Design

A Parking Garage That Makes You Want to Keep Hunting for a Space

In Detroit, park your car in 'The Z' and you'll find yourself in a drive-thru art gallery.
Mark Byrnes

In a city known for its stellar street art scene, some of Detroit's most recently painted walls are inside a downtown parking garage.

Since it opened in January, drivers entering The Z, a 10-floor parking structure on Library Street, have been treated to an art show as they scale each slithering floor, designed to replace a series of former surface lots while leaving older neighbors intact.