Breaking Ground 2027

gar·age·op·o·lis

noun \ gə-ˌräzh-ˈä-pə-ləs \

plural garageopolises; also garageopoles

Origin garage (French garer, to shelter) + -opolis (Greek pólis, city). First known use: 2026, Bath, Ohio.

  1. 1a city founded for machines; a settlement of motorcycles and cars with a permanent population of two bedrooms, so its founder never has to leave
  2. 2a brutalist structure of poured concrete, black steel, and glass, set into a wooded hillside, in which a collection is kept on display rather than in storage
  3. 3the only known cure for a garage that is too small

Synonyms garagedominium (archaic). Antonyms the shed. Not to be confused with a mechanic's shop.

In a sentence “Don't have the garageopolis yet.”

Garageopolis at dusk: the expanded upper level, two-thirds on the building and one-third cantilevered, office on the left and bedroom on the right above the lit showroom of cars and motorcycles. Insets of the daylight approach and the office-and-bedroom mezzanine looking down on the cars.
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Garageopolis at twilight under an orange sky: the black L-shaped barndo with its glass car gallery and a bay of motorcycles, the gravel loop drive and the lit 44333 sign in the foreground.
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Garageopolis pushed back on the two-acre site, seen from the lawn in daylight and again at dusk, the showroom lit around the circular gravel drive.
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Garageopolis at blue hour: the L-shaped automotive gallery with glass bays of cars on the left and red motorcycles under the bay on the right. Insets of the daylight approach and the polished-concrete showroom interior with bikes on a plinth.
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Garageopolis at dusk with the cantilevered upper suite over a sheltered motorcycle workshop. Insets of the cantilever close up and three motorcycles in the indoor-outdoor workshop by the passage to the woods.
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Garageopolis close up at dusk: motorcycles racked on the wall beside a red and a silver sports car, the lounge, bar and pool table open to the lawn and gravel drive.
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The original Garageopolis concept in concrete, glass and black metal, by day and by night across a wet concrete apron, motorcycles and cars under the lit bays.
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