For those of you that saw Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol (if you haven’t yet, you totally should because there’s some great Aether jackets in it), this is the multi-layered automated parking structure that served as the inspiration for the film’s final fight scene.  There are actually two of these car silos located at the Volkswagen  Autostadt visitor center in Wolfsburg Germany. Each tower is sixteen stories of glass and steal, and serviced by two hydraulically controlled moving platforms. In addition to being a phenomenal tourist draw, the towers function as temporary storage for customers picking up their cars from the factory. Cars coming from the adjacent factory assembly line are carried by conveyor belt through a subterranean tunnel to the base of each tower and then hoisted into a preassigned storage slot.  When customers comes to pick up their car, the automated arm zips up and retrieves it.  This combination of art and engineering will definitely not be coming to Detroit any time soon.

[via Design Boom]