BB Garage: A Stealth Bomber Inspired Garage Built for a Serious Car Collection

In Australia, BB Garage takes its cues from an unlikely place: a stealth bomber.

Designed by Architects Ink, the project rethinks the garage as something closer to an aircraft hangar than a place to park cars. The result is a sharply defined, angular structure built to house and move through a serious car collection, anchored by a Ferrari Dino positioned within a double-height volume.

It’s a space where storage gives way to movement, and where the architecture is shaped as much by the cars as the machines that inspired it, a theme that runs through many of our Carchitecture features. But this one's unique.

The brief was clear: improve vehicle circulation, increase storage, and create a space where the collection could be experienced rather than hidden away, an approach that mirrors other projects where the garage becomes a central, lived-in part of the home.

For a client deeply embedded in motorsport, the garage needed to function with the same clarity and intent as the machines it housed. The design draws directly from stealth aircraft, using angular geometry and a compressed form to reduce visual mass while creating a structure that feels fast, deliberate, and tightly controlled.

The influence of both race car engineering and aviation shifts the garage from a place of storage to one of precision, movement, and presence, a mindset shared across other projects shaped by owners with a background in motorsport.

Working within a constrained planning envelope, the architecture takes shape as a black, angular volume that minimizes its visual footprint while maintaining a strong presence.

At its center, a diminishing “nose cone” gesture opens into a double-height space, framing a Ferrari Dino from the 1960s as the focal point of the garage. Positioned within this volume, the car becomes both anchor and reference, its scale and proportions informing the space around it.

Internally, the garage is conceived as a single white volume, allowing the colors and forms of the cars to define the space. The contrast is intentional: architecture recedes so the collection can take prominence.

A suspended mezzanine removes the need for columns, preserving a clear floor for circulation and positioning, an approach echoed in other garages where elevated, glass-enclosed workspaces overlook the collection. Above, the mezzanine functions as a games space, while below, a gloss black ceiling reflects the cars, adding depth, movement, and a shifting visual layer to the interior.

The space is designed to accommodate a serious collection, not just a single showpiece. Multiple vehicles move through the garage with ease, supported by clear circulation paths and an open layout that allows the cars to be experienced from different vantage points.

Cars are not simply parked, but positioned with intent. Movement through the space becomes part of the experience, reinforcing the garage as a place to engage with the collection rather than store it.

A spiral stair, referencing the form of a piston, connects the two levels, reinforcing the mechanical language that runs throughout the project.

At BB Garage, the architecture does not exist independently of the cars. It is shaped by them.

From the proportions of the double-height volume to the uninterrupted floor plane and reflective ceiling, every decision reinforces the presence of the collection. The result is a garage where the cars are not contained within the space, but are central to how the space is understood.