Brickell City Centre is one of the largest construction projects in the history of South Florida. The first part of this massive megaproject to be completed, the office tower at Three Brickell City Centre which is being mostly leased by Florida’s largest law firm, Akerman, has just been unveiled by the Brickell City Centre people. And here it is.
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Artist Ginés Serrán’s monumental Union of the World, which at its 2010 installation was allegedly (according to a press release) the world’s largest bronze sculpture, was removed from its site at the front of Mary Brickell Village last week. So, what happened to the 26 foot tall, 17,600 pound hunk of bronze?
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In the annals of urban planning and landscape design, the original ‘Emerald Necklace’ is a string of interconnected parks in Boston designed by Fredrick Law Olmsted that link the old Boston Common with Franklin Park, looping around the city. Rickenbacker Park, a new linear park proposed by architect Bernard Zyscovich, could similarly string together a chain of existing parks and green space along the Rickenbacker Causeway, creating an emerald necklace for Miami that would be South Florida’s own version of Olmsted’s great design.
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Bike Walk Coral Gables is holding its annual Gables Bike Day.
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Miami Today put the Malaysian casino conglomerate Genting Group’s situation at the former Miami Herald Building site succinctly when it said that their redevelopment of that property into the Resorts World Miami has been “in a holding pattern for years” since casino plans on stalled. However, there still appears to be life behind the scenes.
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Akerman, the largest law firm in Florida, is taking possession of the top seven floors, or 80 percent, of the twelve story Three Brickell City Centre at 98 SW 7th Street, which has just received its temporary certificate of occupancy. This officially makes Three Brickell City Centre the first completed section of the Brickell City Centre megaproject.
The construction crew over at One Thousand Museum, starchitect Zaha Hadid‘s Museum Park-adjacent ultra luxury condo tower, are adding a new floor every couple of weeks, and the building’s rather distinctive form has begun to take shape. Sure it’s a form that has been compared to everything from the awe-inspired, to the benign, and to the unprintable, but the design is really quite innovative.
One Thousand Museum’s prefabricated exoskeleton is being shipped over from Dubai in 4,800 pieces, allegedly saving months in construction, as well as completely opening up floor plates by removing interior load-bearing columns while still preserving expansive exterior glass walls.
According to an article last year on Gizmodo, the exoskeleton was originally designed to be purely cosmetic, but evolved into the essential structural form it is, literally holding up the building from the outside. “DeSimone [the building’s structural engineer] figured out a way to make that decorative exoskeleton part of the building’s structural engineering. They’re made out of hollow precast panels (produced in Dubai) that are then filled with cement when they’re installed. It actually is an exoskeleton, just [as] Hadid’s design implied from the beginning.” The 706 foot tower will have 83 units, with no more than two per floor, and plenty of very extravagant amenities like a rooftop aquatic center and custom interior scenting for the public spaces, also designed by Zaha.
This two-story loft at South-of-Fifth’s very expensive and very boutique Ocean House condominium was “inspired by Danish designer Niels Sorensen” according to the broker’s remarks.
Visualizing urban development patterns by age can reveal a lot about the evolution of a city, historically and up to the present day. To state the obvious, historic preservation is a very hot topic in Miami right now. Miami’s most historic neighborhoods are not coincidentally many of its most popular, presenting a need for preservation, a public desire to preserve what makes those neighborhoods special to begin with, and inherent challenges to that preservation. Cities are also built in very different ways than they were in the past. Greater Miami is, of course, no exception to this rule, although development happens a little differently everywhere. By using data from the Miami-Dade Property appraiser, Gridics has mapped urban development across the entire county by decade constructed in shades of blue, allowing patterns of growth to be seen in the data.
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The long-discussed redevelopment of the old Chalks Airlines Miami Seaplane Base on Watson Island is finally moving forward after a rezoning of the southwest corner of Watson Island, where the base currently exists, from its previous zoning as park land. A base in the form of an art deco tower is slated for the site.
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