Last week the City of Miami Beach painted the bicycle lane on 16th Street green, a move that should make the lane more visible to motorists and safer for bicyclists.
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Residences by Armani Casa Officially Launches Sales in Sunny Isles Beach
The Residences by Armani/Casa project in Sunny Isles Beach officially took the top off its sales center with a big ol’ launch party Miami-style last night. The project is being designed by big-deal architect Cesar Pelli of Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects, and interiors are by Armani/Casa, with Giorgio Armani’s sleek, cool, modern look slathered absolutely everywhere. Enzo Enea is doing the landscape architecture.
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FDOT Proposes to Bury I-395 and Biscayne Boulevard on Top of Each Other
An idea that has been floating around for a whilte, to bury both I-395 and Biscayne Boulevard in a part of Downtown Miami, has just gotten the look-over by the Florida Department of Transportation, which prepared a report on the feasability on their version of the plan. That version would only bury a few blocks of I-395, replacing the ‘signature bridge’ which FDOT is currently planning, as well as the bloicks from the northern edge of Museum Park to the opposite side of the Arsht Center, actually widdening Biscayne in front of the park to accomodate extra lanes leading to a local road and traffic circle above.
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Car2go Pulling Out of Miami Due to Not-Great Ridership and High Taxes
Just two days after ride-sharing service Uber won a big victory in Miami-Dade County, another service, Car2go, has decided to suspend their operations in South Florida, according to an email to members. This will take effect on March 1st, just under a month and a half from now.
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Claiming your project will have the ‘next Lincoln Road’ is a popular pasttime among Miami developers. Craig Robins has said that the Miami Design District’s Paseo Ponti will be Lincoln Road meets Bal Harbour Shops. The Related Group’s plan to pedestrianize South Miami Avenue through Brickell is modeled after Lincoln Road, with its mix of shops and restaraunts. Miami Worldcenter’s pedestrian streets have already been described as copies of Lincoln Road, while the planned Mall at Miami Worldcenter, now that it has been converted from a traditional enclosed mall to an exterior pedestrian mall, sounds even more Lincoln Road-ish than ever.
Historic Photos Show the Transformation of Downtown Miami’s Skyline Through History
Centered on miles of condo towers stretching up and down Biscayne Bay, the Downtown Miami skyline visible today is an incredibly recent creation. For almost forty years the tallest tower in Florida was the Dade County Courthouse, a 28 story granite monument of a building on Flagler Street and NW 1st Avenue.
Arquitectonica’s Iconic Babylon Towers Declared Unsafe, at Risk of Being Replaced by Condos
The Babylon Towers, an iconic pair of postmodernist ziggurats on Brickell Bay Drive designed by Arquitectonica in the late ’70s/ early ’80s could be demolished and replaced by a condo tower with up to 184 units, if its owners, Babylon International, get their way.
Classic Alfred Browning Parker-ish House in the Grove Can be Had for $2.5 Million
This absolutely gorgeous, and very subtropical modern house at 3667 Park Lane in Coconut Grove, just off Biscayne Bay, has been on the market since September and is listed at $2.49 million. We don’t know the identity of the architect for certain, but Alfred Browning Parker, one of the lions of Miami architecture who designed in this style, is a distinct possibility.
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Babylon Towers. Photo via Arquitectonica
All Aboard Florida, eat your heart out. Although the passenger rail system’s proposal to construct a 991 foot tower (1,000 above sea level) at its currently-under-construction MiamiCentral Terminal in Downtown MIami has reportedly been approved by the Federal Aviation Administration, that’s certainly not the first giant train station/tower to be planned for the site.
Visualizing the Booms & Busts of Miami Development Through History
Miami real estate is well known for its boom-and-bust cycles of growth. This is a metropolitan area notorious for wild land speculation, for disreputable hucksters selling naive Northerners plots of the Everglades that are still underwater, and for calamitous real estate collapses when the next hurricane hits or foreign capital dries up. Each boom also leaves a distinct architectural layer on the city, making them readily observable to the trained eye. Gridics data breaks down these trends, both architectural and market, in fascinating detail.
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