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A Thousand Tears for Miami’s Beloved Friend, Zaha Hadid

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Zaha Hadid, the first woman to win a Pritzker Prize, an internationally renowned architect, and the designer One Thousand Museum, which is currently under construction on Biscayne Boulevard, died today at the age of 65 in Miami. She had contracted bronchitis earlier this week, and suffered a heart attach while being treated in the hospital. The internationally renowned architect had made her mark across the world, with commissions like the Maxxi art museum in Rome and the Olympic Aquatics Center, in London, as well as locally. 

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Pritzker Prize Winning Architect Rafael Moneo Designing Apeiron at the Jockey Club

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Rafael Moneo, with 50 years of international architectural acclaim and a Pritzker under his belt, is designing the planned Apeiron at the Jockey Club. The architect and developers Apeiron Holdings are hoping to bring some of the Jockey Club’s old groove back by building Apeiron on the site of the Club’s long-gone nightclub, said representatives of the project.

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Are High-Design Playrooms the New Frontier of the Amenity Arms Race?

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Some of Miami’s biggest new condo towers are being planned with well-heeled, worldly families in mind, with larger units, more amenities for the kids, and ‘service suits’ to stash the live-in nanny. A few incorporate a theme park’s worth of diversions (think of the soccer field, boxing ring, and jam studio at Paramount Miami Worldcenter or the mini water park, indoor/outdoor playrooms, kid’s gymnasium, and rooftop theater of 1010 Brickell, both under construction) while developers of other buildings are focusing on really tricked-out and designed-up playrooms.

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Inside the Miami Women’s Club’s Bayfront Downtown Ballroom

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The Miami Women’s Club is a petite golden yellow tower at the south end of Margaret Pace Park, standing watch over Biscayne Bay. This Mediterranean Revival structure was designed by August Geiger, one of the great Med Revival architects of Miami’s early years, and opened in 1926. Recently, urban explorer Bullet of abandonedfl.com went inside to photograph the club’s magnificent old ballroom. awaiting its restoration.

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Gary Nader’s Art Museum & Towers Will Include a Theater Designed by Emilio Estefan

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Art collector Gary Nader has been in talks with Miami-Dade College to take over their prime Biscayne Boulevard-facing land on which he wants to build a museum to house his world-renowned Latin American art collection, a hotel, facilities for the college, a theater, a sculpture garden, and two luxury residential towers where units will be designed with art collectors in mind  Mr. Nader has just revealed to Miami Modern Luxury Magazine that the 1,600 seat theater is being designed by the great Emilio Estefan.

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The Full-Size Architectural Mockups of Miami’s Latest Starchitect-Designed Buildings

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Around Miami, substantial new condo buildings by Pritzker Prize-winning-architects are on the rise, each going through similar processes of construction to ensure these often technically complex, creative towers are executed according to the designers’ original vision. One Thousand Museum, by Zaha Hadid, Park Grove by Rem Koolhaas/OMA, and Herzog & de Meuron’s Jade Signature, under construction in Miami boast mockups of facades, balconies, and exoskeletons.

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Inside the First Completed Part of Brickell City Centre, the Akerman Tower

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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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Mary Brickell Village’s Big Bronze Statue of Hercules is Gone

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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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Starchitect Rem Koolhaas’ One Park Grove Debuts New Interior Renders

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One Park Grove, the first and most boffo of the three ultra-luxury Park Grove residential towers designed by Rem Koolhaas in Coconut Grove, has released new interior renderings of the building’s public spaces as well as individual units.

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