The Residences by Armani Casa, which is already over half reserved, has just unveiled its brand-spanking-new $10 million sales center complete with a duplicate of the $1 billion project’s best penthouse (which itself is on sale for $15 million).
Tag: Architecture & Design
Coral Gables Coral Rock Classic is Listed for $1.696 Million
Before the City of Coral Gables was anything else, it was a gabled house faced in the local stone known as coral rock but more precisely called oolitic limestone, on a farm. That house, owned by city founder George Merrick, inspired the construction of a number of others in the same distinctive rock in those early days. This house, built in 1925 at 3903 Granada Boulevard, and now on the market for $1.696 million is one of those.
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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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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.
In South Beach, an Historic Home is Being Adapted to Retail With a New ‘Vitrine’ Facade
A small single-family home at 909 Collins Avenue, right in the thick of South Beach, is being adaptively reused as a retail space with the addition of a glassy, vitrine-like space in the house’s front yard — literally encasing the old facade in glass almost like an historic reliquary and creating a vaulted front space — and a two story retail addition in the back yard.
Check Out These Four Adorable Buildings for Sale in South Beach
There is an allure to owning a quaint little apartment building, making friends with all your tenants, keeping up with building gossip, getting involved in each others lives, lowning sweet old Mrs. Dixie over in 2A a cup of sugar, that sort of thing. Places like that are probably more common in sitcoms (On I Love Lucy, the Mertzes were the landlords and best friends of the Ricardos, and hilarity ensued) and romantic comedies staring Meg Ryan, but hey, that’s not saying the real life version isn’t impossible.
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Miami’s Most Iconic Architectural Style and the Annual Art Deco Weekend Poster
Art Deco Weekend, the annual festival celebrating that eponymous architectural style, Miami Beach’s (and Miami’s) great collection of deco architecture, and a lot of kitschy Miami history, is here again.
The deco love fest runs through the weekend, complete as always, with an official poster, a street fair on Ocean Drive, lectures, events, and lots of loud, retro clothing making rare appearances from the backs of closets across Miami. The festival’s deco-inspired posters, which are always original artistic creations, show just how much Miami’s perception of its own unique variety of 1930s and ’40s art deco has changed over the years, and even year to year… in effect showing how versatile and ingenious those old designs — think of the Coast Guard Station in Lummus Park or a streamline modernist house designed for indoor-outdoor subtropical living — are themselves.
