By recording ten years of Flickr photo geotags and drawing lines between them, Mapmaker Eric Fischer has used the Flickr API to create The Geotagger’s World Atlas, a beautiful map of the most photographed places in the world. Aside from comparing global cities (the map of London is a beauty), his map shows what Flickr users find most interesting about Miami through clusters of lines.
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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.
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.
This cutie-patootie of a house on Miami Beach’s iconic Pine Tree Drive just hit the market in December for $4.85 million. Built in 1940, the house’s bones are full of art deco charm, including corner windows, some fabulous terrazzo, and coffered ceilings.
The 3-bedroom, 3-bath, 3,350 square feet house has been sensitively updated, and also has sort of a wrap-around pool with stepping stone things that kind of form an island in the middle of it. And if it may be said, the furniture is also very nice. The broker’s remarks say the house has a “prestige location at the end of the street,” which is a rather nice way of saying it’s one lot in from busier Alton Road. Prestige? Well, ok.
There’s a famous old real estate saying, ‘Buy land, they’re not making any more of it.’ However true or not this may actually be, replace ‘land’ with ‘single family houses in Miami’ and you’re in the money. Miami has run out of room for single family homes, condos dominate the residential real estate market by a long shot, and a good one, especially with character, history, and flair, is priceless.
A really great, classic Miamian house from the earlier decades of the 20th century, beautifully restored, and tintilatingly decorated with eclectic modern art, and modern and vintage interiors, is on the market for $6.45 million. Located at 251 E. San Marino Drive, the house’s relatively modest 3,000 square feet-or-so size puts the house at risk of being replaced by one much larger, which is almost the norm in Miami Beach these days. It comes with sunny green shutters, bright living areas, a fabulous pool patio, a curving staircase, a fireplace, and even an original pink tile bathroom with a flamingo theme.
