Amid Miami’s recent construction boom, we have failed to take note of how many famous architects have designed projects in our own backyard. From Cesar Pelli’s performing arts center to a new performance hall for the New World Symphony on Miami Beach by Frank Gehry. World renown architects are leaving their mark on the Miami Skyline (similar to the 80’s when I.M. Pei and Skidmore Owings and Merrill, left there respective buildings; the Bank of America and Wachovia Financial Centers.) Miami based architects have even gained some national attention including Arquitectonica and Chad Oppenheim.
We’re doing it big down here in the Magic City. We realize that our building boom isn’t just about adding density and urban life to our city, but, about adding substance, culture, and art through new architectural designs. Our skyline will continue to define the ‘Magic City’ as new and innovative skyscrapers continue to rise (hopefully, in a well planned, organized manner), such as Enrique Norten’s Flatiron building pictured above. In Miami, the sky is the limit, well, unless the FAA imposes some new meaningless restrictions on upcoming developments…
Want to talk about big?
How about MET Miami designed by Nichols Brosch Wurst Wolfe and RTKL… MET 3 looks to be about 866 feet tall!
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The only building that is interesting from an artistic point of view is this new Flat Iron building. Love it.
The rest of the junk is visual polution. I look out my window everyday and see this ugly monster.
One Broadway. The developer should be sentenced to 5 years hard labor in
art school. His new venture opposite the 4 Seasons… looks like an ugly block long wall of glass.