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Welcome to the Big Bubble MIAMI. The Big Bubble is edited by Sean McCaughan. Sean was the Founding Editor of Curbed Miami at miami.curbed.com, a position he held for three and a half years, and has written extensively about the real estate, development, architecture, design, art, and culture of South Florida and beyond. You can find more of his writing at seanmccaughan.com. For Big Bubble-related inquiries, you can reach him at sean@thebigbubblemiami.com. For other writing and copywriting inquiries, please email spmccaughan@gmail.com. Thank you.

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Architect Chad Oppenheim Is Selling His Very Minimalist Miami Beach House For A Whopping $33 Million

Chad Oppenheim, whose work we've covered on the Big Bubble before, is an iconic Miami-based contemporary architect known for his extremely minimalist, luxurious, and expensive work. Even a monograph, which is fancy architecture speak for "book," that he put out about his work was big and luscious.

Good News for NE Miami-Dade Rail Service; Could New SW Rail Service Come Someday Too? There’s Talk…

And other South Florida real estate news, including the usual crop of new tower announcements and updates...

Is $3 Million Too Much For This Sexy Modernist New Build in a Weird Miami Neighborhood?

Listed for sale three days ago, this modernist house, with pretty-in-pink walls, concrete breeze blocks, a whole section raised up on piloti, two expansive roof decks, and a teeny tiny pool out back, was literally just completed.

Art Deco G.E. House of the Future Lists in Miami Beach for $5.4 Million

One of Miami Beach's most historic homes, the G.E. House of the Future, built in 1934 by iconic architect Robert Law Weed, but associated with the 1933 Chicago World's Fair, is on the market for $5.390 million, and boy is it a deliciously well-restored art deco gem.

Construction of Downtown Miami’s New Courthouse Looms Ominously Over The Old One

Although construction renderings made it look slightly less ominous, the actual construction of the new Miami-Dade civil courthouse seems to loom over the elegant older courthouse as it gets closer to completion.

Hunky Real Estate Photographer Zachary Balber Secretly Posed Nude in Dozens of Miami Mansions, Including Tommy Hilfiger’s

Between 2013 and 2019, Zachary Balber photographed some of the most bonkers Miami real estate on the market, including some houses and condos that are easily recognizable to somebody who's been writing about this kind of stuff for years.

Miami’s Jungle Island Lights Up The Night With The Luminosa Festival of Lights

After a four-year absence, Luminosa, the festival of lights at Jungle Island, has returned with over a mile of pathways lined with elaborate lit-up installations.

Annexation of Little Gables Stalls; Whole Foods Plans Revived for 19th & Alton

A roundup of news from around South Florida: