South Beach – The BIG BUBBLE Miami

Inside Starchitect Jean Nouvel’s Monad Terrace, Which Just Topped Off in South Beach

Monad Terrace, famed French architect Jean Nouvel’s first project in Miami, has just topped off, and the Big Bubble got a hard hat tour of the boutique luxury condo project’s construction site with architect Kobi Karp, who collaborated with Nouvel on the project. Check it out, below.

Multifamily House Off Lincoln Road Has Owner’s Suite Upstairs & Lush Urban Garden Out Back

A large mediterranean revival house converted into stylish apartments, a half a block from Lincoln Road, in the heart of South Beach but still in a mainly residential area, is on the market for $3,050,000.

by Sean McCaughan

Painter Chuck Close Lists His South Beach Condo at the Setai for $4.1 Million

The renowned painter Chuck Close has listed his two bedroom, two bath condo on the 25th floor of the Setai in Miami Beach for $4.1 million. The artist isn’t going anywhere though. He’s just downsizing, and will occupy one of the two other condos he owns in the building, which he currently uses as a studio and guest quarters. Unit 2506 is listed by agent Marjory Dressler

by Sean McCaughan

Miami’s Ten Most Spectacular Rooftop Bars, Restaurants, and Lounges

When you’re in the mood for an exciting nightcap, a dinner with a view, or a party in the clouds, try out one of these urban hotspots in Miami. These are Miami’s ten most spectacular rooftop bars, restaurants, and lounges.

by Sean McCaughan

Late Starchitect Zaha Hadid’s Miami Condo Has Sold for $5.75M

The dearly departed grand dame of contemporary architecture, Zaha Hadid, was a big fan of Miami. The internationally renowned architect of the currently-under-construction One Thousand Museum in Downtown Miami loved Miami so much she had a vacation home here, where she spent a lot of time before her untimely death at Mount Sinai Medical Center in Miami Beach (yes, she even died here).

by Sean McCaughan

Inside the Almost-Complete Miami Beach Convention Center

The Miami Beach Convention Center renovation, designed by Fentress Architects (lead architect), Arquitectonica (facade and associate architect), and West 8 (landscape architect) is finally nearing completion, in time for Art Basel Miami Beach this year. The architects released photographs of the completed portions of the transformed convention center, giving an inside and outside hint at what to expect. Elements like the rooftop ballroom, the West 8-designed park, and the grand west lobby are still in the works.

by Sean McCaughan

How Scents Are Enhancing the Experiences of Some of Miami’s Greatest Buildings

Smell is the ignored sense of architecture, so to speak. While the way a building looks and handles sound (soundproofing, for example), and how the materials used to build it feel are all greatly considered, the experience of smell is often overlooked.

by Sean McCaughan

The Wolfsonian Announces its First Major Art Deco Exhibition

The Wolfsonian-FIU Museum, which has an extensive Art Deco collection has announced something everybody probably assumed it did years ago, its first-ever major Art Deco exhibition. Check it out.

by Sean McCaughan

Famous Designer Karim Rashid is Selling His South Beach Pied-a-Terre

Internationally renowned designer Karim Rashid, king of the candy-colored woggle-shaped everything, has put his South Beach vacation place on the market for $589,000. The two bedroom condo, believe it or not, is actually designed in a more subdued version of Rashid at full flower. Yet it’s still deliciously ‘him.’ Here are lots of pictures, plus what the brokerbabble has to say:

by Sean McCaughan

Inside the New Roofless Japanese Peruvian Restaurant on Lincoln Road, CHOTTO MATTE MIA

Photos via Chotto Matte Mia