NEIGHBORHOOD: Miami-Dade County

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.

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.

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.

Ximena Caminos, one of the creative masterminds of the Faena Hotel, and ex-wife of hotel owner Alan Faena, restored this pink Miami Beach house, making it her home base at the time.

$75 million houses used to be rare in Miami. Heck, they used to be rare everywhere, and they're still rare in a lot of places. But in Miami, they're seemingly all over the place.

Shenandoah, that neighborhood that's half Little Havana and The Roads, is fun, and central, and very Miami in all its idiosyncrasies.

Built-in 1925, this almost-one-hundred-year-old cottage deep in the old-growth hammocks of Coconut Grove, is in impressively original condition considering its age.

You know that crazy penthouse in India that looks more like a mansion plopped on the roof of a building than an actual penthouse? Well, here's a Miami version.

This great big Spanish Mediterranean palazzo in Miami's Ponce-Davis neighborhood was built in 2007, which isn't all that old for a house really, and much more recently renovated to highly polished, pristine perfection before being put on the market about a week ago.

A variety of vintage postcards of Miami Beach, found in the Flickr collections of two avid postcard collectors Phillip Pessar and More_Than_Sunshine, show a side of Miami Beach as seen from the sidewalk, the street, or even the curb.