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

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Sean McCaughan
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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. And now, Mr. Oppenheim has listed his longtime Miami Beach home, which he calls Villa Allegra, for $33 million. The 6,000-square-foot waterfront home is unbelievably serene, with six bedrooms, seven baths, a Raymond Jungles-designed yard, a couple of docks, and, well… that’s all the listing description actually says, beyond stuff like “Transcending style, this waterfront villa celebrates the perfection of proportion, scale, materiality, and detail.” Translation: the real estate agent thinks the place is well designed, and wants really rich people to agree. Luckily, it is gorgeous, and by a great architect, so we’ll agree with that too.

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

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

Feature image is an interior press photo of Delilah, in Brickell.

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

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Sean McCaughan
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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. The house has four bedrooms, five baths, and an undisclosed number of square feet, which honestly isn’t all that comforting. The thing is the house is listed for $3,250,000 and although very centrally located, is in kind of an odd little neighborhood, surrounded by everything from big waterfront estates across the street to skeezy apartments across the alley out back, to a fire station a couple of blocks away, and even a few restaurants on nearby 79th Street. Yes, it is a rather cool neighborhood and very Miami, but whether it’s a nice enough residential neighborhood to command over three million dollars on a tight inland site is up for debate. What do you think Miami?

Happy Art Basel; There’s a Cafe in an Airplane in Brickell

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Sean McCaughan
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And other news:

Feature image is development coming to Coral Gables’ Aurora Street

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

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Sean McCaughan
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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. The history of the 1934 G.E. House of the Future is quite fascinating, but unfortunately, I can’t find much online to link to. I know it’s in a book I have in a box somewhere, which I can’t really get to right now. There was a version of the house that was actually built in Chicago which still exists as well, called the Florida Tropical House, but this is that house’s overlooked younger, and larger, sibling. If anyone can fill us all in on the rest, please do. Until then, here we are.

I’m sharing it because it’s an art deco dream anyway, and great real estate eye candy. Located at 5959 La Gorce Drive, the 4,400-square-foot house has five bedrooms, five baths, lots of sunny terrace space, a pool with little statues that double as fountains, and a sunny multipurpose-type room, which could easily be an office or conference room, with 20-foot ceilings and its own entrance. The house last sold in 2004 for $1.2 million, so we can easily say that even with the cost of the renovations they made, the owners, who obviously love this place, will make a handsome return on their investment.

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

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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. Sited across a narrow street, on a narrow site with no setback, the courthouse reminds one of the often overwhelming bureaucracy of the government swallowing up everything in its wake, when it really should take a backseat to the historic older structure. But it doesn’t. Designed by HOK, and being built by a private developer for the county, blame for this modernist carbuncle might just be put on the county itself, for picking such a horrible site for the new building, although with all that concrete it doesn’t seem like the architects did much to lessen the load, so to speak. At least an all-glass facade would have made the building meld into the background a little bit more by reflecting the sky around it.

Starchitect Kengo Kuma Coming to the Design District; Tri-Rail Service is Finally Coming to Downtown Miami In A Few Weeks

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And other South Florida news:

Featured image is a rendering of the outdoor gym at Society Wynwood

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

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Sean McCaughan
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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. There are luxurious spreads on Fisher Island, the elevator landings of Icon Brickell, the signature blue-and-white tiles of the Mondrian South Beach, and even, yes, Tommy Hilfiger’s former living room in Golden Beach, with psychedelic interiors designed by Martyn Lawrence Bullard. And while the brokers who were escorting him through these homes he was hired to photograph were briefly in the other room or maybe yelling at their assistants on the phone, Balbar would pull his pants down, or perhaps take off his shirt, or even sprawl in somebody else’s bed, fully in the buff, and take a picture of himself doing something sexy. Holding on to the pictures until the statute of limitations ran out, so he couldn’t get in trouble with the law, Mr. Balber is presenting a show of all 150 photos, on view at Art Media Gallery in Little River until February of next year.

Tommy Hilfiger’s Living Room

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

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Sean McCaughan
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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. Themes include Chinese lanterns, the underwater city of Atlantis, Latin America (including Dios de los Muertos) and massive, elaborate animals. The festival opened last night and runs through early next year. Check out photos of many of the installations, here.

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

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Sean McCaughan
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A roundup of news from around South Florida:

Feature image is rendering of Whole Foods proposed for Alton Road

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