Located on the same street as another interesting house recently featured on the Big Bubble, is this modernist home on the Little River that's a little bit different than many of the other white box modernist houses you see in Miami these days.
A modest and unassuming Art Deco bungalow, on one of San Marino Island's landlocked blocks away from the island's vast bayfront villas, has just hit the market for the not-unassuming price of almost three million dollars.
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.
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.
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.
Even though Palm Beach is a bastion of old money and old-world wealth, its oldest buildings are barely over a hundred years in age, when Henry Flagler brought his railroad to the undeveloped barrier island and built the Royal Poinciana Hotel in 1894. But not long after that, this house was built.
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.
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.
A simple but adorable, and very sensitively renovated, house by iconic subtropical modernist architect Alfred Browning Parker has been on the market for about four months in Coconut Grove for just over two million dollars.
