Architecture – The BIG BUBBLE Miami

Midcentury Miami Shores House With “Panoramic” Loggia Lists For $2.6M

In the heart of Miami Shores, this roomy midcentury modern (a.k.a. “Miami Modern” here) house sprawls over a half-acre lot, and includes a unique breezeway or loggia that encloses a courtyard-like lawn area in the back yard, offering plenty of protected outdoor living space, all for $2.599 million. Located at 500 NE 96th St, and listed a few days ago, the house was built in 1950, and has quite a few original details intact, including terrazzo floors and even the brightly colored tile bathrooms that are so emblematic of the era yet very often torn out.

by Sean McCaughan

Former Site of the Bal Harbour Yacht Club Lists for a Whopping $65 Million

Sadly demolished, the Bal Harbour Yacht Club was a magnificent piece of subtropical modern architecture designed by seminal South Florida architect Alfred Browning Parker, in the heart of the exclusive community of Bal Harbour, Florida. Its just-as-magnificent peninsula site survives, with water on three sides and the underwater rights to the lagoon which that peninsula creates, and is now for sale as a private home site for a whopping $65 million.

by Sean McCaughan

Modernist Miami House With Recording Studio is Asking $1.75 M

This 3,559 square foot mixed-use house, hidden in a corner of Miami’s Shorecrest neighborhood that many people don’t even know exists, comes with a comfortable four bedroom residence above and easily adaptable workspaces below.

by Sean McCaughan

Artefacto Has Begun Construction on a Gigantic New U.S. Flagship Store in Coral Gables

The luxury Brazilian furnishings brand Artefacto, which has long had a big presence in Miami (its owner lives here), had a mini groundbreaking ceremony early this month on its new US flagship store in Coral Gables.

by Sean McCaughan

Innovative Midcentury Mod Miami Shores House is on the Market for $900K

Check out this fabulous, early midcentury modern house designed as the personal residence of Jerome Schilling, an associate to one of Miami’s most interesting and innovative tropical modernist architects, Igor Polevitzky. (Yes, Miami had innovative architecture long before Zaha Hadid’s “Scorpion Tower!”)

by Sean McCaughan

Third Annual Kip’s Bay Decorator Show House Opens in Palm Beach

I recently toured the Kip’s Bay Decorator Show House Palm Beach for Architectural Digest. Here’s my take on this fantastical subtropical oasis.

by Sean McCaughan

Star Island’s $40 Million Yacht Club Mansion is Still on the Market After Three Years

There could be something funky about the house. Certainly the combination of original Med Revival architectural details, and modern-day alterations that don’t quite seamlessly duplicate the quality of the house, might make it look a little off. But this massive $40 million house has stuck on the market for three years more likely because, well, it’s a sluggish market.

by Sean McCaughan

Iconic Miami Architect Kenneth Treister’s Home is For Sale, Although it’s Changed a Bit

Kenneth Treister, one of Miami’s most iconic architects, helped define the subtropical modernist postwar look of many of Miami’s more jungly neighborhoods around Miami. The interior of the Golden Girls set, for example, is reminiscent of a design by Treister or his compatriot Alfred Browning Parker. The living room practically screamed “Kenneth Treister!”

by Sean McCaughan

Midcentury Morningside Ranch Restored by Architect Rene Gonzalez is $998K

This ranch-style house, built in 1949, was extensively restored and renovated by Rene Gonzalez, one of Miami’s most acclaimed architects, first as his personal home and then his architecture office. The house has spectacular details, like the ceiling lights above the entryway, and restored original walnut cabinets rescued from the legendary Palm Bay Club.

by Sean McCaughan

Rather Grand Alfred Browning Parker-Designed House in Miami’s Southern ‘Burbs is Listed for $4 Million

Designed by Alfred Browning Parker, a subtropical modern architect who created some of the most interesting and creative buildings designed around the South Floridian climate, this house in Ponce-Davis has been extensively restored. Having just hit the market a few weeks ago, it’s listed for $3.997 million.