Real Estate, Travel & Culture Across South Florida
Miami Beach’s high stakes real estate market can sometimes put older, architecturally significant houses in jeopardy due to the market’s demand for the newest, the biggest, and the most tricked out. This makes the preservation and restoration of older houses on the brink of demolition all the more significant.
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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.
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Kobi Karp Architecture & Interior Design has broken ground on the first residential building of the Dania Pointe megaproject, a mixed-use urban infill development in the heart of Dania Beach, according a press release from the architect. The project is located adjacent to the Design Center of the Americas and the Bass Pro Shop.
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The penthouse at the top of 600 Coral Way, the Segovia Tower, is something to behold—if not for its beauty, at least for its over-the-top audacity. The amount of faux finish used on the walls alone is something to behold.
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Miami-based architect Chad Oppenheim has designed work around the world. Oppenheim’s new book portrays his work as minimalist to the extreme. A beach house looks out over a luscious minimalist ocean view to one side and a palm tree-blanketed opening to the other. Both are framed by the building’s aperture as boxes of green and blue.
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Ain’t it fancy?
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I’m not sure if it’s historic or not, but this arabic-inspired courtyard house in Coral Gables is still pretty dang gorgeous. Located at 5538 San Vincente Street, it’s on the market for $1.65 million. They don’t build classy, courtyard houses like this that often anymore. The brokerbabble is a little over the top though.
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Aventura Mall’s huge new wing, designed by architect Carlos Zapata, opened recently. The expansion, which includes two stories of retail and a third containing a food hall, is impressive at almost any scale. It’s also the most design-driven part of the mall, with dramatic architecture, soaring ceilings, a towering art slide in the open-ended courtyard.
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This classic Coconut Grove house was built in 1910 for an original Grove family the Peacocks, according to the brokerbabble. It looks like it’s had quite the swanky re-do that will guarantee its preservation. Sure, it’s missing its old bathrooms and some of the original details, but many of the others have been saved, including that sensational atrium.
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Here’s a little construction milestone for ya. Hyde Beach House, the last section of the little cluster of mostly-Hyde-branded condominium projects straddling the Hallandale Beach/Hollywood Beach border developed by the Related Group, has reached fifty percent completion and is eighty percent sold out, according to a publicist for the project.
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