Posts in ARCHITECTURE
San Miguel de Allende Named Best City in Mexico for 4th Straight Year by Travel + Leisure Readers in 2019 World's Best Awards' Rankings

Today, San Miguel de Allende is home to more than 80 hotels, including 30 boutique properties, two hotels approved by the Virtuoso network of travel advisors and two Design Hotels properties. The city also boasts 70 restaurants, three golf courses and dozens of spas and art galleries. San Miguel de Allende is truly a cultural city with something to offer for everything.

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It’s fragile, feminine, nourished by intuition, ambiguity . . . and a lot of anxiety. Words by Rudy Ricciotti describing The Jean Cocteau Museum in Menton

The Jean Cocteau Museum in Menton was designed by the Algerian born architect Rudy Ricciotti. It plays a very beautiful game with the sun in the summer creating a bold shadow symphony by the ocean.

"Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious" -Jean Cocteau

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This Moorish Revival home with Jerusalem stone floors and antique stained glass windows, sits tight in Coconut Grove

The house was sold in an auction for $6M in May of  2016

Moorish Revival is a rare mode of exotic revival architecture. It is usually characterized by the use of horseshoe arches, multifoil arches, and window tracery

The home has 30-ft vaulted ceiling, Jerusalem stone floors and antique stained glass windows throughout.

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A quick look inside “Centro” lofts in Downtown Miami

Live in the heart of downtown, at Centro Lofts. Feel the street at your feet

Life moves beyond the commute. Drive time is replaced with walk time. When you live at the epicenter of a vibrant downtown, you can walk in any direction and find places to explore, shop, dance, work, lounge, drink, or eat. And, when you do need to leave your urban enclave, public transportation is conveniently nearby, or you can head downstairsThe sand, surf, and whole of Miami are all just minutes away.

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Wynwood will now have a huge parking garage. The neighborhood is growing, as expected 👍 👍

Address: 2660 NW 3rd Ave, Miami, FL 33127

Parking Spaces: 428

Stories: 8

Use: Mixed-Use [parking, retail + office]

Architect of Record: Wolfberg Alvarez + Partners

Facade Architect: Faulders Studio

Developer: Goldman Properties LLC

Construction: KVC Constructors

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The Design District's funky new parking garage is almost ready 🤘; bringing 5 spectacular facades to the neighborhood 🌈

The parking garage’s facade is collaboration between, Work Architecture Company (WORKac), K/R Keenen Riley Architects, Clavel Arquitectos, J. Mayer H.; and Nicolas Buffe. All working under the direction of Terence Riley of K/R Architects 

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10 Farnsworth

Located in the heart of Boston’s Fort Point Channel Landmark district, CBT’s design of 10 Farnsworth emerged from the desire to create a building that both acknowledges the neighborhood’s industrial past and celebrates its modern identity. The result is a six-story, 30,000-square-foot residential building that marries traditional building form with contemporary material expression, resulting in an elegant addition to one of Boston’s most historic districts. The design completes the streetscape with ground-level retail wrapping the corner of the block and a 40-foot long original art wall, created by a local artist.

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From San Fran to SoFlo, Blue Bottle opens new coffee place in the City View parking garage

San Francisco based coffee shop opens its first Florida location in Miami's Design District

Location: City View Parking Garage by architectural firms Iwamoto Scott & Leong Leong

3818 NE 1st Ave
Miami, FL 33137

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City View Parking garage has two facades that follow the late Morris Lapidus' style. By using a modern kind of Brise-Soleil

Like many other architectural designs in Miami, the use of Brise-Soleil as a building’s facade, serves to cater to our tropical climate. Morris Lapidus was one of the pioneers of this design element in Florida. The recently opened Nike in Lincoln Road has a beautiful Brise-Soleil Facade by Touzet Studio

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