Posts in DESIGN
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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Magazzino Gallery comes to Miami bringing a palm tree: Elisabetta Benassi's "Mimetica" sculpture

"Mimetica" is a large-scale sculpture by Italian contemporary artist Elizabetta Benassi depicting an artificial palm tree. Magazzino explains it is like one of those used to camouflage mobile phone masts within urban and natural landscapes. This camouflage uses natural elements to give a feeling of a real tree, like the fiber for the trunk, while being contrasty mixed with obvious fake plant like materials for the leaves and branches, to give ambiguous feel.

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An installation by Charlap Hyman & Herrero White Rain wraps the trees around Miami Design District this Holiday Season

By: Andre Herrero and Adam Charlap Hyman

> NY\la design + architecture firm [ Charlap Hyman & Herrero]

Named White Rain after the first recorded snow storm in Florida in 1774

Material: Reflective Silver Tinsel 

Wrapped around over 300 Trees

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The Climate Ribbon at Brickell City Centre

Suspended above the pedestrian streets of Brickell City Centre, the Climate Ribbon is far more than an architectural landmark. Designed to respond to Miami's climate through shade, natural ventilation, and rainwater collection, the canopy demonstrates how engineering and architecture can work together to improve the experience of an open air shopping district.

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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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