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Brooks + Scarpa wraps Florida sports complex building in concrete shell

January 30, 2024 Ben Dreith 0

California architecture studio Brooks + Scarpa has created a central structure for a sports complex in Florida with a sloped concrete shell designed to “make a spectacle of rainfall”. The Field House at Pompano Beach’s Youth Sports Complex is a 4,100-square-foot (380-square-metre) structure that holds concessions and offices for the surrounding sports fields. It also

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“Miami’s slow-motion infrastructure meltdown is already apparent”

January 10, 2024 Ian Volner 0

Art Basel Miami and Design Miami should step up to help address the infuriating congestion that blights Miami art week, writes Ian Volner. Several Miami art weeks ago, some marketing wiz at Uber got it into their head to launch a one-time-only promotional gimmick. During the annual culturefest in South Florida, app users could summon

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Foster + Partners references “Florida’s vernacular architecture” for The Alton in Miami

December 6, 2023 Kate Donaldson 0

British studio Foster + Partners has revealed its design for The Alton, a mixed-use development with a concrete structure that will draw on the surrounding architecture of Miami Beach, Florida. Set to be built at an intersection with the famed shopping street Lincoln Road, the building will integrate fluted colonnades and landscaped balconies extending the length of

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Giant novelty structures at Disney hotel captured in Arnau Rovira Vidal photos

October 16, 2023 Nat Barker 0

Disney’s weird and nostalgic Pop Century Resort hotel in Florida has been captured by Arnau Rovira Vidal in this photography series. Rovira’s Fantasia Resorts photography project pictures holidaymakers and workers among the fantastical, retro-themed structures at the entertainment conglomerate’s Walt Disney World near Orlando. Opened in 2003, the 2,880-room hotel is themed on American pop

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Renzo Piano to design cultural centre for South Florida

September 6, 2023 Ellen Eberhardt 0

Italian architect Renzo Piano has been selected to design an expansive arts and culture centre for Boca Raton, Florida. To be located in downtown Boca Raton, The Center for Arts and Innovation (The Center) will serve as a community space and welcome centre and contain performance and event spaces, an innovation incubator lab for “entrepreneurial

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Zaha Hadid Architects to replace collapsed Surfside condo in Miami

June 14, 2023 Ben Dreith 0

UK studio Zaha Hadid Architects has unveiled designs for a luxury condominium with a glass-bottomed swimming pool in Surfside, Florida, on the site of a structure that collapsed in 2021. Zaha Hadid Architects unveiled two possible designs for the site, commissioned by developer DAMAC International, which purchased the land in 2022. Renderings of the design show

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HOK designs mirrored “stadium of the future” for Jacksonville Jaguars

June 7, 2023 Ben Dreith 0

Architecture studio HOK has unveiled the planned renovation of the National Football League stadium in Jacksonville, USA, which would cover the existing building with a fritted dome. The studio will expand the current program of the stadium by wrapping it in sinuous, reflective cladding and covering it in a see-through “membrane”. The team has referred to

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Tampa “about to explode” as a destination, says Edition hotels founder Ian Schrager

March 3, 2023 Dan Howarth 0

American entrepreneur Ian Schrager’s hospitality group The Edition has opened the first five-star hotel in Tampa, Florida, which includes a “jungle” lobby and a party room with 350 disco balls. The Tampa Edition, which started taking bookings in October 2022, is housed in a new 26-storey building that includes 172 rooms and 38 private residences.

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Clerestory Windows Invite The Light Into This Modern Home In Miami

January 23, 2023 Erin 0

SDH Studio Architecture + Design has designed a modern home in Miami, Florida, that features clerestory windows, allowing plenty of sunshine to fill the home. A series of floating concrete steps lead across a pond and guide visitors to the front door. Floor-to-ceiling windows provide a glimpse of the interior. In the living room, dining […]

Strang Design tops Miami mansion with slatted volume and planter

January 19, 2023 Kate Mazade 0

Local studio Strang Design has created a contemporary residence with a garden terrace in Miami, Florida, complete with Brazilian influences and vintage touches. The studio, which specializes in projects along Florida’s vast coastline dedicated to “environmental modernism”, completed the expansive, 8,500-square foot (2,590-square meter) house – known as the Angel Oaks Residence – in 2021.

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