Strolling through the western side of Downtown Miami (the area between I-95 and Miami Ave), can be quite a disheartening experience. When you envision the center of a city as well known as ours, you picture dense streets full of people and activity, especially in the immediate vicinity of the biggest station (Government Center Station) in the city’s public mass transit...

BY JOHN CHARLES ROBBINS After several years of little to no activity on the Miami Worldcenter project it seems to have come alive in the past eight months. The developers have gained approvals for key parts of the venture, submitted detailed plans for phase one along with a huge hotel and convention center, and ground could be broken early next year. “This is the future...

This is the metal skin that architects have chosen to cover the Met 3 garage with see photo below. ZOM is currently building a 32-story residential tower with 462 units atop the garage. A Whole Foods will also open on the ground floor of the garage. The project name of the residential tower was recently changed to Monarc at Met 3 from Montage at Met 3, with developers stressing...

AIA PARK(ing) Day Design Competition Based on the popular idea of PARK(ing) Day, emerging professionals in the Florida/Caribbean region submit design proposals for up to three parklets. PARK(ing) Day is an annual open-source global event where citizens, artists and activists collaborate to temporarily transform metered parking spaces into “PARK(ing)” spaces: temporary public...

Friday, June 27, 2014, by Sean McCaughan The Angler’s Hotel on Washington Avenue in South Beach is about to triple in size, with a new wing on an adjacent parking lot that will hold twice the number of hotel rooms of the current building cluster of buildings (which only contain 45) reports exMiami. The design, by Nichols Brosch Wurst Wolfe & Associates, is for one...

The Angler’s Hotel, which consistently ranks as one of the best in Miami Beach by Tripadvisor readers, is planning to expand. Plans call for an 84-room addition on a vacant lot next to the existing hotel at 660 Washington Avenue. The hotel currently has just 45 keys and is managed by Kimpton Hotels of San Francisco. Miami’s NBWW is the architect, while San Francisco’s Nicole...

Multi-family: Still King of the Real Estate Jungle! Coral Gables architectural firm, NBWW showcases impressive Met 3 rendering

design and renderings by Coral Gables firm NBWW   Wednesday, June 18, 2014, by Sean McCaughan Along with a submittal to enlarge the Miami Worldcenter special zoning ‘atlas’ (by which we assume they mean ‘area’) to include the Marriott At Miami Worldcenter megahotel and convention center on the former Grand Central Park site, developer MDM Group...

Wednesday, May 7, 2014, by Sean McCaughan That traditional rendering of the Hilton West Palm Beach, a building with eves and towers, is as dead as the Dodo. The Related Group project, in the context of West Palm Beach’s pretty traditional Mediterranean Revival architecture. The architects Nichols Brosch Wurst Wolfe sent over two renderings of the much, more modern design....

See the latest renderings of MET 3 at Metropolitan Miami. Renderings produced by ARX Solutions for ZOM USA.

CAI’s Magazine “Common Ground” discusses the Tequesta site featuring NBWW’s rendering of the ancient discovery and its preservation plan.   CAI: Community Associations Institute: CAI provides information and education to community associations and the professionals who support them.

Wednesday, April 16, 2014, by Sean McCaughan The old historical feud between the Fontainebleau and Eden Roc Hotels that produced the Fontainebleau’s “Spite Wall”, actually called the Versailles Tower, was more or less resolved years ago. The Eden Roc built a new, Spite Wall-proof pool deck and their own tower to hide the wall’s blank whiteness, and they...