Archive for November, 2009
Miami Dade College to Expand Downtown Campus
It looks like Miami Dade College is taking advantage of the economy and looking to build a new building in it’s Wolfson Campus in Downtown Miami. According to the Miami Today News, the school plans to add a 110,000 square-foot building on a college owned parcel currently occupied by a basketball court. The site is [...]
Win a Copy of the South Florida Design Book
Urban City Architecture is proud to announce that the South Florida Design Book, a local design publication in association with AIA Miami, will be sponsoring the Online Student Design Exhibit here on the site.
Change or Sink – Drastic Changes to Transit Needed
When I think about transit, it really gets me thinking of how much work Florida has ahead of itself. Today Florida is an autocentric, unsustainable and unhealthy landscape that is destroying the natural environment and contributing to its own demise. Few people ride transit, everyone drives everywhere, and sprawl has continued unabated. All one has to do is look at [...]
Crosswalk Pattern For Brickell Avenue
The other day I was forwarded the new and approved crosswalk design/pattern for the Brickell Avenue streetscape remake scheduled soon.
Walk Miami – The Crosswalk Zigzag on Biscayne
As Downtown Miami continues to attract more residents and visitors, it is important to ensure that intersections and streets have properly designed and highly visible crosswalks, as well as complementary traffic calming devices. Unfortunately, current conditions across many of the intersections in downtown show a very different situation. Intersections lack a consistent use of marked crosswalks or other safety features across intersections with high levels of pedestrian traffic. Intersection might have a crosswalk across one side of the street, but not on the opposing side — in many cases four way intersections crosswalks across all four streets. In other intersections, crosswalks are completely non existent, fading, or incomplete across both lanes of traffic.
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Nichols Brosch Wurst Wolfe & Associates Receive Award
MIAMI (November 18, 2009) – Miami-based architectural firm Nichols Brosch Wurst Wolfe & Associates (NBWW) recently received the first-place Eagle Award by the Central Florida Chapter of Associated Builders and Contractors, Inc. (ABC) in the category of “Historic Preservation Projects over $100 million dollars.” The firm, which competed in ABC’s 2009 Excellence in Construction Awards [...]
Airport City at Miami International Airport
In response to a request, Odebrecht Construction and other partners (including Zyscovich Architects) have released plans for a new commercial and medical development in association with FIU’s College of Medicine in and around the airport called Airport City at Miami International Airport. The development hopes to work with the synergy of new and existing airport/transportation infrastructure, connecting [...]
Allan Shulman Lecture – Miami Modern Metropolis
Architect and Professor Allan Shulman, FAIA will give an overview/lecture of his new book titled Miami Modern Metropolis: Paradise and Paradox in Mid Century Architecture and Planning on November 19, 2009 at 6 pm. The event will take place at the University of Miami School of Architecture.
Zyscovich Architects New Images for Synagogue In Brickell
A few months ago, there were reports that a new synagogue was coming to Brickell / Downtown Miami. New images of the Zyscovich Architects designed synagogue have been released as the new institution moves into a capital campaign and one step closer to becoming a reality.
Miami Music Festival
There is a new music festival coming to Downtown Miami with more than 600 performances on 25 stages throughout the clubs, bars, and venues of Downtown Miami / Brickell. The Miami Music Festival is coming to the streets of downtown from December 10-12. This is no ordinary music festival taking place at a park or arena though, this event will be intertwined within the streets, bars and venues of the city over the span of a couple of days.
Max Strang Architecture Expands to Colorado
In what could only be described as a bold move, especially in this market, Miami architecture firm Max Strang Architecture announced that it will open a second office in Telluride, Colorado later this year to work with commercial and residential clients who embrace the firm’s award-winning “Environmental Modernism” style.
AAA 32 – The Miami Special Edition
For anybody that has not checked it out, the architecture magazine Archivos de Arquitectura Antillana came out with a special edition issue on Miami a few months ago. Issue 32, the Miami Special Edition, covers a nice range of new buildings in the city. The magazine highlights many of Miami’s established and young architecture firms and includes floor [...]
Max Strang Lecture
Local Miami architect Max Strang will be speaking at the University of Miami on the topic of Environmental Modernism. The lecture is on November 17th at 6pm and is free. It is located at the UM School of Architecture Jorge M. Perez Architecture Center. 1 CE credit is available for those who attend.
