Miami Modern (MIMO) Architecture
Miami Modernist Architecture or better known as MiMo, is a style of architecture from the 1950s and 1960s that originated in Miami, Florida as a resort vernacular unique to Miami and Miami Beach. It was a popular response to the various modernist and post world war architectural movements that were taking place in other parts of the world, adding glamour, fun, and material excess to otherwise stark, minimalist, and efficient styles. Miami Modernism was heavily concentrated in Middle and Upper Miami Beach along Collins Avenue, as well as, along the Biscayne Boulevard corridor starting from around Midtown, through the Design District and into the Upper Eastside.
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 [...]
Cheers to Bacardi – Historic Designation Awarded
In what is a big win for preservationists in young Miami, the City of Miami Preservation Board voted to award the Bacardi Building on Biscayne Boulevard with a historic designation. The building, north of Downtown Miami is a unique interpretation of the MIMO style (Miami Modernist) typical of Miami in the middle of the twentieth century.
Morris Lapidus at Lincoln Road
Morris Lapidus is the architect who back in the early 1960’s reimagined Lincoln Road in Miami Beach into one of the first pedestrian malls in America — it was he who proposed closing the street to vehicular traffic. ”A car never bought anything,” Lapidus said in defense of his idea to introduce a pedestrian mall. Considering similar changes to streets around [...]
Historic Bacardi Building
The Miami Herald is reporting that talks are under way to pursue historic designation for the unique Bacardi Museum Building on Biscayne Boulevard near Downtown Miami (Midtown Miami). Designed in the International Style and outfitted with tropical and caribbean decorations — the site, comprised of three components, is a unique interpretation of the MIMO style (Miami Modern).
