MIAMI | do you think this is attractive? - Page 2

PhillyRising · #21 Posted **Mar 24, 2008, 1:44 PM**

I hate the facade of the garage portion and the trees coming out of the windows kind of reminds me of seeing abandoned homes in Philly in which trees sprout of the windows and roofs.

Great concept...not so great execution. The retail part along the street level is fine. I suppose it's all a matter of one's taste.

SLO · #22 Posted **Mar 24, 2008, 3:27 PM**

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It's in South Beach and I think it's great. The retail is part of the garage and wraps around both sides if I remember correctly.

I really like it. I like how the retail facade is in front of the parking garage/greenery. I do wonder how they trim it though. Great concept for the right climate.

skylife · #23 Posted **Mar 24, 2008, 3:41 PM**

I kind of like it.

It looks like the Finnish embassy in DC.

LivingIn622 · #24 Posted **Mar 24, 2008, 3:50 PM**

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Being from Chicago, anything with a Palm Tree infront of it is attractive to me.

aggreed.

JackStraw · #25 Posted **Mar 24, 2008, 4:04 PM**

Looks kind of a like chia pet architecture.

futuresooner · #26 Posted **Mar 24, 2008, 4:14 PM**

That's in Miami Beach, just a block or two west of Ocean Drive. You can see the Portofino Tower in the background, which is on South Pointe Drive at the tip of the beach. I remember seeing this building, very unique.

kraggman · #27 Posted **Mar 24, 2008, 4:26 PM**

I bet the birds love it.

aaron38 · #28 Posted **Mar 24, 2008, 4:34 PM**

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It looks like some computer model you'd see on one of those Discovery Channel 'Armageddon/Fifty years without humans' shows.

My thought exactly. They were going for lush, but it looks neglected/overgrown. It could definitely be improved on.

But compared to the alternative of a bare concrete wall, yeah, it's attractive.

MolsonExport · #29 Posted **Mar 24, 2008, 4:43 PM**

beats any other parking garage that I've seen (undoubtedly the ugliest structures wrought by mankind).

SpongeG · #30 Posted **Mar 24, 2008, 10:35 PM**

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I don't like it. What's with the spruce trees randomly popping out from the rest of the greenery? It also looks like someone hasn't trimmed the flora in quite a while. I do like the different facades for each retailer though. Nothing uniform about it as each storefront is unique.

Of course the white wall and black bars are a no-brainer in contributing to its ugliness. Unless this is your parking garage, Sponge G. If that's the case, then I like it

haha no

I was reading a magazine (metropolitan home - green issue) and i saw it and i was like - ewww

the newer picture in the magazine is much more overgrown than this one

I kinda get the concept but it just looks weird

WilliamTheArtist · #31 Posted **Mar 25, 2008, 12:50 AM**

Nice try.... but just doesn't do it for me.

pj3000 · #32 Posted **Apr 7, 2008, 6:41 PM**

Yeah guys, the first picture is from 1997 (as SpongeG stated) when it was first built. The crossed facade work was exposed at the beginning, but was built to serve as latticework for the foliage to wrap around. I think it now looks pretty damn nice for a parking garage on South Beach.

mthq: spruce trees may grow in Alaska, but definitely not on parking garage trellises in Miami

NewAtlantisMiami · #33 Posted **Apr 9, 2008, 7:28 PM**

I'm a native Floridian who moved to South Florida by way of California (L.A. and San Francisco). I lived on South Beach from 1984 to 1999. In 1984, it wasn't even called South Beach and was overrun with Cuban low-life and elderly people on Ocean Drive sitting out on their verandas, staring out over the ocean. If any one of you had been there then, I doubt you would have even created this thread.

Jibba · #34 Posted **Apr 10, 2008, 6:09 AM**

Hmmm...Well, it certainly has its share of enjoyable aspects. It is a very ambitious use of "natural" materials, and there is retail space at street level preventing the entirety of the mass from being completely dead. However, I am also opposed to all things that are functionally or aesthetically misleading: I do not like that the retail spaces are falsely represented as being indivdual structures, and I do not like that the wall of plants falsely puts forth the image of some sort of enclosed parkland (no pun intended). It could certainly be much worse, but with very little (or perhaps no) additional thought and resources it could be much, much better.

So I suppose I do not find this very attractive.

JDRCRASH · #35 Posted **Apr 10, 2008, 4:32 PM**

Is it attractive? Absolutely. it looks so exotic.

NewAtlantisMiami · #36 Posted **Apr 10, 2008, 7:29 PM**

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Is it attractive? Absolutely. it looks so exotic.

An exotic and somewhat tropical look is the whole idea here in South Florida, which is why we have a skyline unique to itself with skyscrapers in pastel colors. And up until roughly 20 years ago, the prevailing school of thought was that a skyscraper could not have balconies as the increased wind load so high up created by the drag of the balconies would cause the building to rack so badly that it would collapse during a storm. Here in the 21st century, the state of the art in skyscraper architecture has advanced such that Miami has new skyscrapers over 500 feet tall all over the place with balconies up to the top of the building. This now exists to this extent nowhere else in the world. Since most of Miami's skyscrapers were now built in the 21st century, the city is now taking on a futuristic, almost sci-fi type of look.

JDRCRASH · #37 Posted **Apr 11, 2008, 6:11 PM**

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Originally Posted by NewAtlantisMiami

An exotic and somewhat tropical look is the whole idea here in South Florida, which is why we have a skyline unique to itself with skyscrapers in pastel colors. And up until roughly 20 years ago, the prevailing school of thought was that a skyscraper could not have balconies as the increased wind load so high up created by the drag of the balconies would cause the building to rack so badly that it would collapse during a storm. Here in the 21st century, the state of the art in skyscraper architecture has advanced such that Miami has new skyscrapers over 500 feet tall all over the place with balconies up to the top of the building. This now exists to this extent nowhere else in the world. Since most of Miami's skyscrapers were now built in the 21st century, the city is now taking on a futuristic, almost sci-fi type of look.

Well then if thats the case, i'm definately making Miami as one of my future trips to Florida!

photoLith · #38 Posted **Apr 15, 2008, 6:31 PM**

Hey, lets cram as many plants as we can and thatll look good. In my opinion it looks terrible. Too many darnded plants for sure.

Surrealplaces · #39 Posted **Apr 15, 2008, 6:42 PM**

I drove by that place a few months ago and didn't know what it was. I guessed that it was a parkade.

It looks pretty good to me.

Buck · #40 Posted **Apr 15, 2008, 10:07 PM**

I wish Atlanta would do this with some of it's parking garages.