Archinect - News2024-05-10T16:59:03-04:00https://archinect.com/news/article/150098908/what-s-new-miami-a-look-at-the-city-s-latest-a-list-architecture-additions
What's new, Miami? A look at the city's latest A-list architecture additions. Alexander Walter2018-12-04T13:37:00-05:00>2020-02-03T12:16:23-05:00
<img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/18/18a0b31c1180ef9a7aac1b1da4870cfa.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><em><p>Miami’s newest wave of designs could be its most ambitious yet.
Fitting for a place that cherishes A-listers, virtually every celebrity architect in the world, and many rising stars, have built there in the last decade. The big names include Frank Gehry, Rem Koolhaas, Zaha Hadid, Herzog & De Meuron, Grimshaw, César Pelli, Richard Meier, Arquitectonica, Rafael Moneo, Jean Nouvel and Bjarke Ingels. The impressive results are scattered citywide, from Miami Beach to the thriving Design District.</p></em><br /><br /><p>Sam Lubell takes a stroll from Downtown Miami to the Design District to Miami Beach for a <em>NYT</em> roundup of (fairly) recent additions to the city's impressive portfolio of landmark buildings by noteworthy architects, including Herzog & de Meuron's 1111 Lincoln Road parking garage, OMA's <a href="https://archinect.com/news/article/149981015/oma-s-three-part-faena-project-opens-in-miami" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Faena Forum</a> arts center, Zaha Hadid Architects's <a href="https://archinect.com/news/article/134269190/construction-begins-on-zaha-hadid-s-luxe-new-one-thousand-museum-in-miami" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">One Thousand Museum</a> condo tower, Grimshaw's <a href="https://archinect.com/news/article/150061595/new-miami-frost-science-museum-faces-lawsuit-from-contractor-skanska-over-unpaid-bills" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Frost Science Museum</a>, and, of course, the exuberant Museum Garage with facade contributions by J. Mayer H, WORKac, and others. <br></p>
<p><a href="https://archinect.com/news/article/149976153/floridians-may-not-see-eye-to-eye-politically-but-they-all-agree-parking-garages-are-awesome" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Garages, so hot right now</a>.<br></p>
<p>Related: Listen to our podcast episode about Miami's garages, in our conversation with Thom Faulders of Faulders Studio.</p>
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https://archinect.com/news/article/150061595/new-miami-frost-science-museum-faces-lawsuit-from-contractor-skanska-over-unpaid-bills
New Miami Frost Science Museum faces lawsuit from contractor Skanska over unpaid bills Alexander Walter2018-04-25T16:14:00-04:00>2018-04-27T00:14:34-04:00
<img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/0u/0uqyl3oixow5epe6.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><em><p>The Frost Science Museum has been open for nearly a year, and it’s already been visited by almost 1 million people. But it’s not finished, and the nonprofit and the general contractor are fighting over who should pay to complete the work.
The museum faces a lawsuit from its main contractor claiming the nonprofit unfairly held back payments and left construction work undone as budget strains forced it to cut costs in the final months of building the mostly tax-funded $300 million project [...].</p></em><br /><br /><p>"Frost is already in litigation with its original contractor, Suffolk Construction, which the museum fired in 2014, two years after starting one of the most complicated construction projects in the Southeast," the <em>Miami Herald</em> reports.<br></p><p><a href="https://archinect.com/grimshaw" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Grimshaw Architects</a> designed the ambitious museum complex in downtown Miami after winning the architectural competition in 2007.</p>