The Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA) has unveiled the design for a 17-story, 408,000-square-foot residential tower in Miami’s Mid Beach neighborhood.
The Perigon, located at 5333 Collins Avenue, will sit at the center of a rare section of Miami Beach that spans from the small village of Indian Creek to the Atlantic Ocean. Its unique position allows for dual-waterfront living. The project is being led by OMA Partner Jason Long.
The structure has been designed as a series of “towers” rotated to orient views away from neighbors and towards the Atlantic Ocean and Biscayne Bay. The towers are merged and lifted 45 feet above the flood line into a singular volume. This allows for panoramic views across each floor and opens up space on the ground level.
“Miami Beach combines natural beauty with urban density—Collins Avenue is at times a walled fortress blocking off the city from its best asset. We tried to make our building touch the ground as lightly as possible, opening views to the ocean and sky from within the site and beyond,” said Long.
The building’s carved base creates a dramatic entry along Collins and shaded exterior amenities facing the beachfront. The top of the building mirrors this access by terracing down to address the city and the ocean.
“By lifting the building’s ends 45-feet above the flood line, we create a porous site that invites views from the city to the ocean while also providing moments of seclusion for residents,” said OMA Associate Yusef Ali Dennis.
The braid-like circulation of the paths throughout the site defines amenity spaces and pockets of discovery, ranging from quiet gardens to serene water features. The tower comprises 82 units with floor-to-ceiling windows and broad terraces. Across the façade, curved and straight terraces alternate to delineate the varying sized towers, creating a sense of rhythm across the building.
“The bundled form of this building creates zig-zagging floorplans with elongated units and numerous corners. Given the generosity of the units, we were able to exploit the variegated floorplan to devise a diverse repertoire of unit configurations offering both open, panoramic living spaces and very private, secluded zones,” added Long.
Construction of The Perigon is scheduled to begin in November 2022 and is expected to complete in 2025. It will achieve LEED Gold certification upon completion.
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That's cool, OMA has become another crappy corporate firm (like the one I work at)
Been that way since the two co-heads of the NY office started taking their respective portfolios in two directions. You can tell which one does Gensler by way of BIG, and which one does the whackier projects.
Archinect loooooooves to hate on OMA. This project isn't great, but it's still better than the work that 90% of the people on this website build lol
Probably Rem, but its nearly not as cutting edge as OMA pretends to be.
Yes, and if a middling firm from flyover country did this building, would it be the subject of a lengthy news feature?
I like this design, as I liked the Renzo Piano building in Surfside which had a similar building envelope. Love the continuous balconies, rounded corners, and handsome massing. However this is surely way too much glass for a residential building-- especially in a hot and humid environment like Florida. I'm not seeing any operable sections either-- residents will be blasting the AC 24/7 from March through November. This is the same mistake that Modernists have been making for the last, I don't know, 70 years, and they still keep making it to get that sexy factor.
Agree 100%. The overhangs will help with shade and add a nice design factor. But way too much glass. Wish architects (or more accurately, the developers and public that demand it) would bring back deco and louver features that work better in warm climates. There's no excuse to be building all of these gas guzzling buildings in 2022.
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