The City of Miami Beach celebrates the recent completion of its historical 10th Street Auditorium and Beach Patrol headquarters. These historic facilities, originally constructed in 1953 and 1939 respectively, were recently restored to modern-day use while honoring their MiMo architectural style and nautical Art Deco theme. The grand facilities will be unveiled on
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Miami Beach’s 10th Street Auditorium Re-Opens
Posted in Events, tagged Art Deco, Design, Miami, Miami Beach, Miami Modern Architecture, Mid-Century Modern, South Beach on October 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Miami Modern Metropolis Book Launch at Bass Museum of Art
Posted in Events, tagged Design, Miami, Miami Beach, Miami Modern Architecture, Mid-Century Modern, MiMO on October 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The two decades that followed World War II were a period of extraordinary growth in Miami and Miami Beach. During that time, architectural modernism provided a framework for the city’s new urban patterns, novel building types, evolving aesthetics and emerging environmental consciousness. Modernism is appropriately a lens through which to examine Miami’s postwar development
Art Deco District’s 30th Anniversary
Posted in Events, tagged Architect, Art Deco, Design, Miami, Miami Beach, Miami Modern Architecture, South Beach on May 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
While Art Deco architecture is distinctly different from the Miami Modern theme of this site, we feel this particular event is well worth mentioning to our readers.
Miami Design Preservation League activists fought against all odds 30 years ago to save Miami Beach’s Art Deco architecture from bulldozers and demolition, and few could have imagined the [...]
