Design District

A Look At The Almost Completed Design District Museum Garage

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Museum Garage in Design District

Museum Garage in Design District

Nearly completed is the 7 story Museum Garage located in the trendy Design District of Miami. 

Museum Garage will feature the work of six different artists including Sagmeister & Walsh, Work Architecture Company, K/R Keenen Riley Architects, Clavel Arquitectos, J. Mayer H and Nicolas Buffe that was curated by Terence Riley of K/R Architects.

One of the more unique designs is called "Urban Jam" by Clavel Arquitectos that features 45 cars painted in silver and gold lining the façade of the South portion of the garage. 

Museum Garage, which will also have retail on the ground floor, is located only a couple blocks from City View Garage that opened in March 2015.

Old Buena Vista Post Office In Design District Sold For $8.1M

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Buena Vista Post Office in Design District

The old Buena Vista Post Office in the Design District has sold for $8.125 million, according to The Real Deal. 

The 2,287 square foot building was sold by Lyle Chariff and Steve Budin, who purchased the property in 2003 for $479,000. The buyers are not yet known.

Since the building was built in 1925, over the years it has been used as a post office, courthouse, insurance office and restaurant.

Plans For Design District Post Office Revealed

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Rendering by Touzet Studio

Rendering by Touzet Studio

In December 2015, Thor Equities purchased a post office in the Design District for $43.2 million.

The two story building located at 70 NE 38TH St was built in 1947 and resides in the changing and expanding Design District. 

Thor Equities plan on designing a 57,961 square foot building with three floors that will include a rooftop deck. There will also be six retail tenants. 

Plans were designed by Touzet Studio.

Construction Photos Of Design 41

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Going up in the ever changing Design District is Design 41, which will have retail, offices and a rooftop restaurant. The name was chosen from a Curbed Miami contest. 

The building is designed by Enrique Norten who also designed One Ocean on South Beach. 

Design District To Expand Into Buena Vista District

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Design District With The Buena Vista District Above

City commissioners have given the green light to allowing expansion of the Design District further North, according to Miami Today. 

This will mean that the Design District will extend into the Buena Vista district, which is next to Little Haiti. 

Residents in the area are said to welcome the expansion.

City View Garage To Open This Month In Design District

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Design District Garage Next to I-195

Design District Garage Next to I-195

After months of construction, the City View garage will be ready to open this month that will add 559 parking spaces to the Design District. 

The Western side of the garage will feature the work of Leong Leong and the Eastern side will display the work of IwamotoScott. The exterior also features the work of John Baldessari named Fun Part 1 and Fun Part 2. 

Palm Court recently opened in December 2014 in time for Art Basel.

Previous photos of the City View garage can be seen here.

 

Palm Court Opens In Miami Design District

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View of Palm Court From 2nd Level

View of Palm Court From 2nd Level

Opening in time for Art Basel is Palm Court in Miami's Design District. Although many of the stores are a few weeks or months from opening the area is now open to the public.

The highlights of Palm Court are Buckminster Fuller's "Fly's Eye Dome" and Sou Fujimoto's glass blue fins. 

The South end of Paseo Ponti Walkway is open that will connect with shops and restaurants. 

Previous photos of Palm Court can be seen here.