Posts

Luxury Residential Building Eighty Seven Park Rises in Miami Beach

/in /by

Rising above the beach and the newly invigorated North Shore Open Space Park is the luxury residential building, Eighty Seven Park. The residential tower was designed by Italian architect Renzo Piano, and the bright interiors were designed by Paris-based studio RDAI. This is Renzo Piano’s first residential building in the United States.

The talented team behind the highly anticipated luxury tower includes our client, global integrated design firm, Stantec, which served as the project’s executive architect. Development firm, Terra and Bizzi & Partners Development; New York City-based landscape architecture firm, West 8; and global architectural lighting designers, Lux Populi were also part of the collaborative team.

“Working daily with Renzo Piano’s team in Paris was an honor. Our architecture married with his design resulted in a building that blurs the line between indoor and outdoor living, immersed in a park-like environment,” said Stantec’s Project Manager, Joe Murguido. “Perfecting the spatial relationships between the residences, common areas and amenity spaces was very challenging, but the end result should be both stunning and peacefully harmonious, flooded with reflective sunlight from the ocean.”

Eighty Seven Park is located at the northernmost perimeter of Miami Beach in the North Beach district. The project features an 18-story oval construction elevated on white pillars. It boasts 70 residential units, ranging from approximately 1,400 to 7,000 square feet. Each unit features a private terrace and floor-to-ceiling windows for expansive views of the nearby parks and the Atlantic Ocean. The residences’ design is one with nature through the use of American Oak, Italian stone, wraparound glass balconies, with a pristine white façade with touches of gray.

With design inspired by the natural surroundings of North Beach, materials collected from the location site, pebbles, shells, leaves and sea grass are highlighted throughout the building.

For more details on Eighty Seven Park’s design, visit Architect Magazine.

SoFlo Home Project Tours Choeff Levy Fischman Residence

/in /by

SoFlo Home Project, hosted by design expert Alena Capra, takes South Florida viewers inside some of our region’s most luxurious residences each week. Our client, Ralph Choeff of award-winning architecture firm, Choeff Levy Fischman, was recently featured on the show. Ralph let viewers inside of 19 Palm, a Tropical Modern home the firm designed in one of Miami Beach’s most sought out neighborhoods. The home is so stunning producers decided it deserved not one, but two episodes which aired on February 28th and March 7th.

The two-story home, designed in the architect’s famed Tropical Modern architectural style, provides large living spaces in an open-concept format. It includes floor-to-ceiling sliding glass doors that open up to the rear deck, blending the indoors with the outdoors while also providing unprecedented views of the bay. Boasting 9,600 square-feet, with 6 bedrooms, 8.5 bathrooms, and a home theater, the home is full of several outstanding design elements throughout.

“Architecture is made up of a series of moments and you want the person who lives here or is visiting to experience those moments as they approach the house,” said Ralph Choeff during his interview with Alena Capra.

One of those initial moments Ralph and his team created is a British-made automobile rotating turntable triggered by a remote control located in the private motor court. The architects felt this was an important feature for the home due to the narrow shape of the home’s driveway, making it easier for the driver to enter and exit the home.

In the center of home Choeff Levy Fischman designed a stunning open-air atrium with a soothing water feature accompanied by concrete steps that appear to float.

“The theme here is that water is a natural beauty in South Florida, so we want to maintain that Zen feel and have a connection to the bay,” said Architect Ralph Choeff.

SoFlo Home Project airs every Saturday at 11am on WPLG Local 10. Watch the first episode here.

Third-Annual Best of Italian Design Showcase

/in /by

Oberhausen Marketing & Public Relations has partnered with the Italy-America Chamber of Commerce (IACC) Southeast for its latest edition of The Best of Italian Design showcase. 

The third-annual event represents the only initiative dedicated to promoting the Made in Italy home-furnishing sector in Miami. The day-long event, exclusively for design professionals, offers an opportunity for luxury Italian design companies to present themselves to a qualified target of American architects, developers, and interior designers.

The Best of Italian Design showcase will include first looks at the latest innovations in design. During the event are thought-provoking discussions led by influential power players in the architecture and design industry. Topics will involve fashion, sustainability, real estate, and innovative products, and consumer trends.

Attendees will have the opportunity to engage in one-on-one business to business meetings, and experience guided tours of local Design District showrooms during the Showroom Experience portion of the night. There, four top Italian chefs will compete for the top prize for the creation of the best Italian dish combining design and food, inspired by Italian culture, and using authentic Italian ingredients.

Approximately 250 between interior designers, architects, and professionals of the industry are expected to join the event.

The event will take place Wednesday, March 18th inside The Moore Building at the Miami Design District from 2:30 to 9:30 p.m. For more information and to register, visit IACCSE.

The Yukon Miami Building Hits the Market and Hosts Launch Party

/in /by

Located at 119 Washington Avenue in Miami Beach’s affluent South of Fifth neighborhood, The Yukon Miami commands one of the highest per-square-foot rents in Florida. The Class A trophy building just hit the market for $45 million, and a rooftop launch party will take place this week.

Amit Egan Datwani, founder & chief consultant of The Global Consulting Organization, is listing the property along with Cyril Bijaoui of The Company Real Estate. The Arquitectonica-designed building was developed in 2002 by Yantra 119 LLC. A conceptual design showing the unique building’s potential was designed by PALMA, an architecture firm based in Chicago.

“The Yukon Miami is the ideal opportunity for a visionary investor that understands this and has the ability to transform the property from a trophy asset to an absolute gem,” Egan Datwani said.

The 43,140-square-foot commercial office building is the only Class A office building located in the South of Fifth enclave steps away from world-class, record revenue breaking restaurants and more.

In addition to its prime location, The Yukon Miami features more than 8,000 square feet of available rooftop terrace space with 360-degree views of the Atlantic Ocean, Miami Beach, and Downtown Miami, the largest commercial roof and deck space in South of Fifth.

Anchor tenants include One Sotheby’s International Realty, Red Steakhouse, real estate investment company W5 Group and several heavy-weight financial companies, including Boston-based Raptor Capital Management, Manhattan-based York Capital Management, and Sero Capital.

For more information about the building, read the full article in Forbes.

To attend The Yukon Miami’s official launch party on Thursday, February 27th, register here

Saladino Design Studios’ Red Rooster Overtown Featured in Ocean Drive

/in , /by

Miami’s most buzzed-about new restaurant was designed by our client, Saladino Design Studios. Can you guess which one? That’s right!  Located in Miami’s historic Overtown neighborhood, Red Rooster was featured in the latest issue of Ocean Drive. The creative team at Saladino, worked with the acclaimed Chef Marcus Samuelsson to design the restaurant’s second U.S. location.

Red Rooster Overtown aims to revive “a spirit of celebration”. The new 13,000-square-foot setting was curated as a multifaceted gathering space offering a variety of experiences that reference both the history of the building, as well as the surrounding neighborhood.

Saladino Design Studios aims to echo the vibe of the venue during its lively era throughout the two-story restaurant with eclectic influences such as tropical colors, modern murals, handmade Moroccan titles, cheetah prints, and an abundance of art.

Saladino Design Studios worked with owners to expand the experience beyond the expected with approachable elements for the people of every walk of life.

To learn more about Red Rooster Overtown, check out Ocean Drive’s February issue.  

Berenblum Busch Architects Featured on Miami Today

/in /by

Berenblum Busch Architects, a global architecture, planning, and interior design firm founded in 2010 by principals Gustavo Berenblum and Claudia Busch, is one of three Miami-based architecture firms that’s helping to redevelop the “Cruise Capital of the World.”
The firm is involved in several projects including Terminal B and the design of Carnival Cruise Line’s Terminal F renovation and expansion at PortMiami.
BBA, along with Bea Architects Inc. and Bermello, Ajamil & Partners, were selected through a vetting process the county began Oct. 10, 2018.
For more information, visit Miami Today.

CHOEFF LEVY FISCHMAN TROPICAL MODERN STUNNER FEATURED ON DEXIGNER

/in /by

Our client, Choeff Levy Fischman, designed a recently completed two-story home on Miami Beach’s exclusive Palm Island. The residence leaves you in awe the moment you step onto its lavish motor court as many of their homes do. However, this one boasts a colossal cascading water feature and a British-made automobile rotating turntable – one of two found in Miami. The private driveway also includes an outdoor stairway and a three-car garage with lift capacity concealed by rich Timura wood. The home’s exterior façade also features gray limestone to create a warmer aesthetic.
Designed in the architect’s famed Tropical Modern style, this abode provides large living spaces in an open-concept format. The residence’s first floor features a seamless transition from room to room with large living spaces in an open-concept format. It includes floor-to-ceiling sliding glass doors that open up to the rear deck, blending the indoors with the outdoors. A custom Italian-made wall panel conceals a built-in television and grand wood louvers subtly denote the living room entrance.
A focal point of the home’s interior is a stunning 460 square foot open-air atrium with floating concrete steps that take you across a shallow pool of water. Additional soul-soothing reflecting ponds and cascading water features are spread throughout the property on all four sides of the residence to emphasize its waterfront location.
The master suite boasts a midnight kitchen, a sitting lounge, and a fireplace. Two spacious bathrooms feature exotic floor-to-ceiling marble, and each comes with a seamless glass zero-edge spa shower with steam and scent ventilation. One of the master suite bathrooms also includes a bespoke vanity and a standalone floating Boffi tub.
The home’s second level also includes an atrium-facing pajama lounge where the family can relax in a private setting away from the traffic of the ground level.
For more information, visit Dexigner.

33rd annual Festival of the Trees

/in /by

Each year South Florida’s architecture and design community demonstrates its support for interior architecture education through their annual participation in Festival of the Trees, a fundraising event coordinated by Florida International University’s Interior Architecture Department.
Over the past 32 years, this annual holiday event has raised over $350,000 in funds that benefit FIU’s Interior Architecture Department and its students.
Sponsors underwrite designers who design and build unique holiday creations and donate them to the event. The “trees” are then displayed and auctioned at the gala opening. Winning bidders take these extraordinary creations home and get to show them off throughout the year.
Our President, Josh Oberhausen was selected as a judge at this year’s event, along with Hilda Altimari, Art Director of Dacra Miami Design District; Martin Amado, TV Personality; Massimo Casagrande, Director of Education at Marangoni Miami; and Liana Guilarte, Group Publisher for Modern Luxury. The event took place Thursday, November 21st, at The Moore Building in the Miami Design District.
Congratulations to the winners of the 33rd annual Festival of the Trees:
Most Colorful: “Candela” by AECOM
Most Animated: “It’s All Relative” by Nichols Brosch Wurst Wolfe & Associates, Inc.
Most Progressive: “Respirations” by FIU RDF Lab
Most Sustainable: “Cross-Cultural Headgear” by TSAO Design Group
Most Creative: “Layers Through Time” by G. Alvarez Studio, Inc.
Most Elegant: “Glitz” by HKS Architects, Inc.
Most Whimsical: “Hold My Memphis” by CallisonRTKL
Most Illuminating: “Depths of Deco” by Gresham, Smith, & Partners
Most Thematic: “Games Archiving Games” by OBM International
Honorable Mention (Creative): “Carousel Through Time” by Cube 3
Honorable Mention (Thematic): “Vessel” by Stantec
Honorable Mention (Colorful): “Copasetic” by Zyscovich Architects

BBA’s Claudia Busch in Miami Herald’s CEO Roundtable

/in /by

We are proud to announce that Claudia Busch, Founding Principal of Berenblum Busch Architects, has been selected from among South Florida’s top business leaders to be in the latest panel of Miami Herald’s CEO Roundtable. The industries these panelists represent include technology, real estate and architecture, insurance, law, the arts, banking, nonprofits and small business.
Claudia Busch is founding principal of Berenblum Busch Architects in Miami, an architecture, planning and interior design firm. Busch, who has more than 25 years of experience in the field, has designed for major architects such as Zaha Hadid, Richard Meier, Nalbach Architekten, and Bernard Tschumi. She is also a senior instructor at Florida International University’s School of Architecture. Busch, who was raised in Germany, was trained in Hamburg and also has a master’s degree from Columbia University.
For the next six months, she will give her views on the most important civic and economic issues of the day and will also share personal stories of her successes and setbacks and tips on how to succeed in the business world.
For more information, visit Miami Herald.

Al-Farooq Corporation’s Work on Hard Rock Hollywood Highlighted in USGlass Magazine

/in /by

Our client, Al-Farooq Corporation played a vital role in designing and engineering different portions of the newly renovated Hard Rock Hollywood.
Inside the new guitar-shaped hotel, the engineers designed a 24-foot tall architectural glass waterfall that is part of “The Oculus” located in the lobby combining elements of water, fire and technology all choreographed to music.
The glass product manufacturer, Faour Glass Technologies, trusted Al-Farooq to assist them on this project because they are well-known for being experts in non-typical glass engineering.
Al-Farooq senior project manager, Hammad Muzaffar says the design was complex and required unique engineering analysis because it’s a long, curved system of glass with the dynamic loads from water added to it. The complete glass structure has a radius of 40 feet and is supported by a mullion-less system at the head and sill.
Faour’s Slimpact XL and pivot door systems were used for the hotel entrance and adjacent storefront. Al-Farooq worked with Faour Glass to engineer this portion of the project as well. The Slimpact product was used for approximately 2,200 total square feet of the project.
Muzaffar says his company had to create additional plate designs and connection detailing to get the system to work according to Florida codes, which have strict hurricane ratings.
For more information, visit US Glass News Network.