Various Un-Megaprojects Coming to the Design District

Curbed Miami

by Sean McCaughan

Brown Jordan Flagship

It’s pretty hard for new buildings to compete for attention in the mega-hyped Design District in the midst of Dacra’s billion plus ultra-luxe developments, the new ICA museum, and Enrique Norten’s Design 41, but there are indeed a number of smaller noteworthy District retail projects underway.

Highly acclaimed Touzet Studio who designed the striking Lincoln Road Gap building has two projects in construction. The design of 3711 NE 2nd Avenue, the site of the former Power Studios, with its cool open canopied top floor is intended to be perceived as “a three dimensional canvas or billboard to be enjoyed at different times of day or night.” The wind from the I-195 traffic flying by will assure a constant breeze up there. Just opposite, on the other side of the highway is a new Brown Jordan flagship store which again features an open canopied top floor. The site’s just behind a rundown little public park with a bright red sculpture, so that might be what the park and the giant ‘DESIGN DISTRICT’ sign in the renderings are all about. (Update: the sculpture’s gone!)