Architects Propose Giant Waterski Jump For Bayfront Park (for the Landmark Miami ideas competition)

This giant ramp-like building designed by New York based Studio Dror was just announced as the winning entry for the Landmark Miami ideas competition, which asked entrants to submit ideas for a new iconic piece of architecture for Miami, to be located in Bayfront Park. Dror's idea, which looks kind of like a waterski jump for a vacationing Paul Bunyan, is an Eiffel Tower-like monument dropped on its side and filled with exhibition spaces, a theater, a restaurant, and even a library. And although it would be located on what is now dry land, they've dug out the area underneath, creating a little inlet from the bay under the looming triangular thing.

 

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by Sean McCaughan

 

 

Miami's Downtown Train Station Breaking Ground This Year

 

Wednesday, May 8, 2013, by Sean McCaughan

 

The Prez and Chief Development Officer of All Aboard Florida, Michael Reininger told Miami Today that "We hope to break ground probably late this year" on the Florida East Coast Railway's new downtown Miami passenger station. The station will be on almost ten acres of surface parking lots currently owned by the FEC smack in the middle of Downtown Miami that once was the site of Miami's original train station.

It'll be "a very connected urban village" >>

"We'll turn that neighborhood into a very connected urban village, and we'll become a very significant intermodal kind of facility that will link our infrastructure and transportation uses with many of the other existing transportation uses, like the Metrorail and Metromover station, which exist adjacent to the station," he said, saying the plan was still in the design phase but making it all just sound fabulous anyways. Last year they announced that station master plans were being developed by Skidmore, Owings, & Merrill and Zyscovich, so since no other architects have been announced, those firms are presumably doing the architectural design work as well. Check out some earlier station schematics here.

 

 

http://miami.curbed.com/

 

Rapper Lil’ Wayne’s $14M La Gorce Island home could be seized

 

April 12, 2013 01:00PM
                               

From left: the La Gorce Island home that Goldstein is looking to seize and rapper Lil’ Wayne

Following a November judgment against him in a contract dispute, the rapper known as Lil’ Wayne may lose the La Gorce Island home, for which he reportedly paid $14 million in 2010, Gossip Extra reported.

Wayne’s production company, Young Money, should perhaps consider a change of name — maybe Young Bankruptcy? — as it now owes $3.4 million in fines and legal fees, Gossip Extra said. Since the company failed to pay what it owes, authorities may seize assets, including the home.

Miami lawyer David Goldstein — the attorney for victorious plaintiff Quincy Jones III in the case and the party to whom the legal fees are due — is moving to seize some of Wayne’s South Florida assets, including the waterfront home and several pricey cars, Gossip Extra said.

Wayne paid $7.7 million in back taxes on the home last year, and listed it for $12.9 million, though it does not appear that a sale is moving forward. –Guelda Voien

 

http://therealdeal.com