Thursday, February 01, 2007
Miami centre stage
FT.com: "César Pelli, the Center’s architect, says that because Miami is “so flat” he wants to give the city “mountains of the arts”. Both buildings have off-white granite exteriors with individual façades – 77 in all, each culminating in a point akin to the side of a house. Although some regard the result as contrived, the style is handsomely contemporary, neither too conservative nor too idiosyncratic. The project cost $460m (£235m) (€355m) ."
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Well, he’s right, Miami is quite flat. It will be interesting to see if they can pull in more audience members for the venue. I am a bit skeptical of that. Miami has a fairly decent size arts community, however if they really want the attention that will be needed to sustain this project, they will have to look into what can work with the tourism industry, and, of course hurricanes
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