Posts by Sean McCaughan
French Interior Design Exhibition Maison&Objet Does Miami, in Forty Eight Photos
[Photos by Sean McCaughan]
Yesterday Maison&Objet, the premier French interior design fair, debuted its annual Miami incarnation yesterday at the Miami Beach Convention Center. Miami is Maison's new home in the Americas, complementing Maison's current fairs, happening every January and September in France, and March in Singapore. The fair, which will return every May (yes, even during the construction of the new Miami Beach Convention Center), is open to industry people until Thursday, and will have a public day on Friday. Or you can see all the goodies right here.
Blockbusters
A penthouse unit at the Ritz-Carlton Fort Lauderdale Beach just became the most expensive condo per square foot ever sold in Fort Lauderdale, at $1,556 a square foot. It fell short of being the most expensive per square foot in all of Broward by a teeny weenie $2. The total price was $4.4 million. The oceanfront unit's most outstanding feature, besides being oceanfront: a 1,600 square foot terrace of faux grass. [Real Deal]
Shore Club Can't Demolish Historic Cromwell Hotel
The Shore Club was denied a demolition permit for the historic Cromwell Hotel, an eight story structure on the northern portion of the property yesterday, while the rest of the project was generally give a thumbs up. After a heated meeting with neighbors at the Setai, to the north, the Real Deal reports, HFZ Capital will have to return to the drawing board or at least have to come up with a really good argument for why the Cromwell has to go.
The Great Architect Stanford White Designed Miami's Halcyon Hotel on a Dinner Napkin
[Photos and Postcards via Florida Memory/Florida State Archives]
Miami doesn't have any buildings designed by the great Beaux Arts firm of Mckim, Mead & White, designers of New York City's old Pennsylvania Station, the Boston Public Library, and Columbia University, but it used to have one, sort of: the Halcyon Hotel.
Revenge of the megaprojects
The Island Gardens superyacht marina, now under construction on Watson Island, will be ready the first week of December, a.k.a. Art Basel, says Mehmet Bayraktar, developer of the marina. The rest of the project, including the commercial and residential components (condos you'll apparently be able to own for a portion of the year, kind of like timeshares, but "I wouldn't call it a timeshare" says Realtor Alicia Cervera) has yet to secure funding. [Miami Herald; Island Gardens coverage]
Maison&Objet is in Town; How Other Cities Handle Ride Sharing
[Via Curbed Miami Flickr Pool/Francisco Herrera]
· Maison&Objet brings design buzz to Miami [Miami Herald]
· A road diet for S. Dixie Highway in West Palm [Walkable WPB]
· The Karps picked up a little apartment building [Real Deal]
· 800 Brickell sold for $112 million [Real Deal]
· Codina doing apartments in West Kendall [SFBJ]
· Pricing, plans revealed for GranParaiso [Next Miami]
· Met Square movie theater will open fall of 2016 [Next Miami]
· How other cities handle ride sharing [New Tropic]
· Doral becoming high-end office haven [Miami Today]
· Design District land prices soar [Miami Today]
· 800 Brickell is biggest Brickell office sale ever [Miami Today]
· Vote paves the way for Bass Museum expansion [Miami Today]