Miami, USA

Curated by Chad Oppenheim

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Miami,
USA

/ curated by

Chad Oppenheim
2025

Chad Oppenheim

“Miami has been my muse since I began my career in architecture – a place where nature, culture, and atmosphere converge with such effortless beauty that architecture becomes not just building, but storytelling. Everything I create here is a love letter to the city that helped shape me.” – Chad Oppenheim

Principal at Oppenheim Architecture + Design
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/ Forte dei Marmi design by Oppenheim

150 Ocean Dr

A 1938 Mediterranean-Revival building restored with limewashed surfaces, coffered ceilings, and Tuscan-modern restraint—quiet luxury through craftsmanship and proportion.

/ The Surf Club Restaurant

9011 Collins Ave

Pancoast’s 1930s club restored with museum-level precision, paired with Meier/Karp towers. Vaulted ceilings, historic terrazzo, and new floating volumes create a rare architectural duality.

/ Casa Faena & Faena Hotel

3500 Collins Ave

Deco bones reborn as cinematic theater—crimson corridors, monumental art, polished wood, and a curated sense of spectacle. Architecture here becomes narrative.

/ Mandolin Aegean Bistro

4312 NE 2nd Ave

A 1940s bungalow turned Mediterranean courtyard: gravel paths, lanterns, stucco walls, and human-scale intimacy evoke the villages of the Aegean.

/ COTE Miami

3900 NE 2nd Ave

A moody, sculpted interior of brass, black stone, and precision lighting – steakhouse as architectural theater.

/ Boia De

5205 NE 2nd Ave

Minimalist, intimate, beautifully crafted. Subtle wood, copper, and indirect light transform a simple strip plaza into a refined micro-architecture.

/ Lido / Le Sirenuse at Surf Club

9011 Collins Ave

Italian elegance in a Deco shell: vaulted ceilings, mirrored walls, and soft Mediterranean curves staged against Atlantic light.

/ Casa Tua Miami Beach

1700 James Ave

A classic Mediterranean villa turned into one of Miami’s most intimate dining sanctuaries. Stucco walls, candlelit loggias, ivy-draped courtyards, low archways, and warm timber ceilings create a private, villa-like world. The architecture dissolves the boundary between home and restaurant, making every room feel like a salon in a European seaside estate.

/ Sugar

788 Brickell Plaza #40

A rooftop garden framed by Arquitectonica’s tower—timber structures, lush planting, and cinematic views turn Brickell’s skyline into architectural scenery.

/ Broken Shaker

2727 Indian Creek Dr #11

A restored Deco hotel’s courtyard transformed into a handmade tropical salon: mismatched furniture, lanterns, micro-gardens.

/ Champagne Bar at The Surf Club

9011 Collins Ave

Vaulted ceilings, terrazzo counters, and whisper-soft lighting create a bar that feels both sacred and glamorous.

/ Drink at 1 Hotel South Beach

2341 Collins Ave Floor 18

A reclaimed-wood rooftop pavilion embedded in greenery—biophilic design meets beachfront glamour.

/ Sweet Liberty Drinks & Supply Company

237 20th St suite b

An industrial-modern room with perfect proportions and warm lighting—architecture that makes nightlife feel effortless.

/ The Anderson

709 NE 79th St

A MiMo-era building converted into a nostalgic, neon-lit series of interior and exterior lounges echoing mid-century Miami.

/ Biltmore Hotel Miami Coral Gables

1200 Anastasia Ave

A Mediterranean-Revival palace with a Giralda-inspired tower, arcades, and grand interiors expressing Miami’s early “City Beautiful” ambition.

/ Faena Hotel

3201 Collins Ave

A maximalist architectural spectacle—deep reds, polished woods, sculptural staircases, and immersive art integrated into the building’s bones.

/ 1 Hotel South Beach

2341 Collins Ave

A landmark for biophilic architecture: reclaimed wood, greenery, linen textures, and indoor–outdoor thresholds.

/ The Standard Spa

40 Island Ave

A 1950s hotel transformed through breezeways, garden courts, and soft mid-century vocabulary—architecture as wellness.

/ Rosewood The Raleigh

1775 Collins Ave

A Morris Lapidus classic with its signature pool and Deco geometry undergoing a careful, high-integrity restoration.

/ The Goodtime Hotel

601 Washington Ave

A contemporary Deco-inspired boutique hotel with scalloped edges, pastel tones, patterned terrazzo, and whimsical geometry.

/ 1111 Lincoln Road

1111 Lincoln Road

One of the world’s most significant parking structures— an open-air, sculptural concrete stack with huge cantilever’s, exaggerated ceiling heights, and civic terraces. A masterpiece of raw structure and tropical ubanism

/ Wynwood Walk

413 NW 27th St

Former warehouses transformed into breezeways, terraces, and shaded outdoor rooms—walkable, textured, and materially expressive.

/ Lincoln Road

Lincoln Road

Miami’s outdoor architectural timeline: Deco storefronts, Lapidus follies, tropical landscaping by Raymond Jungles, and contemporary interventions.

/ CURIO at Faena Bazaar

3400 Collins Ave

OMA transformed the historic Atlantic Hotel into sculptural retail—floating platforms, crisp lines, and gallery-like interiors.

/ Brickell City Centre

701 S Miami Ave

The “Climate Ribbon” ties multiple buildings together via a monumental shading structure that cools, ventilates, and sculpts the retail spine.

/ Design District

4000 NE 1st Ave

A curated mix of avant-garde façades and lush courts—a museum of contemporary materiality.

/ Bal Harbour Shops

9700 Collins Ave

Mid-century tropical modernism meets luxury retail—open-air walkways, water features, and banyan trees.

/ Pérez Art Museum Miami

1103 Biscayne Blvd

Elevated, open-air spaces, hanging gardens, deep canopies—climate-responsive modernism at its finest.

/ Phillip & Patricia Frost Museum of Science

1101 Biscayne Blvd

Concrete forms, glass bridges, and a dramatic suspended aquarium create a sculptural science campus.

/ Vizcaya Museum & Gardens

3251 S Miami Ave

Mediterranean-Revival architecture at extraordinary craft levels—loggias, baroque gardens, stonework, and a bayfront barge.

/ The Bass Museum

2100 Collins Ave

A 1930s Deco limestone building expanded with crisp, contemporary geometries.

/ Institute of Contemporary Art

61 NE 41st St

A sculptural façade and superbly proportioned gallery volumes focusing on natural light and controlled minimalism.

/ Rubell Museum

1100 NW 23rd St

A warehouse transformed into luminous galleries through austere, precise architectural restraint.

/ Deering Estate

16701 SW 72nd Ave

Historic houses, tropical hardwood hammocks, and early archeology layered into a cultural landscape.

/ Simpson Park Pavilion

55 SW 17th Rd

A timber lattice pavilion that dissolves into the native hammock—architecture functioning as ecological shelter.

/ Ten Museum Park

1040 Biscayne Blvd

A minimalist crystalline tower—structurally expressive, elegantly proportioned, and iconic within the Biscayne Wall.

/ GLF Headquarters

1 SE 3rd Ave #1600

Sculptural, monolithic concrete—deep apertures and expressive massing define this corporate landmark.

/ Art Deco Historic District

1020 Ocean Dr

Pastel stucco, ziggurat rooflines, neon, porthole windows—coastal modernism preserved at a city scale.

/ Wynwood Walls

2516 NW 2nd Ave

Industrial shells turned into large-scale canvases—urban reinvention through art and adaptive reuse.

/ Venetian Pool

2701 De Soto Blvd

A Mediterranean-Revival fantasy carved into a coral quarry—bridges, towers, grottos, and cascading water.

/ Miami Marine Stadium

3501 Rickenbacker Cswy

A heroic mid-century cantilever—folded-plate concrete projecting over the bay like a futuristic wing.

/ Freedom Tower

600 Biscayne Blvd

A Mediterranean-Revival skyscraper—symbol of Miami’s immigrant history and early architectural ambition.

/ New World Center

500 17th St

A refined white box with sculptural interior volumes and one of the world’s best audiovisual performance halls.

/ One Thousand Museum

1000 Biscayne Blvd

A sinuous exoskeleton tower—fluid geometric structure brought to high-rise luxury living.

/ Bacardi Tower & Annex

2100 Biscayne Blvd

Modernist icons—ceramic-mosaic façades and floating glass volumes celebrating Latin American modernism.

/ Grove at Grand Bay

2669 S Bayshore Dr

Two elegant, twisting towers maximizing bay views through a kinetic façade—one of BIG’s signature early U.S. works.

/ Park Grove

2831 S Bayshore Dr

Three sculptural, rounded residential towers with deep balconies and gentle curves—OMA’s climate-responsive interpretation of bayfront living.