Bloomberg’s CityLab Profiles Arquitectonica’s Impact on Miami
An excerpt from the article:
Throw a ball in some Miami neighborhoods and chances are you might bounce it off of multiple buildings designed by Arquitectonica
Some 200 of the firm’s projects over a third of its portfolio are located in Miami-Dade County or nearby. Since the firm’s founding in 1977 Arquitectonica has designed the federal courthouse Dolphins stadium Heat arena two cruise terminals a convention center a handful of museums and even the city’s port tunnel entrance. Fourteen of Miami’s 50 tallest buildings are the firm’s projects.
Arquitectonica is not just located in Miami; the architects have been defining the image of that city for over four decades. The firm’s structures are foundational to any conception of Miami in the 1980s although for reasons which the firm prefers not to emphasize. Arquitectonica’s iconic 1982 condo tower The Atlantis shines in the opening credits in Miami Vice; Robert Loggia lived there in Scarface. Bruce Willis and John Turturro both lived in Arquitectonica buildings on Vice; you can guess how their characters paid for them.
