A surface-level parking lot across the street from the iconic hotel could be turned into a five-story building with employee parking and a grand ballroom. By Matthew Arrojas South Florida’s largest hotel could receive 31,500 square feet of convention and meeting space on the site of an adjacent parking lot in Miami Beach. The owners of the Fontainebleau Miami Beach proposed the building that would rise seven floors.The bottom three floors would be dedicated to parking, and two of the…

#NBWW #miamiarchitect #coconutgrove #bigarchitects #terragroup via Curbed Miami The twisty towers of Grove at Grand Bay have been completed, marking the first residential towers to be built in Coconut Grove in over a decade. Developed by Terra, designed by Bjarke Ingels, and with NBWW as the architect, the twin 20-story towers are sold out and will be ready for move-in this fall. The project overlooks Biscayne Bay and Regatta Park, located just a couple blocks away from CocoWalk. Amenities include…

Susan Askew Jeffrey Soffer’s plan to add ballroom and meeting space to his Fontainebleau Hotel to make it more competitive with other South Florida meeting facilities gained the endorsement of Miami Beach’s Planning Board. Next stop, the City Commission which will need to approve a zoning change to allow a stand-alone structure with ballroom and meeting space on what is now a surface parking lot between 43rd and 44th Street and Collins Avenue and Indian Creek Drive. While the parking…

New 1,173-key Marriott property in Miami looks set to become the city’s premier conference and event hotel. by Sorcha O’Higgins The transformative Miami Worldcenter scheme One of the biggest developments in the United States at the moment is Miami Worldcenter, a transformative complex of retail, commerce, hospitality and exhibition space, as well as private residences and over 2,000 hotel rooms. According to its website, Miami Worldcenter will be “a dynamic urban core of diversity and excitement” that “brings a new…

Today we participated in our first Virtual Legislative Planning Board Hearing with the City of Miami Beach, and our Fontainbleau Ballroom Expansion was unanimously approved! The design is composed of a faceted curtain wall, angled roof trellis, and “bowtie” cladding. These elements express the rich history and architecture of the Fontainbleau Resort in a contemporary language. #nbww #architecture #miamibeach #miami #fontainbleau #mimo #morrislapidus #hospitality #hospitalityarchitects #thenewnormal #wfh