The Putting Club

The Putting ClubMiami, Florida

The Lincoln Road Mall is a unique experience in the United States, one of the country’s few pedestrian shopping and leisure streets. Its success has led to the continued reinvestment and re-imagining of the various retail and entertainment experiences along the Mall.

For all of the great ‘unprogrammed’ activities that exist along Lincoln Road in Miami Beach, dining, shopping, and people-watching, there is little structured entertainment beyond the movies and bowling. The Putting Club’s goal is to provide another family-oriented, activity-based entertainment alternative within our City Center with a design that relates to its tropical setting, its Lincoln Road adjacency, and its rooftop location.

We studied the architecture, sequence, and experience of Lincoln Road, with its pavilions and tropical landscaping, to inform our design decisions and to create a place that feels like an extension of the best Lincoln Road offers. Our design aims to transform this underused rooftop into an amenity. Through this unique and thoughtful design, we believe we will create a destination that ties into the history and aesthetic of Lincoln Road Mall while becoming an integral part of the redevelopment and future of the Lincoln Lane corridor.

Project Details

Year: 2012
Location: Miami, Florida
Status: Complete

Puerto Rican Chamber of Commerce

Puerto Rican Chamber of CommerceMiami, USA

The project entails the design of the new Puerto Rican Chamber of Commerce and County Office Building in Wynwood. The Puerto Rican Community has a rich and long history in Miami centered in Wynwood, but until now, it has not had a hub. Our project will provide a café, learning, art, meeting, and office spaces for this purpose. In addition, the upper floors will also be devoted to offices for Miami-Dade County and the Commissioner serving Wynwood. The building draws its inspiration from the industrial nature of the neighborhood and the mostly one-story warehouses that define the character of Wynwood, along with the street art (murals) that have become a tourist destination. In keeping with the neighborhood and to diminish the building mass, the last floor is set back, and a large terrace fronts 29th Street. The façade treatment of the upper floors is governed by the rhythmic repetition of vertical fins that recall industrial building architecture of the 20th century. The ground floor comprises retail spaces, a café, and the building entrance lobby. A glass storefront lines 29th Street, which is generously set off the sidewalk to create additional space for outdoor events. The upper floors have offices and a children’s education center.

Project Details

Year: 2019
Location: Miami, USA
Status: Complete
Client: Mana Wynwood

Mana 5th Avenue

Mana 5th AvenueWynwood, Miami, Florida

Mana Fifth Ave. is a large-scale, mixed-use, innovative project to kick-start Wynwood’s western edge revitalization. The primary tenant is an artist-driven beauty brands company that creates top-tier beauty products (LBP). Occupying the majority of the 243,000 sf nine-story building, it will bring to Wynwood a dynamic mix of office, education spaces, auditoriums, hotels, restaurants, and retail. MANA production studios will occupy the top floor, and the ground level will add a pool deck and outdoor terrace. The design is inspired by the industrial and chaotic nature of the neighborhood with its urban-scale murals, one-story warehouses, and dense fabric. Architecturally, each façade responds to its context differently, and the building steps back on Fifth Avenue to reduce its presence on the street and its immediate surroundings.

Project Details

Year: 2017
Location: Wynwood, Miami, Florida
Status: Complete
Client: Mana Wynwood
Size: 243,000 SF
Team: Claudia Busch, Gustavo Berenblum, Miguel Porras, Matt Wassala, Rafael Rama
Image Credits: BBAmiami, Spine 3D

This project is about revitalizing Wynwood's western edge with an intelligent mix of uses and an appropriate architecture intervention.

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Wynwood Well

Wynwood WellMiami, Florida

The 200,000sf multistory project is design for two major tenants and it will constitute, once finish, the new cornerstone for the Wynwood Arts District, helping to revitalize its core and surrounding area.

BBA is proving architecture and interior design services for shell as well as tenant fit-out. The building is targeted for Silver LEED Certification and it entails the adaptive reuse of a derelict large scale storage facility. The mix-use project will include on the ground level retail spaces, a formal restaurant, cafeteria, bar, outdoor pool deck, lounge, speakeasy, a barbershop and lobby. The upper floors include flex office space, corporate headquarters, 40 room hotel, auditorium and learning spaces, atelier as well as roof terraces and a ballroom. The architecture design draws inspiration from Wynwood’s massive art murals and its industrial heritage.

Project Details

Year: 2015
Location: Miami, Florida
Status: Complete
Client: Mana Wynwood

Miami Dade County Offices

Miami Dade County OfficesUSA

The project, developed by Mapton Holdings, comprises of the adaptive reuse and substantial expansion of an existing building in the Wynwood Arts District. The Puerto Rican Community has a rich history in the ‘Boricua’ Wynwood neighborhood, now they will have a place of their own, just like other minorities. The project will include: artist studios, a café, community spaces, offices and parking totaling approximately 49,000sf on three levels in a contemporary designed building that will activate the south edge of NW 2nd Avenue.

Project Details

Year: 2014
Location: USA
Status: Complete
Client: Mana Wynwood

Collins Park Place

Collins Park PlaceMiami Beach, USA

Located in the Bass Museum neighborhood and behind the Library and Ballet buildings, the project unifies two sites separated by a street. In a joint venture with Zaha Hadid Architects, the $22.5 million building includes 17,000 square feet of retail areas, 480 parking structures, a public plaza for events, weekend food markets, or exterior movie projections. The existing street is closed to cars, and the new pedestrian corridor will link the Complex with the Bass Museum Park. The project is targeted for LEED SILVER certification.

Recognizing the impact of high volumes of visitors to the Miami Beach area and the ensuing difficulties for Miami Beach residents, the city commissioned several studies to improve infrastructure and resident mobility. One of the conclusions was to provide additional parking both strategically and creatively. A site for a parking garage was selected adjacent to Collins Park.

The Collins Park area includes a park and several cultural buildings, as well as significant pedestrian and urban links in Miami Beach. A parking structure here must deliver more than a purely functional parking garage; the architecture must participate in and enhance the surrounding context.