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New SLS Brickell Will House Michael Schwartz Restaurant, Katsuya, and the Bazaar by Jose Andres

Even though the SLS Hotels and Residences in Brickell won't be open for at least another two years, the city is anticipating the arrival of Miami's second SLS and its accompanying restaurants and amenities. The high-rise hotel will be located at 1300 S. Miami Ave. in what a sales brochure ... More >>

China Grill Moving From South Beach to Brickell

The restaurant that in 1995 ushered in the contemporary era of South Beach dining, is closing its doors on Saturday, April 28th.China Grill Management and Jeffrey Chodorow announced that the shuttering of the iconic establishment will be a prelude to the opening of China Grill Brickell "in the fourt ... More >>

Genting Scraps Plans for Herald Site, Goes Back to the Drawing Board

​Genting Group shocked South Florida when it bought up the Miami Herald's current bayfront property and unveiled its ostentatious plans for Resort World Miami. The proposed project looked like a futuristic, alien city, with 10 million square feet of space, two hotel towers, two condo towers, a gia ... More >>

Andres Duany and Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk: Urbane Planners

A Guide to Trashing Taxpayers

Dummies Guide To Trashing Taxpayers: South Miami-Dade Cultural Arts Center

​Next week, New Times is publishing a guide to the eight of the worst public works projects in Miami-Dade, where bureaucrats and elected officials take pride in wasting millions in taxpayer dollars on crap residents have little-to-no use for.As we reveal each one of these boondoggles on Ripti ... More >>

Miami Beach Getting Another Parking Garage Designed by a Star Architect, This Time Zaha Hadid

​In the architecture world, apparently you aren't anyone until you've designed a parking garage in Miami Beach. Frank Gehry, Herzog & de Meuron, and Arquitectonica have all designed structures to house visitors' vehicles. Now the city has announced it has commissioned another star architect, Z ... More >>

Resorts World Miami Includes Plans For Over 50 Restaurants

Resorts World Miami rendering shows lots of little people eating at lots of restaurants.​Resorts World Miami, the mega resort/casino/condo/convention center being planned by Genting may not be finished for a few years, but one thing's for sure -- it's going to add a hell of a lot of dining options ... More >>

Genting Reveals Plans for 10-Million-Square-Foot Resort (With Casino) on Miami Herald Site

​Get ready for the idea of giant sail-looking buildings staring at you from Biscayne Bay, and perhaps more important, prepare for the idea of a casino in downtown Miami. Genting has revealed its plans for the giant resort complex it wants to plop onto the current site of the Miami Herald building ... More >>

Miami's Paramount Bay condo cost $262 million and two lives

Paramount Bay Condos Up For Auction After $262 Million Foreclosure, But Are They Cursed?

Marc Averette via Wikimedia CommonsParamount Bay exactly three years ago, shortly after a crane accident killed two workers.​Paramount Bay's luxury waterfront condo was scheduled to open more than two years ago. But stop by the 46-story blue glass building at 2066 N. Bayshore Dr. and you feel like ... More >>

Megamall and Residential Towers Coming to Downtown Miami

​Brickell Citicentre was one of the most ambitious development projects announced during the height of Miami's epic construction boom, but it canceled after the bottom fell out of the market in 2007. The project's collection of skyscrapers would have forever altered the Miami skyline, while its ma ... More >>

Diavolo in the Details

Wilkie D. Ferguson Jr. Courthouse already under repair

Two Years Later, $169 Million Wilkie D. Ferguson Jr. Courthouse Is Under Repair

​When the Wilkie D. Ferguson Jr. Courthouse finally opened in late 2007, the Magic City waxed rhapsodic: "Beautiful" and "elegant," enthused one judge; "(People) will say, 'That's Miami!" exclaimed another. Even this publication swooned, naming the glass behemoth "Best New Building" and praising t ... More >>

South Dade Arts Center Behind Schedule

Critics blast builder for delays on cultural project in Cutler Bay.

Killer Mold in Miami Court

The fungus nailed Judge Ted Klein and endangers others. Federal incompetence is to blame.

Letters from the Issue of February 28, 2008

"People need to know the truth about him. He makes me sick!"

Miami Joins Select "Fast" Company

The New Off-Limits Urban Oasis

Are You Still Here?

Polo may be a no-go, but Björk likes to pogo

Nude Interlude

Going bare the subversive way

Aqua Nova

Will a starry-eyed proposal for renovating Monument Island burn out before its time?

Beach Heads

Architects vie for granular greatness

Beating Whitey

Developer Donahue Peebles is as handsome, smooth, articulate, & nasty as he needs to be

Chef Suits

Why are some of our finest in legal trouble?

BEST EYECATCHING GOVERNMENT BUILDING

Aventura Government Center

Pooch Putsch?

If this catfight over a dog park gets any more beastly, it could claw apart city government

Squeeze Play

When an influential developer wants to cram a size-10 project on a size-4 parcel of waterfront land, who can he turn to for help? The ever-accommodating Miami City Commission, of course.

The Children's Museum, Inc.

New Times gives a tour of the Miami Children's Museum and its corporate exhibitisements -- for kids of all ages!

Spoiled Island

With no public input whatsoever, Miami officials have put together a deal to trade waterfront park land for massive cruise ship terminals and a lovely parking garage

Forms Follow Functions

The second Design + Architecture Day includes a month filled with festivities

The Cheat Is On

The Heat continues its disgusting betrayal of public trust with a nifty assist from spineless county commissioners

The Heat's Hot Air

The team promised the public an arena with plenty of open space. Instead we're getting a nightclub and a restaurant.

Screwing up the Center

Years behind schedule and way over budget, the performing arts center is another Miami miracle

Grand illusions

When a gutsy group of homegrown entrepreneurs tried to turn around the black Grove, they failed miserably

Chairmen of the Outboard

A 50-year-old Biscayne Bay institution builds a dock to the 21st Century

Night & Day

May 13 - 19, 1999

Yuppies in the Hood

Welcome to St. Hugh Oaks, Miami's first subsidized housing project for the affluent

Deconstructing Tommy

How a Bensonhurst boy rose to the summit of South Beach's promotion biz

The Roads Less Developed

Residents of this Miami neighborhood don't care how neat the kids' museum will be

Shooting Straight

For master craftsman Abe Rich, making world-class pool cues is more than a job -- it's a way of life.

Performance Anxiety

Joaquin Avino's new employer got a piece of the Performing Arts Center contract, but Avi*o had nothing to do with it

Swelter 39

I Am Not a Meddler

Amid a flurry of memos, Miami Beach City Manager Roger Carlton is accused of tampering with a zoning decision. But of course it was just one big misunderstanding.

Rotisserie Chic

Swelter

There Goes The Neighborhood

Black Grove Feature