Rem Koolhaas has won the chance to redesign a large swath of Miami Beach. In a late Wednesday night vote, city commissioners chose a team led by Koolhaas to enlarge the Miami Beach Convention Center and redevelop its 52-acre site, a project that the Miami Herald called “the most important development deal in the history of Miami Beach.” Koolhaas beat out his onetime employee Bjarke Ingels, who had described their competition for the $1 billion-plus project as “oedipal.”
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