There were more construction workers than shoppers in Miami’s Design District on Tuesday. A glass loggia by Sou Fujimoto was finished, as was a storefront by Aranda\Lasch for Tom Ford on a corner lot. But much else awaited completion. Craig Robins’s plan to turn the Design District into a high-end fashion destination, with architecture as a draw, is proceeding fitfully.
Following a master plan developed by Duany Plater Zyberk (DPZ), Robins has created a north-south pedestrian “street” that ends in what is now called Palm Court, a plaza centered on a replica Buckminster Fuller Fly's Eye Dome. Visitors who park below the plaza will arrive via a staircase under the dome. Alastair Gordon, in his first column as architecture critic of the Miami Herald, wrote that he likes to imagine it “nudging wealthy shoppers towards cosmic consciousness.” If only!
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