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. ,,~ [("~; ~. " LOCAL FLAVORS :;is:-...:~t., This page, clockwise .,..., . .. from top left: The ~ pool at the JW Marriott Marquis Miami; on the street in Miami's Design District; a Coppertone ad on Biscayne Boulevard; co-owner Arel Ramos at his shop, Stripe Vintage Modern: Opposite page, clockwise from top left: Michelle Bernstein, the chef at Sra, Martinez; Inside Bal Harbour Shops; grilled octopus from Cecconi's, at the Soho Beach House; the Rotunda at Collins Park; hitting South Beach, I I map, Just north of Gehry's complex, the Collins Park arts district is adding to South Beach's architectural c.\chet by creating a thoughtfully landscaped domain for sculptural installations. wMiarni has little green space, but South Beach is leading the way with intelligently designed I'iublic parks,w says Jean-Fran\ois Lejeune, an urban historian and professor of architecture at the University of l\lial11L Bor- dered on the north by the Arquitcctonica-dcsigned studios afthe Miami City Ballet, the park features an open expanse of lawn studded with sculptures that stretch from the Bass i\luscum of Art to the beach, From there, it's a Jl)-l1linute bike ride along the newly extended boardwalk to South Pointe Park,a ] 9-acrc Cormer wasteland at the southern tip of Miami Beach that's been transformed by Hargreaves Associates, the team behind the planned 2012 Olympic Park Lands, in East London, South Pointe incorporates a series of serpentine trails that wind through dune grasses to a waterfront promenade lined with 18 pylons that emit colored LED light, I I 'I I I I. I I I I I 1~...I~...>,":.~i j ..' . ~.~ ' ~"<:I:; " . ,;;:s;... "fry ..... ~ ! i I I.. ~. ~. \. ')I~\\ \tIA ~ . I I I I II I, These projects come on the heels of significant develop- ment across the city,] n mid-Miami BC4lch. the top-to-bottom. billion-dollar renovation oCthe FOntainebleau kicked oITrhe area's rebirth two years ago; now there's the Soho Beach House next door. .We wanted to be outside the madness. but close enough to dip In easily; says Nick Jones, owner of the newest Olltpost of the l.ondon-based boutique hotel a nd so- cial dub. To build the property. local architect and writer Allan Shulman joined the 1941 Roy France-designed Sovereign Hotel with a slim new J\looernist tower, "Allan is very dever in the way he manages to inCuse Art Deco and contemporary styles," Jones says, The public spaces arc 'de- signed by London-based M:lrtin Brudnizkl and include heavy }'e-olde-English-c1ub leather chairs, along with a 150-plus-piece contemporary art collection curated by Fra ncesca Gavin. Nowhere is the hotel boom more acute than in downtown MiamLIn the 1980's, the area was dominated by the illumi- nated I. M.l'ei tower immortalized on TV's Miami Vice: the. .;. j' .:. .,._.~_..'........' ....-'.~~---- :. , .' .. ~~ ::~~ ,.. .J. iL -:.~i!i t#' ....... - -- ---- -. -- - --...- -. ~...~.- -- '-