30 Places to Visit and Color
Jake Rose
Illustrations by Various Artists
Photo by Christo Vlahos
1. Beaches of Miami As one of the nation’s hottest tourist spots, Miami has a sense of colorful character due to its mix of cultural influences and attractive beaches. While many beaches may look similar on the surface, the crowds and neighborhoods that surround them are decidedly different. The Miami you’ll find depends on which stretch of sand you’re on. With their soft white sandy shores and clear blue waves, the beaches of Miami entice tourists and residents alike with their stunning natural beauty.
2. Miami Beach art Deco Characterized by precise and boldly delineated geometric shapes and strong colors, the Art Deco Style of architecture was predominantly seen in many American cities during the 1920s and 1930s. After the hurricane of 1926 destroyed most of Miami’s architecture, the city became enamored with the Art Deco subtype of Tropical Deco. Buildings that were constructed in the Tropical Deco style had decorations featuring whimsical flora, fauna and ocean-liner motifs, all of which reinforced the image of Miami Beach as a seaside resort. To find out if a building was constructed in the Art Deco style, one must look for general symmetry, ziggurat rooflines, decorative panels, round porthole windows, terrazzo floors, curved edges, and neon lighting.
3. Wynwood walls The Wynwood Walls, conceived in 2009 by the late Tony Goldman, has transformed the once desolate warehouse district of Wynwood into “giant canvases that bring the greatest street art ever seen in one place.� Since its inception, this Museum of the Streets has continued to evolve and now spans over 80,000-sqft, features over 50 artists from 16 countries, and showcases a diverse representation of both American and International artists. The Wynwood Walls is a love letter to the city from CEO Jessica Goldman Srebnick and the Goldman family rooted in their commitment to the street art community.
4. Domino park / Little Havana Little Havana is the colorful center of Hispanic culture in Miami. The area’s riddled with Latin-inspired cafes, restaurants, venues and markets that give space and a voice to all the different backgrounds that have taken root in the neighborhood. Maximo Gomez Park, also known as “Domino Park,” is a Little Havana landmark, and meeting spot for older Cubans. At any time of day you will find residents sipping coffee, playing Dominoes and chatting with their friends. A tradition for over 35 years the gameplay at the Park is serious and exciting to watch. The park features walkways with domino-decorated tilework, with a perimeter lined with benches for spectators. The park is located on Calle Ocho and 15th Avenue.
5. ~ Espanola way Journey back in time through Old World Europe when strolling down Miami’s Española Way. Tucked away on a palm tree-lined pedestrian street with lights twinkling overhead, Española Way is a throwback in the heart of South Beach. Conceived as a historic Spanish village in 1925, the corridor between Washington and Pennsylvania Avenues was designed to resemble the Mediterranean villages of Spain through its pink stucco edifices with Spanish tile roofs. With vined façades and friezes, the street is quaint and intimate, begging you to linger and take it all in. A stroll down Española Way transports visitors to a quaint European village while dining at the sidewalk cafes. However, you’ll never forget you’re in Miami with palm trees swaying in the breeze and Art Deco neon lights glittering on the pavement nearby.
Photograph from collection of Vizcaya Museum and Gardens Archives
7. Vizcaya Museum and gardens As Miami’s original hotspot, Vizcaya gives the community an experience where history, art and nature converge. Retaining one of Miami’s only remaining native forests, Vizcaya Museum and Gardens welcomes those who want to connect with nature. Its owner James Deering hired Paul Chalfin, Francis Burrall Hoffman, Jr., and Diego Suarez to design and build his subtropical estate. While Deering modeled Vizcaya after an old Italian villa, he also used reinforced concrete, coral rock, and shells. Planned and built between 1910 and 1922, Vizcaya is one of the nation’s most intact Gilded Age estates. The landscape combines Italian garden design elements with a subtropical setting. Vizcaya opened as a private museum in 1935, and became the Dade County Art Museum in 1953. Deering wanted his estate to embody South Florida’s history, legends and myths, so he derived the name of Vizcaya from the Spanish explorer Vizcaino. Deering wanted the house built near the water, which resulted in the surrounding elevated and reinforced terraces.
10. ' Perez art museum Miami At Miami’s flagship art museum Pérez Art Museum Miami, learn about global modern and contemporary art, explore exhibitions that highlight Miami’s community and location at the Americas’ crossroads, and view the Biscayne Bay waterfront. PAMM provides a forum for residents and visitors alike. Founded in 1984, PAMM became a collecting institution in 1994 and refocused its mission to ensure the city’s many communities were reflected in the collection. In 2013, PAMM moved to Biscayne Bay’s Museum Park located between American Airlines Arena and the Adrienne Arsht Center. As a 21st-century institution, they feel that museums are town halls for the people since it offers chances for exchanging vital ideas and promoting inclusivity across communities, upbringings, and experiences. They reflect Miami’s diversity while embracing the power of art and creativity, are committed to presenting art from the Latinx and Latin American experience, the African diaspora, Latin America, and the Caribbean, and have programs that ensure people can partake in a dialog that shares art at its center.
13. The bass As Miami Beach’s contemporary art museum, The Bass presents contemporary art to excite, challenge, and educate. The Bass seeks to expand the interpretation of contemporary art by integrating design, fashion and architecture into their programs and exhibitions. The Bass IDEAS initiative uses art as a catalyst for creativity and growth in childhood education, while their Creativity in the Community program engages families and their children in Miami’s most under-served neighborhoods. Founded by John and Johanna Bass in 1964, The Bass Museum of Art opened in the Art Deco building formerly housing the Miami Beach Public Library and Art Center. In 2001, the museum added a new wing to house galleries, education space and a museum shop. In 2017, The Bass reopened following a renovation that created 50 percent more programmable space, including four new galleries and an education facility to better serve expanded programs and increased attendance.
14. American airlines arena Located in Downtown Miami on the waterfront of Biscayne Bay, AmericanAirlines Arena is best known for being the home of the NBA Miami Heat. Opened on New Year’s Eve 1999, AmericanAirlines Arena showcases rock concerts, family shows, sporting events, and conferences. For basketball games, the arena can hold up to 19,600 patrons. For concerts, the arena can be configured to hold 180-degree, 270-degree or 360-degree shows in addition to center stage concerts. The arena’s centerpiece is the tentacle-like “Medusa’’ scoreboard. The arena also holds The Waterfront Theater, one of Florida’s largest theaters. Since its opening, American Airlines Arena has also hosted World Wrestling Entertainment “Rumbles’’, and was the location for the MTV Video Music Awards in 2004 and 2005. Several NCAA championship games have also been held at this venue. As the arena’s sponsor, American Airlines put its mark on the venue when they had a giant aircraft painted on top of the arena’s roof after the structure was built.
15. ADrienne Arsht Center Situated at the Americas’ cultural crossroads and in the heart of one of the world’s fastestgrowing urban centers, the Adrienne Arsht Center is one of the largest performing arts centers anywhere. Designed by Cesar Pelli in 1994 and completed in 2006, the Arsht Center presents over 300 performances a year from Florida Grand Opera, Miami City Ballet, New World Symphony and America’s Orchestral Academy. Located along Biscayne Boulevard between N.E. 13th and 14th Streets, the Center contains an opera house, a concert hall, a studio theater, Carnival Tower, and an Education Center. Since its inception, the Center has solidified its standing as one of the world’s finest cultural venues for its excellent acoustics, superb sightlines, and hi-tech performance spaces. Its varied programming brings the best of world culture to South Florida. Moreover, a variety of education and community outreach programs make the arts accessible to as wide an audience as possible. Together, these core values have transformed the Arsht Center into Miami’s new town square.
17. New world center Welcome to the New World Center, home to the New World Symphony, a post-graduate orchestral academy under the artistic direction of Michael Thomas. Designed by Frank Gehry, the New World Center shines brightly next to South Beach’s SoundScape park. The Center features multiple spaces, cutting edge media equipment, and six stories of natural light and views of the Miami Beach Art Deco skyline. Built in 2011, the center contains a performance space and anchors a public arts complex. The centerpiece is Yasuhisa Toyota’s concert hall, which has 756 seats bunched around the auditorium. The building’s façade is a wall of windows, showing cones, curves and flower-shaped constructions inside. The ground level has transparent soundproof rehearsal rooms and recording studios, while the two upstairs floors have practice rooms equipped with interactive video screens. Performances in the concert hall are presented live in a section of the SoundScape park, where video images are screened on a projection wall conveyed through speakers tucked into a matrix of pipes.
23. Wolfsonian museum Rooted in the greatest century of growth and change humanity has known, the Wolfsonian–FIU traces the trek from agrarian to urban, empires to superpowers, and railroads to television. With 200,000 objects, their collection contains ideas, appliances, plans, and propaganda from Europe, the United States, Latin America, Asia, and Africa. Mitchell “Micky” Wolfson Jr.’s unique collection today reaches thousands of students, scholars, and lovers of art and design every year. Built in 1927 to house the Washington Storage Company, the Mediterranean Revival building has been a beacon of culture in Miami Beach for generations, a cornerstone of Miami since 1995, and a jewel of Florida International University since 1997. The structure was enlarged and altered in 1992 by Mark Hampton into the art museum it is today.
Photo by Ebyabe
25. Lincoln theater Located at 555 Lincoln Road, the Lincoln Theatre was designed by Robert E. Collins and was completed in 1936 by the C. R. Clark Construction Company. The Lincoln Theatre building was comprised of a windowless theatre box and a wrapping commercial building that relates to the surrounding streets. An aluminum and glass high arched portal marked the theatre’s entrance. The entrance portal led to a lobby with walls in polished Florida keystone and tall mirrors. Its total seating capacity was over 1000 people. The telescoping walls and curved ceiling of the auditorium were originally simple white plastered surfaces in light to match scenes being played out on stage. In 1990, the theatre closed and was bought by the New World Symphony. N.W.S. then renovated the structure for use as a symphony hall and offices. In 2010, the Lincoln Theatre was restored, modernized and retrofitted for retail use by Shulman + Associates Design Architect.
26. Colony theatre Located in the heart of South Beach on Lincoln Road, the Colony Theatre first opened in 1935 as a Paramount Pictures movie house. Recently, the building underwent a threeyear $6.5 million renovation to restore its original Art Deco grandeur and update its stage and technical equipment. Today, the Colony is a 417-seat state of the art venue proudly managed by Miami New Drama. Its art deco design makes it one of the crown jewels of Miami Beach. The theatre hosts an exciting array of events, including music, dance, comedy, and theatre performances. The Colony Theatre is also home to Miami New Drama’s own exciting theatrical season.
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