retail
DUMBO HEIGHTS MIXED-USE DEVELOPMENT At the foot of the Brooklyn Bridge in DUMBO, Zyscovich Architects is converting 80,000 SF of former industrial warehouse buildings into retail and commercial use as part of vibrant, 24/7 high-tech campus. To accommodate new tenant and community needs, the place-making program focused on the physical appearance of buildings as well as the street scene itself, thus a new exciting street network was designed with extensive public plazas, balconies, dynamic exterior lighting, and signage design that maximizes transparency into the retail and lobby levels.
PARKSQUARE AVENTURA MIXED-USE DEVELOPMENT The area’s first pedestrian-friendly, mixed-use community, ParkSquare Aventura was designed with health and wellness in mind and features Active Design Guidelines. A 10-story building with ground level retail, parking, and medical offi ces defi nes the central block. The parking in this building also serves the Aloft Hotel and restaurants on the prominent northwest corner and the assisted living facility that occupies the southwestern block. A parking garage concealed by a seven-story glass office building, retail shops, apartments, and townhomes serves as an entry piece to the community. A green roof and terrace on top of the parking garage links the office building and a residential tower that anchors the eastern block.
BAL HARBOUR SHOPS ENHANCEMENTS In 1965, Bal Harbour Shops opened as the first exclusive, high-fashion shopping center on what had been the site of a World War II Army barracks. Zyscovich Architects is designing an extensive renovation of and addition to this unique, urban open-air shopping center by adding over 325,000 SF of high-end retail and over 1,000 parking spaces. The Master Plan also includes a new anchor store, the addition of public green space and parking to support the new extension. The planning and design of the extension to this distinctive shopping destination will help continue its successful trend and ranking as the most productive shopping center in the United States.
BAYSIDE MARKETPLACE RENOVATION & EXPANSION The Bayside Marketplace Renovation and Addition project includes the renovation of the existing 140,850 SF outdoor mall common areas; the renovation of the existing open-air, 1,200-space, two-level parking garage; the addition of two new levels of parking; and a new 17,500 SF retail liner addition that will comprise a series of tenant shell spaces that face Biscayne Boulevard. The mall renovation also includes a large-scale signage element, a new paint scheme for the exterior of the buildings, piers, bulkheads and exposed structure, new flooring, staircases, restrooms, lighting, landscaping, graphics and signage. The extensive use of glass, industrial metals and stone will harmonize with the character of the landmark bridges in this already exciting and dynamic neighborhood.
MIDTOWN MIAMI MIXED-USE DEVELOPMENT Midtown Miami is one of the largest urban infill development projects in the country, encompassing a 56-acre site. This site was formerly used by the Port of Miami as a storage location and facility for shipping containers. Identified by Zyscovich Architects as a potential mixed-use district in an early plan for the City of Miami, the firm changed the zoning and land use, created two Special District Overlays and Design Guidelines to regulate building form, parking, open space, and uses organized around a hierarchy of different streets, and programmed the development to contain retail, commercial, entertainment and residential uses. The firm also recently completed design of the retail liners for Walmart in the retail component of the development.
BRIGHTLINE/ALL ABOARD FLORIDA STATIONS Zyscovich Architects, in association with another firm, is serving as the master planners, including all entitlements, and co-architects of record for Brightline, formerly All Aboard Florida, a privately owned, operated and maintained passenger rail system. At the Miami station, elevating the railroad tracks along the dense, linear site in the core of downtown Miami allows traffic to flow freely underneath while creating space for two levels of retail. Included in the longterm master plan are parking structures, rental car facilities, bikeways, pocket parks, community gardens, playgrounds, power substations, and other transitoriented developments.
LINCOLN CINEMA RETAIL, ENTERTAINMENT & PARKING The design of the Lincoln Cinema, the first movie theater built on Miami Beach in over 40 years, was a deliberate departure from the generic American multiscreen complex. Honoring its urban setting, Zyscovich Architects determined that the show begins on the street with a tilting wall of colored glass panels that are backlit after dark. Conceptually, glass was applied for its connotations of modernity—of the way it represents openness, lightness, technical innovation, and progressiveness—hallmarks of the era out of which Lincoln Road was born in the 1930s and of the present moment in architecture. The project also includes of retail and restaurant space and a parking garage designed to bring visitors out onto the sidewalk and into the urban experience, rather than directly into the theater.
THE 500 BLOCK OF COLLINS The 500 Block is an ensemble of townhouse-style retail boutiques with a three-level parking garage. Built on one of the most visible commercial sites in South Beach’s historic Art Deco District, a neighborhood of modestly scaled apartments and hotels, the greatest design challenge was maximizing ground level retail while minimizing interior circulation in the parking facility. The firm devised an innovative ramping design that allows the boutiques to inhabit a completely different volume from the garage structure. To further assert the building’s presence at a key portal to the city, the architecture is amplified by an origami-like metal screen that wraps around the building at the corner. Illuminated by a state-of-the-art lighting program, the screen transforms the façade at night.
NEW SCARBOROUGH FARMERS MARKET The New Farmers Market in Tobago is located on a prominent site that serves as the gateway to important neighboring cultural and community facilities. The building’s curved design along its corner location intentionally bifurcates the site to minimize cross traffic between pedestrian and vehicular areas, enhancing safety and creating efficient circulation patterns. The main pedestrian entrance to the market is also located at the entry plaza, allowing easy public access to the building and providing a large gathering space for cultural activities. The building design is a flexible, easy to operate and practical facility, divided into five distinct retail areas, each having the ability to operate independently from the others.