Design
The Death (and Life?) of Miami's Marine Stadium
The all-concrete stadium has been rotting since the early 1990s. Can it be saved? Should it be?
The trip across the elevated platform to the room that hangs from the roof of the Miami Marine Stadium, some 100 feet in the air, is perilous. The platform itself is rotted, and the last step to the suspended boxcar-like room traverses a bright hole in the walkway. It’s an unsubtle warning that the trip you’re making is stupid.
Once in the room, you’re still not safe – or, at least, you don’t feel safe. The ground is sturdier, but the structure is corroded and seems as if it is about to crash to the ground, bringing the stadium’s great concrete roof down with it.