Design

The Architects Who Made Miami ‘Magic’

No one has expressed Miami’s glamour, boldness, and precarious beauty quite like Arquitectonica.
The Atlantis, Miami© Norman McGrath

Certain cities arise in the most unlikely of places, out of the most unnatural of circumstances. From St. Petersburg emerging in the blink of an eye out of misty swampland, to Dubai shooting up at internet velocity from the dunes of the United Arab Emirates, to Las Vegas appearing like a colorful mid-century mirage in the Nevada desert, these places are simultaneously triumphs of human ingenuity and precarious symbols of hubris in the face of time and nature.

It is through architecture that, singular and unique to themselves, they grow into more than willful phantasms and become real, durable entities in the international psyche.