Jungle Plaza is an open-air event space defined by a monumental mural titled Interdimensional Portal, painted by the Brazilian artist Criola. The colorful scene depicts female characters in bold patterns and geometric shapes. This plaza…
Design District Public Art
This walking tour guides you through an ultra-modern neighborhood where high-fashion boutiques double as architectural masterpieces and public art galleries.
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1. Jungle Plaza
2. Le Corbusier Sculpture
The ten-foot fiberglass bust of Le Corbusier, created by French artist Xavier Veilhan, occupies a space on the second floor of Palm Court. This sculpture renders the Swiss architect and visionary in a distinctive, polygonal style achieved…
3. Buckminster Fuller's Fly's Eye Dome
The Fly's Eye Dome is a twenty-four-foot fiberglass sphere covered in large, circular openings that give it the appearance of an insect's eye. Architect Buckminster Fuller designed this structure in nineteen sixty-five as an autonomous…
4. The Moore
The Moore is identifiable by its grand, four-story interior atrium, which is spanned by a sprawling, fluid sculpture titled Elastika. Built during the nineteen twenties Florida land boom, this Neoclassical structure originally served as a…
5. Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami
The Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami, is easily identified by its luminous metal and glass façade, which gives the structure the appearance of a geometric, three-story magic box. Located in the Design District, the building was…
6. Museum Garage
The Museum Garage is a seven-story building that stands out for its facade, which is composed of five wildly different sections that appear to be mashed together. Instead of a uniform exterior, each part of the building skin was designed…
7. Nader Sculpture Park
The Nader Sculpture Park occupies an open-air site at four two zero one Northeast Second Avenue in the Miami Design District. It functions as a gallery space for more than fifty large-scale works by modern and contemporary artists,…