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Frankfurt is a much better comparison. For one thing both cities are organized around walking or walking + transit and adapted later for cars. This place in Florida like most places there is totally organized around car travel. Densely developed but not really a walking type of city.
Yes, except for that giant sand beach out front,
the North Miami Intercoastal area is morbidly non-walk-able.
The Govt Center Garage project a.k.a. 1 Congress/50 Sudbury
is classic Hallandale/Sunny Isles, as are the recent residential highrises.
When Central Wharf (Boston) goes, up: add one more Miami white castle.
*i love the Frankfurt comparison. Very Boston-like,
business wise + urbanity.
Yes, except for that giant sand beach out front,
the North Miami Intercoastal area is morbidly non-walk-able.
The Govt Center Garage project a.k.a. 1 Congress/50 Sudbury
is classic Hallandale/Sunny Isles, as are the recent residential highrises.
When Central Wharf (Boston) goes, up: add one more Miami white castle.
*i love the Frankfurt comparison. Very Boston-like,
business wise + urbanity.
Took a google map tour of Sunny Isles. I see it. Especially with Back Bay. Replace the mid-rise condos with brownstones and voila.
Miami's, and Southeast Florida's tower game has a differentiator that isn't consistently solved: outdoor living space.
Compared to many other cities/metros, the amount of towers dedicated to housing is outsized. While discrete (and often small) terraces are added to residential towers elsewhere, it's nearly universal that towers in Florida have to have usable outdoor space in order to sell, and not just a place to step outside for a smoke. It's a dilemma that yields a lot of tacky design decisions that attempt to hide/make sense/mitigate the demand for such spaces. Successful towers, in my opinion, think about their terraces in an integrated way, while others come off looking like they were attached and then decorated.
In the end, Miami's skyline starts to look like that of other tropical climates in places like Panama City, Panama, rather than in other American cities like Boston.
Comparing just Hallandale Beach to Boston is kind of weird. Especially without clear categories.
Is this mostly a skyline battle? If so, while they’re similar heights and widths, I think a big difference is office vs residents buildings between the two.
Yep. It's really loopy to compare the two. Boston is office towers, not high rise and mid rise condos. In 2021, it also doesn't make sense to use photographs of Back Bay to talk about the skyline.
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