Miami Architecture

As you travel through our city, whether on business or pleasure, keep in mind there are some great works of architecture in our great city.  We have some smaller artistic buildings as well as some monstrous designs that add to our skyline!

Check out some of these buildings as you peruse our city and don’t forget your camera so you can capture their brilliance!! 

Overlooking Biscayne Bay, the Vizcaya Museum ( www.vizcayamuseum.org ) is a Renaissance winter home that imitates an Italian villa. Originally, it had a dairy, chicken coop, mule stable and staff residences. Now, it is up to the visitor to imagine the ways of the old world in the new one.

Built in 1938, the Art Deco Building at 1401 SW 5th Avenue in the old Jewish neighborhood is an example of “ Modern Streamline” with its rounded contours, and vertical and horizontal lines.

Built by Reverend Merrick, Coral Gable's first developer, the Colonnade Building is another revival of the Mediterranean style. Its Rotunda is a popular place for receptions. During World War II the Rotunda was used by soldiers to practice parachute jumps.