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| West 8 has completed a series of private, public and semi-public landscapes to compliment Renzo Piano’s Eighty Seven Park - a luxury condo building at the northern boundary of Miami beach. |
| Working in collaboration with the world-renowned Renzo Piano Building Workshop, the landscape has enabled the iconic building to float above a lush, 35-acre (14-hectare) Public Park to the south and a two-acre (0.8-hectare) garden to the north. Inspired by the site’s extraordinary setting and the tropical landscapes of South Florida, the private and public, natural and manmade, and indoor and outdoor spaces are seamlessly brought together. |
| Sitting as a bookend against the last plot of open space, Eighty Seven Park is located at the edge of the city where park meets the ocean. Floating above a lush public park – once filled with former villas along Atlantic way – the scheme creates a fresh dialogue with the vibrant community of North Beach. Additionally, the design for Eighty Seven Park carefully preserves and enhances the natural dune system and urban conditions of the South Florida coastline to create a stunning integration of green space, inside and out, allowing the tower to levitate above the lush tropical scenery. |
| In the two-acre tropical oasis on the north side of the property, two elegant water channels and a series of minimalist foot paths guide the viewer from the urban Biscayne Bay out into the Atlantic Ocean. The design carefully preserves and enhances the natural coastal dune system and the urban conditions that characterize the site. Guided by a biotope-zoning plan, the team curated both native coastal species and upland ornamental planting that are visually and spatially stunning. Starting from the beach, clusters of Coconut Palms give way to a grove of Sea Grapes, specially pruned to enhance the distinct silhouettes of each tree. Further upland, a collection of specimen Gumbo Limbos, with their unique multi-trunked form, comprise the heart of the garden and create a transition zone between native coastal species and upland ornamental planting. |
| The success of the design lies in simple and bold interventions that are rooted in a deep appreciation of the site’s ecological and cultural significance. Eighty Seven Park takes the site’s best attributes—its adjacency to the park and ocean, convenient access to the city, and unique coastal ecology—and brings them into harmony to create an urban Eden unlike any other in South Florida. |
| FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: --- |
| CONTACT: pr@west8.com, +31 010-485-5801 |
| SUBJECT: Eighty Seven Park is Officially Complete |
| CLIENT: Terra Group, Bizzi & Partners Development |
| TEAM: Renzo Piano Building Workshop, RDAI Architecture, Lux Populi |
| DESIGN: 2014 - 2016 |
| REALISATION: 2016 - 2020 |
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