Between the Miami Beach island and the city’s mainland, outcrops one most recent addition which is the exciting residential building: Iconbay, a luxury residential tower that features its own art collection and waterfront sculpture garden, in addition to the usual well-heeled amenities.
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The locally based architecture firm Arquitectonica, was in charge of the design of this magnificent textured tower. The facade is inspired by ripples on the bay, which has given way to the bas-relief style balconies that poetically emerge from the building.
‘Given its proximity to the water, there was a lot of emphasis on transparency, color and natural light. The artworks are placed in dialogue with their surroundings.’ – Patricia Hanna, art director of Iconbay developers Related Group.
Gym, pool, 24-hour concierge, games room and tennis courts – it boasts its own specially curated art collection that adorns its public spaces and walls, it’s the life lived in this magnificent building. The collection of pieces of art was chosen by Hanna and are integrated only by Latin American artists, such as Eugenio and Lautaro Cuttica, Fernando Reyna Escalona and Agustin Gonzalez fill the building and its grounds.
The first iteration of a larger commitment by Related Group it’s to create a series of shoreside parks all along the bay. Visitors to the park are not only able to enjoy its views; they also have access to Iconbay’s sculpture garden, which is filled with specially commissioned sculptures, thanks to a partnership with the National Young Arts Foundation.
That’s why one of the appealing of Iconbay it is represented by a unique waterfront sculpture garden and public park, both designed by the firm’s landscape design ArquitectonicaGEO. The park, opens up a 400-foot pedestrian link between the city and the bay, making it the first development of its kind to fuse both private and public access in order to make the Biscayne waterfront available to all.
‘Our goal is for residents of our buildings to have the pleasure of living with art and for the artwork to inspire them in some way,’ Hanna concludes.
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Source:: http://designgallerist.com/blog/meet-the-new-miami-tower-and-its-own-curated-art-collection/
