Icon Bay / Arquitectonica

Architects: Arquitectonica
Location: 460 Northeast 28th Street, Miami, FL 33137, USA
Area: 754693.0 ft2
Project Year: 2015
Photographs: Robin Hill

Partners In Charge Of Design: Bernardo Fort Brescia, FAIA / Laurinda Spear, FAIA, ASLA, LEED AP
Project Director: Sherri Gutierrez
Project Manager: Mario Macias
Design Team: Sherri Gutierrez, Gustavo Spokoiny, Tonia Long, Mario Macias
Interiors: Lorenzo Cobiella, Michelle Hanna, Leslie Chimelis, Hira Sabuhi, Carla Martinez (former employee)
Landscape Architect : ARQUITECTONICAGEO
Principal In Charge (Arquitectonicageo): Laurinda Spear
Project Director (Arquitectonicageo): Margarita Blanco
Project Manager (Arquitectonicageo): Johanna Morales
Landscape Architects (Arquitectonicageo): Ben Hutchens, Alejandro Perez
Interior Designer: ARQUITECTONICAINTERIORS
Structural Engineers: B&J Consulting Engineering, Inc.
Mep Engineers: Steven Feller P.E.
Civil Engineers: Consulting Engineering & Science, Inc.
Survey Engineers: Triangle
General Contractor: Plaza Construction Group Florida, LLC

From the architect. This thin elongated tower floats over a new waterfront park. It is the first of a new generation of residential towers on Biscayne Bay in that it creates part of a public-private partnership to unlock the value of the bayfront.

Icon Bay opens a once landlocked neighborhood to Biscayne Bay. It also links other sites with a public walk that participates in the Biscayne Line initiative.

The experience is partially open to the sky and partially within a porch of monumental proportions. Following Florida tradition it frames the bay views and provides shelter from the sun and rain.

The building balconies fold playfully along the facades. They create a pattern of light and shadow, reflection and opacity. They appear to flutter in the wind or responding to the ripples of the bay waters. The textured façade breaks the tradition of vertical extrusions in high-rise design.

From within the balcony varying depth create dramatic vantage points at their tips, creating an experience as if standing on the prow of a ship. They also create deep areas for furnishable terraces and shallower verandas that allow light into the spaces beyond.