Four Proposed Miami Developments Even Crazier Than City Square
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| via Miapolis.com |
| No, this is not Saruman's evil lair -- it's the tallest building in the world, proposed for Jungle Island. |
Don't forget this is a town that thrived because of Henry Flagler's certifiably lunatic plan to build a railroad all the way through the Florida Keys. Loco land barons are our lifeblood. Click through for four real proposals so whacked-out that even we have rejected them (so far, at least):
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| via Miapolis.com |
It's the world's tallest building -- putting Dubai's Burj to shame -- and it rises from the ashes of Jungle Island. Backer Guillermo Socarras still has a flashy website and claims to be lining up donors for Miapolis, but this one seems to have as much chance of materializing as a Kendrick Meek comeback.
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| courtesy David Fisher |
That's just what Italian architect David Fisher proposed in 2008 with his Dynamic Tower, a stack of 20,000-square-foot condos hung from a central column and constantly rotated by wind-powered turbines. If this thing can also morph into a combo Pizza Hut/Taco Bell, it might actually get some customers.
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| This is Dubai's indoor ski slope, which North Miami would like to copy. |
That's what the notoriously crooked government of North Miami thought, at least. In April, the city sold a 193-acre former toxic waste dump on Biscayne Bay to two developers who have proposed building Solar Mountain, an indoor ski resort with a 550-foot hill, a 163-meter jump, and ice-skating rinks.
The project is still technically in the works, but you can plan to strap on your skis around the same time Hugo Chávez enters a gay marriage with Dubya.
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| courtesy Historical Museum of South Florida |
| The Interama tower would have been surrounded by water and accessible only by tunnel. |
Alas, only the federal government had the cash to pull off such an ambitious plan, and even Tricky Dick ultimately found this one a little too crazy to stomach.
Comments (9)
A ski slope in North Miami? Hmm, no thanks!
Posted On: Monday, Nov. 8 2010 @ 11:38AMI'm starting to think this reporter is being paid off to stop this City Square project, his bias and non-objectivity is mind blowing.
Posted On: Monday, Nov. 8 2010 @ 3:58PMI actually LOVE City Square and think the towers are cool. Wonder why this reporter has such problem with this project.
Posted On: Monday, Nov. 8 2010 @ 4:04PMSome of us actually like the city square project. Hope this means the reporter won't be shopping or eating there once it's open.
Posted On: Monday, Nov. 8 2010 @ 4:10PMI don't think a retail center, parking garage and large lit up media towers are a crazy idea. Time Square is cool. What's crazy is to keep that area dark, homeless and drug addicts. I live a block from the City Square site and I can't wait for this project to get built. But you're right, some of those other project look stupid.
Posted On: Monday, Nov. 8 2010 @ 4:14PMThe only "monstrosity" is the way the site around the PAC currently looks. Not sure why folks are so afraid of a couple ad towers. Times Square looks pretty cool. What's the big deal?
Posted On: Monday, Nov. 8 2010 @ 4:21PMI like these towers and what City Square will bring to my neighborhood (retail, shops, movies, entertainment). Guess that makes me "tasteless". Seems Mr. Elfrink prefers the slum conditions and current awful status there now to this Development. Let me guess, he doesn't live there.
Posted On: Monday, Nov. 8 2010 @ 4:28PMI don't mind city square by itself. But I do not want the two billboards. What is not mentioned is that the light from those billboards can be seen for 20 miles in every direction. That's from downtown to Hollywood. And all the way over to I-75.
The Herald reported that a few months ago.
Now Mr. Anonymus, I bet you that you would like all of that light pouring in your window at 4:00am?
Posted On: Monday, Nov. 8 2010 @ 5:07PMWe already have too much Condo development, retail, shops, restaurants and movies. That is why so many are going under these days. Don't you people look around you and Don't you get it?
Posted On: Monday, Nov. 8 2010 @ 9:44PMThere is not enough traffic to sustain what we have now much less all these proposed ridiculous projects.
We ain't New York City! They get millions of bodies going through there continuously from all over the world.
We need more white elephants?