Miami might be famous for beaches and all the pretty people posing, but it is also renowned for another treat – Art Deco architecture.
The main hub of this can be found on Ocean Drive that runs parallel to Miami Beach and will have you humming ‘that’ song for days to come . .
I am a bit of an architecture fan so naturally I have to do a post dedicated to this stunning slice of slightly surreal real estate.
Below are the streamline shapes of The Breakwater built in 1939 and The Imperial built in 1939.
Wikipedia says this about the gorgeous sleek buildings: “The designs are often described as evoking technological modernity, resilience, and optimism.
“The Miami Beach Art Deco Museum describes the Miami building boom as coming mostly during the second phase of the architectural movement known as Streamline Moderne, a style that was “buttressed by the belief that times would get better, and was infused with the optimistic futurism extolled at American’s World Fairs of the 1930s.”
Below you can see just a few of the pastel delights including The Leslie built in 1937 and The Netherlands Hotel built in 1935.
I am very taken with the lemon stripes of The Leslie and the teal and orange geometric shades of the McAlpin built in 1940.
It’s not all serene and sedate though, as night falls the neon flickers into life all along Ocean Drive!
And the clubs start to gear up for all the party people to see, be seen and gyrate the night away.
