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despite a world-renowned /There is genius in the design; the way Art Deco skyscrapers row with a clear architectural /” ott.
practice and reputation—is in it's high-spirited and modern, did in the 1930s.Slender verti- pattern,separates the two tow- ~
many ways the inheritor to the the way modern used to be — cal fins, painted a signature ers and provides for an out //// 10...„3,
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Miami tradition of showy clean,crisp and a bit audacious yellow, point the towers door gathering space;there are
modernity, an exuberant and — enough so to have come upward in a energetic architec- two pools — a bigger one for El ,,,,,, ° : '
celebratory style that began straight from a World's Fair. tural gesture. But as with the families, and on the second- 1 - ..
with Art Deco and continued The architecture is deft and best Art Deco buildings, story deck, a smaller one for
on through the 1950s with what crisp and light the way build- upward isn't the only direc- cooling off. The complex's — I1
we now call MiMo (or Miami ings were in the 1930s,'40s and tion; the pale gray balconies main restaurant has been ` � IN N3 lb V�
Modern) and the work of the '50s; after that, far too many angle out from the new towers designed by the Miami Beach-
late Morris Lapidus. Miami buildings became inex- to create a syncopated rhythm, based pop artist and entrepre- -:-',...,o
No other architects have plicably clunky, as if their like a Gene Krupa drumbeat. neur Romero Britto, who �\N;ti , — —
done it better than Arquitec- architects were designing with The buildings are very— dare painted every column and k\;,, \ t--4,,_;;;,;;.
tonics, at least to date,and the fists rather than fingers. one say it? — jazzy. adorned much of the wall . —Royal Palm stands as evidence. Arquitectonica did not try space with his multi-hued ;�\*
TWO FRONTS � �
Its design takes its first cues to compete with the more elab- work; suffice it to say it's \ �. , t 0j� 5,19 4
from Art Deco, most particu- It is important to note that orate decoration of the typical plenty bright in there. '� -0,4,
larly from the historic build- this is an urban beachfront stucco Deco building in Miami,
ings in the complex.Art Deco hotel,part of the city's conven- where incised panels of con-
was an architecture about tion center neighborhood,and crete or keystone would show GROWING PAINS weight_ioss
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movement — up and down, that means it really has two abstractions of flora or fauna; The Royal Palm was born in
side-to-side,forward and back- "fronts," one facing the street the decoration on the stucco controversy,after Miami poli-
ward — and about rhythm, and one facing the beach. was kept simple and geomet- ticians snubbed Nobel Prize-
both
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regular and syncopated. Streetside, it is sophisticated ric. winning South African leader
It was, after all,the style of — set back at a respectful dis- The two older buildings, Nelson Mandela and black 1
the age of jazz, the era of the tance and in line with others in both beauties, were con- Americans(and others world-
silver screen, and a new world that block of Collins; out structed between 1939 and wide) began to boycott the thighs ma
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of streamlined transportation. "back" by the beach, though, 1941; the Royal Palm was city, canceling conventions birth to gi
And though it is asking a lot of Arquitectonica let the design designed by Donald G. Smith, and vacations. As a compro- the job done. Not these days, Perhap
any architectural style to corn- soar a bit. and the Shorecrest by the firm mise, the city of Miami Beach when the strict bodily stan- "But the sl
municate a decade of cultural There's the 17-story cylin- of Kiehnel and Elliott. agreed to subsidize a black- dards set by supermodels and The fashit
and technological change, drical tower appended to the Though the Shorecrest owned convention hotel, and top Hollywood stars dictate declared t
somehow Art Deco encapsu- Shorecrest. There's a conical lobby is not yet renovated(it is in 1996,developer R.Donahue that no woman is supposed to fashionab
lated it all. staircase at one end of the pool awaiting a restaurant tenant), Peebles was selected to create weigh more than her lipstick. azine rat
By the 1950s, the architec- deck,a highly geometric stair- the reconstructed Royal Palm the Royal Palm complex. How do these celebrities wherein
ture was somewhat less about case up to a second-story pool lobby is a simple showplace, Further controversy came stay so impossibly thin? Sim- were norr
culture and more about the deck, and a cut-out wall to with its terrazzo floors and as it became clear the historic ple: They have full-time per- No offe
future,but that was the coun- frame views of the building. backlit check-in desk. The Royal Palm building had per- sonal trainers, who advise This is a'
try's preoccupation itself; the There's an outdoor pool bar lobby features much of the vasive structural damage from them on nutrition, give them the fashi
buildings of the era — espe- with a cylindrical roof making hotel's original furniture, internal steel corrosion (the pep talks, and shoot them with every few
cially in Miami—nonetheless clear reference to the era when recovered of course, with the concrete was mixed with salt tranquilizer darts whenever lions of n
signature circular banquet water, and over the years the they try to crawl, on hunger- to go to
right in the center. Off to one steel reinforcements were weakened limbs, toward the stores, I(
HIT'S A BRILLIANT FILM!" side is the hotel's bar in what damaged beyond repair) and packet of rice cakes that con- clothes thl
was the television room; would have to be recon- stitutes the entire food supply to discov
ROGER EBERT though it's not in place yet, structed rather than restored. in their 37,000-square-foot industry I
ii there will be a TV there once It is a controversy that is mansions.For most celebrities, only for I
DAGGER, STOPPARD AND DIRECTOR again. not,even six years into it,fully the biggest meal of the day is wear size
MICHAEL APTED DELIVER A RIVETING AND DERIVE FROM OLD resolved. But the complex is toothpaste (they use reduced- "I'm s
finished and finally open, and fat Crest). have that
SURPRISINGLY ROMANTIC RIDE. THE FILM The new public spaces it is a pleasure to behold. The will be to
Arquitectonica designed architecture is adroit and even pound salt
Is MIND-TWISTING FUN, WITH FIRST-RATE derive from the old without a bit saucy,just as it should be, WHAT'S WILLPOWER? and leave
PERFORMANCESi I' being imitative; if Art Deco in homage to a place and its But you don't have a per- mail slot
It ,';: -'' b -PETER 1•RAVERS,ROLLING STONE owes much to Cubism,Arqui- times. sonal.trainer,which means you across the
tectonica owes more,perhaps, One can almost take a trip have to rely on willpower.And Duds for
"ENIGMA:A STUNNING to abstraction. There's a ter- through recent history by of course you don't HAVE any So who
' ESPIONAGE DRAMA." rific terrazzo floor that seems looking at the Royal Palm, and willpower. If you did,you'd be to prepay
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