ArchitectonicaGO

            The second stop of our Saturday field trip session was at a landscape architecture firm called ArchitectonicaGO. ArchitectonicaGO is in charge of the landscape architecture of the immense project of Brickell City Centre. Brickell City Centre is being developed by Swire Properties, a very respected multinational real estate firm that has undertaken huge projects all over the world. The speakers name was Giovanni, who since the beginning was in charge of the landscaping of this project.

            Brickell City Center is a 12-acre project undergoing right smack in the middle of Brickell, which some can argue is the most exclusive and high-end area in Miami. This project consists of 4 towers, and a retail component with a huge mall. This project consists of one office tower, one residential tower, one hotel tower, and a mix use that consist of a boutique hotel and more residential above, the developer is looking to approve up to 1000 ft of height. As you can imagine the landscaping involved with this development is enormous, so the amount of detail in the presentation slide was on point. This is going to be one of the first projects that is going to include green roofs in South Florida. ArchitectonicaGO decided to bring in more native species to bring that undeveloped look of Miami before humans came in to destroy everything.  The landscaping was beautiful, really detailed to the tiniest thing, and did everything so gorgeous looking that I cannot wait until this project is completed.

            In this particular project I really learned to appreciate how important landscaping can be for the look and the feel of the project, not only is this a requirement now days by the city, but also with out the landscaping the project would not look as visually appealing as It looks now