Zaha Hadid's Elastika in Moore Building, Design District

A walk in the Miami Design District is always a wonderful pass time! Furniture stores galore, world famous fashion designer shops.
Enjoy a great lunch at Michael's Genuine Food & Drink.
And take a look inside the Moore Building in the corner of 2nd Avenue and 40th Street and Zaha Hadids permanent installation Elastika. In 2005, Design Miami honored her as Designer of the Year and Elastika was created in response. The atrium is great for events and can accommodate 4,400 people for receptions. Also take a look at the neoclassical Buena Vista Post Office built in 1921.

Do you have enough light in your home?

Think about the function of each room, decide what mood you want to create and consider how the different lighting types will harmonize in any given room.

• Plan to use different types of lighting fixtures for different tasks
• Plan to have illumination flow in different directions
• Plan to position fixtures at different heights
• Plan for different intensity of illumination

The picture shows an old chandelier I found in one of the apartments I renovated. I fixed it, a dimmer decides the intensity, placed it over my contemporary glass dinner table and voila mood, why not romantic is created!

Zaha Hadid at Dansk Arkitektur Center, Copenhagen, Denmark

Back in Miami Beach after wonderful summer months in Sweden, some time also spent in Denmark and with so many fantastic memories to enjoy!
I had a chance to see the exhibition Zaha Hadid - World Architecture at Dansk Arkitektur Center in Copenhagen this August.
It is amazing what she and her Group has designed all over the world, incredible experiments with spatial forms, combining a mathematical approach with new digital tools. They talk about a parametric design, a new style after modernism. Zaha Hadid grew up in Bagdad, went to school in England as a child and studied mathematics at the American University of Beirut. 1972 she returned to England to study at Architectural Association School of Architecture in London.
In 2004, she became the first woman to win the Pritzker Prize. Considered to be the architectural world's Nobel Prize! And she has designed speedboats, jewelry, furniture and lamps as well! What a woman to admire!
And here in Miami Downtown we are looking forward to her creation One Thousand Museum Condo, 706 feet tall at 1000 Biscayne Boulevard. And this building will be tied into the cultural area in Downtown with the Jorge Perez Art Museum Miami and Frost Museum of Science. And with the Adrienne Arsht Center for Performing Arts close by. And the AAA sports and events arena (American Airlines Arena) not to forget.