Design District Tour

On this, our first vacation as a family of three, we spent a little more than 48 hours in Miami (followed about another 48 hours at a conference center-resort facility in Aventura -- 15 miles north of the city). One of the highlights of our visit was our Monday afternoon walk through Miami's Design District.

It was good destination for touring with a newborn, because it was empty on on Monday... and one of us was welcome to cry as much as he needed to.

The place reminded us of the area in Buenos Aires that we stayed most recently, Paleremo Viejo, because it was a bastion for hip Latin, design-oriented culture. The only big difference was that nobody actually *lives* in the Design District, so it had a sterility to it.

Two of the cooler architectural sites in the district involved moving interior design into an explicitly exterior environment.

In the first case, the Living Room Building included an over-sized sculpted living room attached to the corner facade of a building.

In the second case, we stumbled across vacant lot that had been built up to house an immaculately landscaped Lounge, complete with permenant outside lounge furniture and populated with manicured bamboo plantings.