New Downtown Miami Courthouse Tower Tops Off

Miami-Dade’s new civil courthouse appears to have topped off.

The courthouse tower was expected to rise 25 stories, or 474 feet above ground.

A private developer is building the courthouse in exchange for payment from the county.

HOK is the architect.

 

 

(bottom four photos: Phillip Pessar)

 

 

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anonymous
6 months ago

very odd design, but at least its almost done – now the old court house needs to become and office/hotel use to activate this part of town

EJS
6 months ago

Or the old courthouse could be a new Miami City Hall!

Anonymous
6 months ago

It wasn’t cost-effective to renovate as a courthouse, so to renovate into a city hall would be no different.

Anonymous
6 months ago

How is renovating to a city hall more costly than renovating to a completely different use?

Anonymous
6 months ago

^didn’t say MORE costly, said similar cost–same amount of asbestos to be removed, plumbing and wiring to be replaced, walls to be refinished, windows to be replaced, etc.

Anonymous
6 months ago

That would be a great use, but the private sector will figure out a more productive use

Anonymous
6 months ago

They cant renovate it because theres asbestos in the walls which would cost too much to remediate.

Anonymous
6 months ago

So… demolish a historically protected building for a triple tower Melo project? Please… Plenty of historic buildings have been remediated from asbestos and renovated to the point they are more green than modern buildings, especially when from an era before air conditioning.

Johnson
6 months ago

Naw, make it a brewery/food market

Anonymous
6 months ago

Far too big for such a niche use. Frankly, it would be better for the old-old Federal Courthouse and Post Office around the corner, where there were some plans, but is left to rot.

Foodie
6 months ago

There is more than enough of overpriced Food Hall in Miami

wanderer34
6 months ago

I’ve thought about the old Miami Dade Building becoming the new Miami City Hall but it’s best to build a brand new modern building in either the Govt Center or Bayside!

Name
6 months ago

Miami City Hall would be ideal but they don’t want it that way.

Ray Charles
6 months ago

Such a beautiful building!

Anonymous
6 months ago

Downvote changed to upvote as soon as I saw the name. Lol

Hello
6 months ago

Courthouse looks like a prison wtf

Anonymous
6 months ago

Its to help transition the guilty to their new homes behind bars

Cover the Podiums
6 months ago

Missed opportunity for something special. Now, its just one big concrete, brutalist wall that will be an eye sore for the next 200 years.

Anonymous
6 months ago

I predict that by the year 2060 it gets converted into an institute for the deaf and blind. Prison architecture and 3 inches away from the Metrorail tracks….this place was made for them.

Anonymous
6 months ago

It’s not going to last 200 years. Frankly, I’ll be surprised if it lasts a quarter of how long the old courthouse was occupied.

Melo is sigma and chad
6 months ago

Can the county start a plan on what they will do to the current courthouse. They need to get a developer that will actually renovate it and not have it linger like the State courthouse owned by MDC.

Anonymous
6 months ago

that dyer courthouse is the most beautiful building in miami…..the detail is fantastic….and there it sits decaying ….i bet the county and the college are doing a study to see if a study would be necessary to obtain a study……blah blah blah…..

Anonymous
6 months ago

Federal, actually. But for the love of God, do NOT donate it or any more historic buildings to MDC.

Bruno
6 months ago

I’ve said it a dozen times…
An official at MDC told me that the old courthouse is currently being refurbished after a long asbestos mitigation and removal.
It will soon be a state of the art robotics lab among other offerings.

Anon
6 months ago

There is NEVER a person on that property….hope the robots are in charge soon…..

Anonymous
6 months ago

Why are the windows so oddly placed and disjointed? An atypical design should still have some type of designed vision so it doesn’t look random and haphazardly put together.

Anonymous
6 months ago

Apparently it supposed to look cool and edgy, or some nonsense, but only makes a boring box hideous.

Anonymous
6 months ago

A box would look nicer. You can be edgy while still having some organized pattern and thought about the overall composition. It looks like they tried to mismatch the windows, but didn’t go far enough, and looks like a mistake.

BOB
6 months ago

For government project seems like it went up pretty fast

Johnny nyc
6 months ago

Put a couple of live music venues on Flagler street some good restaurants. Some night clubs. Make that area attractive for young people to coke down and spend money and live there as well. Change the street lights.

Howard Roark
6 months ago

The hotel chain 21c could do a fantastic job with the old courthouse.

Bruno
6 months ago

Check LeMeridien in Tampa.
Exceptional courthouse rehab by Kobi Karp.

Alpina
6 months ago

Unimpressive HOK design, but my main concern is the amount of stucco and how poorly is always done in Miami…depending on the time of day, the shadows give away the imperfections. I have never seen one good example of flawless stucco application.

Yet Another Anonymous
6 months ago

It is 24 stories right now but it is nowhere near 474 ft. It’s only about as tall as the old courthouse and much shorter than government center. The height is wrong, the renders also show it being much shorter than 474 ft.

Yet Another Anonymous
6 months ago

It is 25 stories already but not 474 feet.

Name
6 months ago

It actually looks good so far. I’m sure as soon as the stucco goes on is when it goes down hill.

Bunny
6 months ago

This courthouse looks oddly familiar like the Broward county courthouse and the courtrooms looks exactly like Broward’s.

don shula
6 months ago

beautiful design…