Plans have been filed for a mixed-use project called 111 Wynwood.
The building is proposed to include 12,106 square feet of commercial space.
It will be located on First Avenue, which is a designated pedestrian woonerf.
Here’s how a representative describes the design:
Designed by Touzet Studio, the building massing is composed of a low volume that curves broadly
as it takes the corner from 25th Street to First Avenue. The lower volume engages with a taller
volume – the primary frontage – on First Avenue which is a designated woonerf. The building layout
responds to the pedestrian-friendly woonerf by placing a wide staircase (and bleacher seating band) –
the primary access to the Mezzanine and Second Floor venues – off of First Avenue. The lobby for
the recessed elevator is also accessed from First Avenue.
The taller volume is surfaced in architectural concrete, punctuated by large vitrines that extend out
past the surface of the building and by the deep recess that holds the staircase and seating. The
staircase is lined on one side by the glass wall of the lobby and by a two-story, fissured, cast-
concrete wall that holds pockets of vegetation. Flowering vines pour down over the staircase from
linear beams that extend from the fissured wall to the multi-story lobby.
The length of the ground level of the lower volume consists of a vitrine punctuated by glass entry
doors set back into the volume. The double-height volume that fronts the corner and a portion of the
26th Street facade is illuminated by a long horizontal glass band. At the western end of the volume
the glass gives way to an open-air terrace at the Mezzanine level. The roof terrace above the lower
volume serves as a dining terrace for the Second Floor venue. Horizontal planes, with rendered
soffits, hover over portions of the roof terrace and over the arrival court at the top of the staircase.
The Carlos Prio-Touzet and Touzet Studio-designed mural that covers the surface of the low volume
is a stylized graphic that would represent a coral rock surface on an architectural drawing. Here, the
graphic ironically becomes the cladding itself, inverting what could have been a trompe l’oeil effect.
The two larger facades with spiraling murals are designed by Astro.
A hearing before the Wynwood Design Review Committee is scheduled for July 18.
BH Wynwood Hotel LLC is the applicant.
