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One of the first stops on my tour of Miami Beach with Michele Oka Doner and Micky Wolfson was a single-story 1937 Art Deco post office, which has a rounded classical turret that turns the corner onto Washington Avenue.
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A sun motif in the rotunda at the Miami Beach Post Office.
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Originally called the Miami Beach Municipal Auditorium, this Art Deco gem was renamed the Jackie Gleason Theater when the entertainer moved his variety show here in the 1960s. (It’s now called the Fillmore Miami Beach at the Jackie Gleason Theater.)
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The Wolfsonian Museum.
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Art Deco signage at the Leslie Hotel in South Beach.
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In the 1950s, architect Morris Lapidus redesigned a pedestrian mall with structural forms along a center island of greenery.
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Miami Beach’s Pine Tree Drive.
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The snack bar at the Raleigh hotel, designed in 1940 by acclaimed architect L. Murray Dixon. The hotel has elegant Art Deco interiors and, according to Life magazine, “the most beautiful pool in America.”
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The Raleigh’s neo-Baroque pool.
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A streamlined modern house with a coral stone surround at the entry and a façade that incorporates glass brick.
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One of two private residences designed by Morris Lapidus in Miami Beach. Note the water-color glass ground cover that hints at the water behind the house.
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The construction of the Morris Lapidus–designed Fontainebleau hotel blocked the sun from the adjacent Eden Roc hotel (also designed by Lapidus), earning it the nickname “Spite Wall.”
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Detail of the exterior of the Eden Roc hotel.
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Bal Harbour’s Vista Shores apartments are grouped to simulate a large single residence with a French-inspired neo-Baroque courtyard.
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Bal Harbour’s classically styled Admiralty apartments.
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Michele Oka Doner standing under her sculpture in Doral, the newly developed area west of the Miami International Airport.
