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PROPOSED: 600 Biscayne tower at Freedom Tower site

logybogy

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Brickell Burg

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Not exactly true. The previous owners (The Mas family along with the Cuban American National Foundation) sunk millions into stablizing the structure and refurbishing it. If it were not for them, the building might be falling down today. They also had plans to turn into a museum and library documenting the exile experience.

http://www.structural.net/News/Media_cover...m_se_const.html

http://www.miamitodaynews.com/news/001116/story2.shtml

I'm not sure why they sold, but I'm sure the money had a lot to do with it.

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Not exactly true.  The previous owners (The Mas family along with the Cuban American National Foundation) sunk millions into stablizing the structure and refurbishing it.  If it were not for them, the building might be falling down today.  They also had plans to turn into a museum and library documenting the exile experience.

http://www.structural.net/News/Media_cover...m_se_const.html

http://www.miamitodaynews.com/news/001116/story2.shtml

I'm not sure why they sold, but I'm sure the money had a lot to do with it.

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I understand. At the same time, you can see that the building still languishes. This will not likely be the case if 600 Biscayne is approved.

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Roark Unincorporated Area

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This has become a topic loaded up with more emotion and crazy logic than a fight with an Argentine girlfriend...

Keeping it simple (and hopefully, logical)...no mater what happens with 600 Biscayne, the Miami News/Freedom Tower will be overshadowed by tall buildings. For example, see the top of Freedom Tower...in three weeks you wont be able to see it from here...

freedomtowerfrom395.jpg

Unless you are right on top of it...just about every building will block ithe little tower out.

The LAND OWNER of 600 Biscayne is donating the significant portion of the Miami News Building/Freedom Tower to the public and will modify it to make it USEFUL.

This is what Pedro Martin is proposing to destroy, for example,

FreedomTowerback.jpg

Wow! Mobilize the protesters. Do they have any idea what they are trying to save?

And if the protest is that the property owner wants to build as big as his competition and the law allows...whose opinion of what is big or too big should the rightful owner of the property listen too?

No Dale, Water Tower is beautiful and active with more pedestrians in a day than the Miami News/Freedom Tower has counted in the last 10 years.

And, my limited knowledge and memory can only think of one other historic treasure that was modified with a glass entrance.

The architect, a Miami local, has taken great care to give reverence to the existing structure and has made a great statement in my minority opinion.

You can hazard a guess and suppose that when it was proposed, supporters of IM Pei's glass entrance to the Louvre were probably in the minority too.

C'est la vie.

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Brickell Burg

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That's the back side of Freedom Tower. It was the printing plant when it was the Miami News building. As others have said, it's not currently protected, only the facade.

Others shots showing the whole buyilding, here:

http://users.pandora.be/pixel/Pictures/usa...dom%20Tower.JPG

and here:

http://www.hitachi-deco.co.jp/coffee/gif/pict67.jpg

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timae305 Crossroads

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This has become a topic loaded up with more emotion and crazy logic than a fight with an Argentine girlfriend...

Keeping it simple (and hopefully, logical)...no mater what happens with 600 Biscayne, the Miami News/Freedom Tower will be overshadowed by tall buildings.  For example, see the top of Freedom Tower...in three weeks you wont be able to see it from here...

freedomtowerfrom395.jpg

Unless you are right on top of it...just about every building will block ithe little tower out. 

The LAND OWNER of 600 Biscayne is donating the significant portion of the Miami News Building/Freedom Tower to the public and will modify it to make it USEFUL.

This is what Pedro Martin is proposing to destroy, for example,

FreedomTowerback.jpg

Wow!  Mobilize the protesters.  Do they have any idea what they are trying to save?

And if the protest is that the property owner wants to build as big as his competition and the law allows...whose opinion of what is big or too big should the rightful owner of the property listen too? 

No Dale, Water Tower is beautiful and active with more pedestrians in a day than the Miami News/Freedom Tower has counted in the last 10 years.

And, my limited knowledge and memory can only think of one other historic treasure that was modified with a glass entrance. 

The architect, a Miami local, has taken great care to give reverence to the existing structure and has made a great statement in my minority opinion.

You can hazard a guess and suppose that when it was proposed, supporters of IM Pei's glass entrance to the Louvre were probably in the minority too.

C'est la vie.

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