The Legendary CONTINUUM in Miami Beach Unveils a New Era in Urban Design

The iconic luxury residences successful Miami Beach completes its two-year renovation with the award-winning ArquitectonicaGEO

The acclaimed Continuum oceanfront residences successful Miami Beach has unveiled a caller conservational translation that marks the archetypal overhaul of the property’s grounds successful its 22-year history. South Florida’s archetypal pioneer successful modern luxury surviving has transformed its onshore into a exemplary of architectural excellence with an underlying advancement successful structural engineering innovation.

The Continuum connected South Beach Master Association commissioned the award-winning scenery architectural plan steadfast ArquitectonicaGEO to make an outdoor conception for the Continuum that would alteration and modernize the pedestrian and conveyance entranceway with the adjoining grounds of the property. The extremity was to elevate the wide “Arrival Experience” arsenic much charismatic for residents and visitors. The firm’s originative designers specializing successful resilient and beauteous scenery architecture, unneurotic with sister companies ARQUITECTONICAINTERIORS and ARQUITECTONICASTUDIO, developed a imaginativeness that would infuse a much lavish and tropical plan aesthetic for the entryway and accomplishment areas, with improved livability and caller gathering materials. As a result, the strategical “beautification” of the residential accomplishment acquisition has besides brought caller beingness and vitality to the surrounding South of Fifth vicinity successful Miami Beach and its pedestrian precinct.

In summation to the functional landscaping and an enhanced entryway situation supra ground, the halfway instauration of the spot implicit the accomplishment areas was besides refurbished to guarantee structural integrity and semipermanent preventative attraction beneath the surface.  Some of the astir indispensable enactment carried-out for the duration of the redevelopment task was undertaken by Willcott Engineering and Baltimore based Concrete Protection & Restoration (CP&R), a structural contractor specializing successful factual restoration.  Paving connected the roadway on the little and precocious entranceway levels was replaced to let for a brand-new drainage web to beryllium installed supra the immense underground parking garage.

“We are precise excited to uncover our long-awaited redevelopment task that has afloat transformed the accomplishment acquisition passim the property,” says Rishi Idnani, Managing Director astatine the Continuum. “Not lone person our grounds been elevated to a much modern-day and appealing plan aesthetic, but the underlying bedrock of our assemblage has been upgraded to a state-of-the-art level of information pursuing an extended play of evaluation.  We person taken immense measures to guarantee the semipermanent structural integrity and resilience of our onshore and buildings, taking into relationship the assertive quality of South Florida’s situation and corrosive beachfront elements that effect each oceanfront development. The enactment we person completed volition support the Continuum for aboriginal decades and embellish the earthy beauty, tranquility and biodiversity of our esteemed neighborhood.”

The Roadway Entrance, Lower Rotunda, Security Gatehouse, Upper Rotunda and Valet areas each underwent a scenery redesign by ArquitectonicaGEO. Pedestrians utilizing the roadway entranceway volition present bask 2 wider parallel walkways successful to the spot portion passing alongside recently planted hedges, ferns and autochthonal gangly Floridian writer that enactment the roadworthy connected either broadside and down the center, to abstracted the recently cobbled roads flowing successful some directions. Additional trees person besides been planted connected either broadside of the entranceway roadworthy among a fig of Date Palms and Florida Thatch Palms. The Lower Rotunda introduces a caller travel of postulation astir a azygous Specimen Tree that replaces a erstwhile fountain fixture. 

The Security Gatehouse sits astatine the extremity of a raised polished grey factual works fixture that runs parallel to the entranceway ramp, containing assorted specimens of lavish shrubbery draped astir 2 ample Florida Thatch Palm trees that place respective smaller palms.  The beforehand information gatehouse has been wholly reimagined and is stationed astatine the apical of the ramp, implicit with tinted achromatic solid and encased successful achromatic squared polished slabs of tile for a striking declaration against the airy grey brickwork beneath. The Upper Rotunda is simply a immense circular opening and an awesome centerpiece, that serves vehicles entering and exiting, portion separating accomplishment areas for some Continuum North Tower and South Tower residents and their guests. Acting arsenic the cardinal land that governs the travel of traffic, is simply a recently installed circular Infinity Fountain fixture, encased successful polished blue-grey granite stone, surrounded by semi-circular works beds, adding a ample embellishment of colour from a hand-picked enactment of matching flowers, shrubs, foliage and vegetation. Valet Arrival and Departure Areas person been extended and reinforced with Camaru wood, projecting from extracurricular each entrance.  Plant and histrion taxon that enactment either broadside of the valet areas for some towers see the Autograph Tree, Pigeon Plum, Green Buttonwood and Gumbo Limbo, intermingled with Date Palms and Florida Thatch Palms. At some the roadway entranceway and information gross entrances sits a marque caller Continuum motion with bold achromatic letters, fixed connected a ample chromatic plaque made from a unsocial metallic decorativeness known arsenic Kynar.

Every furniture of the roadways and thrust lanes that formed the introduction constituent to the Continuum were uplifted, restored and replaced. The archetypal signifier started astatine the angled introduction roadworthy into the property, starring from South Pointe Drive to the Lower Rotunda. The information entranceway and adjacent roadway would subsequently beryllium refurbished, followed by instauration enactment astir the Upper Rotunda.  Approximately 100,000 quadrate feet of the Continuum’s entryway was wholly renovated, whereby the deepest structural slabs were exposed and repaired, to uncover a waterproofing strategy that was removed, replaced and upgraded to a state-of-the-art system. Topping slabs were past replaced utilizing a specialized repair mortar and 4000 PSI prime factual that allowed for a last furniture of pavers to beryllium positioned alongside caller curbing.

Due to the bulk of the accomplishment country astatine the Continuum lying connected apical of the property’s underground parking garage, the caller waterproofing strategy proved indispensable to regenerate and upgrade successful bid to support the bones of the gathering and structural integrity of the parking abstraction roofing. In summation to a recently installed blistery rubberized asphalt waterproofing network, a state-of-the-art bi-level drainage strategy was placed connected top, that would forestall h2o from mounting connected the structural slabbing, frankincense protecting the precocious layers of concrete. This premium drainage strategy would besides forestall decay, rusting and oxidization of the accepted reinforcing bars and station hostility cables wrong the factual itself, preventing the alloy to grow and origin cracking. The full restoration enactment is estimated to support the instauration of the Continuum for astatine slightest 20 years.

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