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Wynwood Walk in Miami
Lehman Pipe Company Site: Urban Planning Project in Florida, USA – design by Oppenheim Architecture
Jan 8, 2019
Wynwood Walk
Design: Oppenheim Architecture
Location: Miami Design District, Florida, USA
Oppenheim Architecture announces design for Wynwood Walk in Miami
One of the great opportunities for urban design and shaping equitable public space in Miami is in Wynwood. Historically, Wynwood has been a community for working-class families and more recently the centre of Miami?s burgeoning urban art scene.

For decades, this site has been a series of industrial warehouses for the Lehman Pipe Company and is currently lying vacant.
Oppenheim Architecture’s proposal intends to embrace the historic character of the warehouses and neighborhood while reclaiming empty the street front and embracing the new life and economy that is Wynwood?s future.

The scheme is the juxtaposition of the historic and the modern, linked by civic space. A new art park and pedestrian paseo run from 28th Street to 2nd Avenue through a new urban square where cafés and shops spill out into the garden. One face of this new public area is the old warehouse architecture, which will be revitalized with added storefronts and upgraded facades. The other face will be created by strategically placing a single new structure on the once vacant corner.

The two-story structure will have retail...