{"id":94973,"date":"2025-08-19T18:51:02","date_gmt":"2025-08-19T18:51:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/94973\/"},"modified":"2025-08-19T18:51:02","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T18:51:02","slug":"downtown-miamis-cultural-center-plaza-the-next-miami","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/94973\/","title":{"rendered":"Downtown Miami\u2019s Cultural Center Plaza \u2013 The Next Miami"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Photos by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/southbeachcars\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Phillip Pessar<\/a> show the Miami-Dade Cultural Center Plaza in Downtown Miami earlier this week.<\/p>\n<p>The plaza was completed in 1983 and has nearly an acre of tiled area, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.miamiherald.com\/news\/local\/community\/miami-dade\/downtown-miami\/article264441606.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">according to the Herald<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It was designed by famed architect Phillip Johnson, who was selected for the project in 1972.<\/p>\n<p>Johnson was said to have been inspired by Italian architecture and Vizcaya for the design of the Cultural Center.<\/p>\n<p>Miami-Dade now <a href=\"https:\/\/www.miamidade.gov\/global\/service.page?Mduid_service=ser1507132994147396\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">offers<\/a> the space for event rentals, and is considering a redevelopment plan that could see it demolished altogether.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/oaodDnX.jpeg\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/oaodDnX.jpeg\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\"\/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/mb9tV2o.jpeg\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/mb9tV2o.jpeg\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>(photos: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/southbeachcars\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Phillip Pessar<\/a>)<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Photos by Phillip Pessar show the Miami-Dade Cultural Center Plaza in Downtown Miami earlier this week. The plaza&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":94974,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[228,226,227,229,88],"class_list":["post-94973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94973\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}