On the corner of North Miami Avenue and 40th street, at the edge of the Design District, stands a... more On the corner of North Miami Avenue and 40th street, at the edge of the Design District, stands a "contemporary ruin" of what used to be a playfully pink architectural intervention titled "The Living Room". The project was designed in 2001 by Argentinean architects Roberto Behar and Rosario Marquardt of R&R Studios. The project began as a warehouse renovation, but the main focus is the large public installation at the building's corner, blurring the lines between art, architecture, and monument. The piece is called the Living Room because the architects had inverted the corner of the building, and through exaggerated scale of domestic imagery created a space that opened up to the street as a sort of "home" for the community. It is a home turned inside out with two forty foot walls enveloping oversized stainless steel lamps, a red concrete sofa, and a five-foot tall clock, and a twelve-foot tall window that frames views of the ever-changing Miami sky. An actual fabric curtain hangs down over what looks like floral wallpaper but is actually hundreds of individually hand painted, pink flowers. The Living Room is an example of an architecture that asks questions, that reevaluates the meaning and role of public life and spaces, and that considers the state of American cities. The Living Room and other works by R&R propose "imaginary solutions for a better world".1 by creating work that has a strong basis in creativity, diversity, and inclusion.
On the corner of North Miami Avenue and 40th street, at the edge of the Design District, stands a... more On the corner of North Miami Avenue and 40th street, at the edge of the Design District, stands a "contemporary ruin" of what used to be a playfully pink architectural intervention titled "The Living Room". The project was designed in 2001 by Argentinean architects Roberto Behar and Rosario Marquardt of R&R Studios. The project began as a warehouse renovation, but the main focus is the large public installation at the building's corner, blurring the lines between art, architecture, and monument. The piece is called the Living Room because the architects had inverted the corner of the building, and through exaggerated scale of domestic imagery created a space that opened up to the street as a sort of "home" for the community. It is a home turned inside out with two forty foot walls enveloping oversized stainless steel lamps, a red concrete sofa, and a five-foot tall clock, and a twelve-foot tall window that frames views of the ever-changing Miami sky. An actual fabric curtain hangs down over what looks like floral wallpaper but is actually hundreds of individually hand painted, pink flowers. The Living Room is an example of an architecture that asks questions, that reevaluates the meaning and role of public life and spaces, and that considers the state of American cities. The Living Room and other works by R&R propose "imaginary solutions for a better world".1 by creating work that has a strong basis in creativity, diversity, and inclusion.
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