Winwood Gateway Park Competition Winner. Miami.
A large greenhouse-like structure is coming to the corner of Wynwood, at 29th Street and NW 2nd Avenue, just behind the Ducati store, that will house an inventive and really beautiful new park, and privately owned public green space. The winning design for Wynwood Gateway Park in an international design competition held by Tony Cho of Metro 1 Realty to create a park on one of Metro 1’s properties, is sort of a cross between the famous Wynwood Walls site a few blocks down and the belated Enea Bamboo Garden in the Design District, but without the mural art, and with a thin, white superstructure embedded with LEDs that will glow at night and be built around a giant old oak tree on the site. And yes, it looks subtly like Joseph Paxton’s legendary crystal palace, in London, with the tree in the middle.
The winning team picked by the blind jury, which was coincidentally the only local team that submitted to the contest, was a collaboration between FIU’s Nick Gelpi and Roberto Rovira as well as Miami artist Jim Drain. Cho will partially fund the cost of construction, and is confident he can raise the rest through donations and public funding.
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