MAKE BREAKFAST FROM BED BY NINA KORMAN When you least expect it, the craving strikes. You could be watching TV and drifting off to sleep. No matter. You want ice cream. Or a glass of champagne, Maybe both. If you live in one of those rambling, 14,000-square-foot homes or a four-story townhouse at AQUA in…
North Bay Road Residence 2009 Real estate developer extraordinaire Todd Glaser knows Miami Beach. Growing up in South Florida, Glaser worked at Bal Harbour’s Regency hotel, catering to some of the city’s most exciting homes. It was at these exclusive events that Glaser found himself exposed to the designs of Miami Beach’s best and privy…
OKTO PROJECT 2008 The architectural team of Carlos and Jacqueline Touzet, both self-professed China-philes, know that the number eight is auspicious to the Chinese. When they were called on to design the residential project 88 La Goree Circle on La Goree Island, they knew good fortune was in their favor. The Miami developer Todd Glaser…
Interview 2008 BK: TELL ME ABOUT THE NAME – YOU CALL YOURSELVES A STUDIO. JT: WE PUT IT IN OUR NAME TO REMIND OURSELVES THAT WE’RE NOT AN OFFICE OR A CORPORATION; WE’RE A STUDIO, AND TO US THAT MEANS WE DO A LOT OF MODELS. CT: AND IT’S JUST NOT THE PHYSICAL MODEL. WE…
DELANO GUESTROOMS 2007 Delano guest rooms Miami Architecture firm: Touzet Studio, Miami Architecture Project Team: Carlos-Prio Touzet, Moses X. Magro, Tina Soohoo, and Alison Woolf. DOWNLOAD PDF
OKOTO PROJECT 2007 CAN’T BEAT THE BEACH While many news outlets focus on the negatives of the current real-est ate market, the vibrant, upscale homes in Miami’s high- end luxury market prove that for the rich, there’s little to worry about. Open up your local business section and you’ll read the worst: Interest rates are…
PROJECT: VITRI 2006 Vitri ARCHITECT: Touzet Studio. DEVELOPER: Leviev Bovmelgreen. SELLING POINTS: Light and views over Biscayne Bay and South Beach from double- height windows in the living/dining areas; the master baths have doors opening onto a balcony. PRICED: From $600,000 DOWNLOAD PDF
PROJECT: VITRI 2006 THE WITTIEST PROJECT IN MIAMI The Touzet Studio Raises the Bar Again with His-and-Hers Towers The formidably talented architectural husband-and- wife team of Jacqueline Gonzalez-Touzet and Carlos Prio- Touzet has come up with yet another brilliant building to light up our skyline. The Touzet Studio’s much admired, prize-winning design for Vitri in…
VITRI PROJECT 2006 Matthew Radueff always enjoyed visiting Miami as a child, and as an adult, he’s enchanted by the city’s urban cool. So when the 34-year-old film and television producer decided to buy a vacation place, he zeroed in on a loft in South Beach’s Vitri complex, paying $790,000 last year for a 1,400-square…
Project: Vitri 2006 Drive east on the Macarthur Causeway across Biscayne Bay and follow the elevated road- way as it sweeps into Miami Beach. Ahead, tall towers and low rise buildings punctuate the skyline in a blur of geometric shapes; immediately to the left, a 1 l/2-acre parking lot sprawls from Bayfront West Avenue to…