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Touzet Studio Replaces Art Center With the Art Deco Glamour of Old Burdines
By Sean McCaughan
The Art Center South Florida's former 800 Lincoln Road Building, which originally was Miami Beach's first Burdines Department Store and only the second store in the former chain's history, is getting a well-designed restoration and expansion by developer Tri-Star Capital that will likely return it to retail use. . . The Touzet Studio design restores the building's front and side streamline moderne art deco facades as well as many of the original historic interior details. The original black terrazzo floor is being repaired and restored where needed. Obviously the maze of artists studios that is currently inside the building will be cleaned out, but the historic mezzanine will also have its share of alterations. In the old Burdines it swept through the space, leaving the main, double-height volume open and monumental. Now that sweep will be reduced to a very small swish and the grand interior eliminated in search of salable square footage. Luckily the historic staircase will be saved, historic railings will be retained where possible and retrofitted to current safety codes, and replaced with duplicate railings where necessary. . . The addition has a broad and smoothly curving glass facade under a deep eve that mirrors the thin deco cornice of the original structure.
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