Mary Street

Coconut Grove, FL

Design architect

Touzet Studio

Building Area

190,500 SF

Building Status

Under construction

This building is located in the vibrant community of Coconut Grove on a shady tree-lined street bocks from the bay. Our design for the solution was to creatively re-skin the existing non-descript parking garage and make the retail more attractive to future tenants by re-skinning the glazing and elevating some of the floor heights. In addition, adding an office component to this highly desirable location allowed us to offer water views for office tenants above.

The project materiality was inspired by the local natural environment of Florida in different ways. The glass volumes relate to the ocean and fresh aquafer waters below the site, while the Louvered volumes took inspiration from the patterning, warm sand and terracotta colors of sea shells. The brise soleil clads the garage has is made of terracotta baguettes, which provides a dappled light effect, inspired by the extensive tree canopy which is essential to the character of Coconut Grove.

Mary Street

Mary Street reinvents a 1980’s garage building with an added floating bar of Class A office buildings overlooking the nearby park and water. Touzet Studio designed the exterior facades as well as custom Interiors for Terra Corporate.

Located at one of the gateway entrances to the Coconut Grove Village Center, this project re-purposes a now tired municipal building and creates contemporary value for the existing structure. The design uses the composition of five main volumes to establish a new presence at a major entry point to the local downtown.

The project’s materiality was inspired by the local natural environment of Florida in various ways: the glass volumes relate to the ocean and fresh aquafer waters below the site while the Louvered volumes took inspiration from the patterning and terracotta colors of seashells and sand. A clear glass volume, curved at both street corners, contains the retail component and the office lobby. The top three-story glass volume houses the main office component. The garage volumes are clad in a screen of square-section, terra-cotta “baguettes,” spaced to allow ventilation and daylight into the volume.