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Miami River Development Features Innovative Residential Unit Design PDF Print E-mail
Written by Lou Ann Frederick   
Friday, 01 September 2006
CIMA and WIND luxury residences cater to owners’ evolving lifestyles

When complete, both CIMA and WIND, two cutting-edge Luis Revuelta designed tower residences that will soon preside over the north bank of the Miami River, will be part of a 13.5-acre urban oasis riverfront community with public access to the property via 900 lineal feet of riverwalk – a public walkway along the Miami River featuring fine restaurants and docking space.

The entire river front development will encompass 2,000 housing units, 50,000 square feet of retail and 200,000 square feet of office space.

Residential luxury can come in many shapes and sizes. Alternatively, it can come in ALL shapes and sizes. In today’s technologically-driven world, formats often dictate functions. Thus, the ability to adapt one’s living environment to fit lifestyle changes can and should be viewed as an additional form of luxury.

While the two sky-reaching structures will no doubt impress with their modern architecture, outstanding community and unit amenities, their K-Rooms™ and ExoRooms™ are true standouts, offering their homeowners a truly individualized living experience unparalleled in South Florida.

The idea of a kinetic room (K-Room™) emerged when architect Luis Revuelta and trailblazing developing phenomenon Lissette Calderon, decided to offer WIND residents energetic living spaces that could be adaptable to their changing lifestyles. When the owner of the residence needs additional space, he may simply take advantage of the K-Room as a home office, a nursery, or an extra family room.

With the ExoRoom™, the Revuelta and Calderon partnership is taking the concept of outdoor living a step further. While view-rich terraces have always been a desirable draw in modern high rises, an ExoRoom™ extends that “living on air” concept even further into 11-feet deep living rooms that form living space which residents may furnish not with conventional outdoor furniture, but with the same style of luxury furnishings that grace the interior of the residence. An outdoor living room, that’s an apt way of describing WIND and CIMA’s ExoRooms.™

Since their introduction, both the K-Room™ and ExoRoom™ concepts have become well developed by Calderon’s firm NEO. Currently, construction for the 41-story WIND is well underway; groundbreaking for CIMA is slated for late 2008.  

CIMA will rise on the corner of S.W. 3rd Street, and South Miami Avenue as a 52-story, 507-unit glass sculpture exuding luxury and style. Its one, two and three-bedroom residences will flaunt spectacular waterfront vistas of Biscayne Bay, the Miami River and the Miami Skyline. SLDT