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On a 8.5 acre private island in Miami Beach sits a Modernist neighborhood comprised of 3 midrise, waterfront condominiums and 46 island homes. With an equal balance of luxury and sophistication, AQUA promises a tropical lifestyle unparalleled by any community, anywhere. Occupancy late 2004. Come see our visionary condos and island houses.

Mid-Rise Condos

Chatham
The design of the Chatham references the International Style buildings that characterize the post-Art Deco period of Miami Beach using the vocabulary of abstract lines, glass planes and geometric solids combined with colorful murals to evoke the tropics. The penthouses have spectacular living and dining spaces, with private rooftop solariums with adjoining terraces and hot tubs. The spectacular swimming pool is surrounded by terraces and features South Florida's ever changing sky. AQUA's health club and the executive center are on the ground floor.

Spear
The Spear is designed as two linked buildings to offer corner exposures, cross ventilation and exciting views in nearly every apartment. Serving as the Spear's visual focus, a sculptural covered driveway frames the spectacular entrance and extends along the axis of the lobby, linking its front to a veranda facing the water. The light-filled lobby features contemporary furniture and art. On the ground floor, two-level loft residences have private patios. Penthouses have large spaces with high ceilings and wrap-around balconies. The Spear faces the landscaped neighborhood square on one side, and the island waterside promenade on the other.

Gorlin
Like a compass, the Gorlin building is divided into four quadrants that point to the cardinal directions. Crowned by a curving rooftop, the building captures the essence of the subtropical environment of Miami Beach. The Gorlin's residences are accessed through a stylish lobby with contemporary furniture and art. With three corner units on each floor, residents will experience the intimacy and privacy of a luxury mid-rise building with ten-foot ceilings, floor through apartments, dramatic windows and terraces. Rooms have excellent views and are protected by an extended sunscreen shading the interiors. On the highest floors, magnificent penthouses have solarium rooms facing large terraces with hot tubs.

Island Homes

DPZ Corner Home
Drawn from traditional models of European and American urbanism, this island home recalls the early tropical Moderne style of Miami Beach. Classically proportioned elements line up with symmetry and minimum ornament. Like its modern predecessors, this house has an open plan with rooms that flow into one another. Spaces are subdivided to provide elegant dwelling with strict geometry. A tower at the top level leads to a roof terrace offering vistas of the island and beyond.

Brown Demandt Corner Home
This elegant and restrained composition imparts a modulated rhythm to the facade. The higher floors are the province of the more gestural elements: a series of sheltering terraces to celebrate both night and day. The straightforward layout below emphasizes livability and functionality. The home becomes a village within the village.

Magnusson Corner Home
This house responds naturally to Miami's balmy climate. Graciously proportioned spaces connect living and dining and an ample covered terrace creates a secluded outdoor space that welcomes cross breezes throughout the building. This house's architectural composition is a tribute to Le Corbusier, the master who redefined the idea of a home.

Brown Demandt Corner Home
This elegant and restrained composition imparts a modulated rhythm to the facade. The higher floors are the province of the more gestural elements: a series of sheltering terraces to celebrate both night and day. The straightforward layout below emphasizes livability and functionality. The home becomes a village within the village.

Albaisa Musumano Home
The Aqua Tropic House is organized around a series of open-air environments that function as living spaces. The atrium, the physical and symbolic center of the home, becomes an exterior living room on the main level. From there, one ascends through a sequence of terraces and balconies of varied scales, degree of privacy and character.

Martinson Home
Crisp detailing combined with louvered windows and concrete eyebrows pay homage to the early streamlined buildings of Miami Beach. The primary features of the house are the two-story living room volume and the expansive covered terrace with views to the water. A seamless connection to the outdoors is maximized with terraces on every level.

Gorlin Home
The design of this house pushes the limits of South Florida's local architectural language by employing a judicious interpretation of a modernist esthetic. In response to the site, this home is graced with expansive views and interiors that create a multi-layered experience of open and closed spaces.

Shulman Home
This house derives its spatial and stylistic language from Miami's three traditions: Vernacular, Mediterranean and Modern. It is a seamless merging of diverse yet compatible elements--patios, roof terraces, gabled roofs, canvas canopies and trellises to create a fresh interpretation of regional design.

Martinson Corner Home
Crisp detailing combined with louvered windows and concrete eyebrows pay homage to the early streamlined buildings of Miami Beach. The primary features of the house are the two-story living room volume and the expansive covered terrace with views to the water. A seamless connection to the outdoors is maximized with terraces on every level.

Hariri Corner Home
The movement of boats and vessels plying the waters around Allison Island was the inspiration for the Aqua-House. The main body of the house takes the form of a sculpture elegantly carved from of a solid block and a curved metal roof arching in opposing directions allows the roofline to reflect sunlight, creating a dynamic gesture.

DPZ Corner Home
Drawn from traditional models of European and American urbanism, this island home recalls the early tropical Moderne style of Miami Beach. Classically proportioned elements line up with symmetry and minimum ornament. Like its modern predecessors, this house has an open plan with rooms that flow into one another. Spaces are subdivided to provide elegant dwelling with strict geometry. A tower at the top level leads to a roof terrace offering vistas of the island and beyond.

Chatham Home
This island home has been designed as a series of articulated volumes that contrast smooth stucco finishes with crisp trims and louvered shutters with large areas of glass. Punctuating the pleasing rhythm of sunlight and shadow, windows bring in light and frame sumptuous views. The roof terraces, with their piped railings, evoke historic transatlantic ships and the architecture of the early Modernist movement.

DPZ Corner Home
Drawn from traditional models of European and American urbanism, this island home recalls the early tropical Moderne style of Miami Beach. Classically proportioned elements line up with symmetry and minimum ornament. Like its modern predecessors, this house has an open plan with rooms that flow into one another. Spaces are subdivided to provide elegant dwelling with strict geometry. A tower at the top level leads to a roof terrace offering vistas of the island and beyond.

Brown Demandt Corner Home
This elegant and restrained composition imparts a modulated rhythm to the facade. The higher floors are the province of the more gestural elements: a series of sheltering terraces to celebrate both night and day. The straightforward layout below emphasizes livability and functionality. The home becomes a village within the village.

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