Miami Condo Investments keeps beating me to the Icon Bay goodies
http://www.miamicondoinvestments.com/miami-real-estate/new-rendering-of-icon-bay

This image must be in reverse. The amenity deck is situated on the other side of the inlet

The image showing the fountain was already posted on here a week ago, it is in the brochure.

No, I think it is correct.

Icon Bay has released more details, more renderings, including what the back of the building will look like


Scroll through the pages to see all of the new info:

The western facade of the building and the parking garage look absolutely terrible.

It is the same garbage that arquitectonica was churning out during the last boom... hard to believe that no lesson has been learned by all of those involved.

I don't think that portion of the rendering is actually complete. The ground floor of the garage would have to be lined with something else. Right now they just show some trees.

The design of western facade of the building is horrible, and at 40 stories it will be visible for miles around.

Same crap that arquitectonica pulled at Marina Blue and Marquis.

The western facade is the same as the eastern facade except for the addition of the elevator shaft so you're not making much sense there.

Marquis is a very successful building. Calling it crap is just pure hyperbole. A building selling at $400+ SF downtown obviously isn't crap. I'm not a fan of the completely blank wall along the back side on 2nd avenue. Yeah, nothing is there now but it's not like they are going to rebuild it when the area starts growing. This clearly isn't allowed under Miami 21 and should be addressed in this building.

As far as it being seen for miles around, the area is zoned for 36 stories. So you can take comfort that when the area is built out the only people seeing it will be the people driving down to the end of the street.

The western facade of Icon Bay appears to be mostly stucco, while the eastern facade is mostly glass. Same crap arquitectonica did at blue, marina blue, marquis.

This building might not even be miami-21 compatible, they are probably just be reusing the old Onyx MUSP.

And that makes it crap??? Again hyperbole. It looks like they have private elevator access to each unit. It's a single loaded corridor so on one side they can have all windows and on the other side you cant. They still put balconies on the west side in the same zig zag pattern. I'm sure the architect would rather all of the elevators to be glass and clad the entire western facade in the coolest material available. But in the real world architects don't get to make those decisions. The people who will be buying this unit are going to have an entry way from a private elevator on the west and are going to have floor to ceiling windows on the east to take advantage of the views.

This has nothing to do with design and everything to do with functionality and market demand. No developer is going to add millions of dollars to project that no one is going to pay for just to make some random guy on the internet happy.

As for them using the MUSP you can't make changes this substantial and still use the old MUSP. In most cases you have the scenario like at 1101 where the shell of the building stays the same and they just make arrangements to the interior of the building. Were looking at purchasing a building that has a MUSP and we ran into a scenario where we could buy land next door to make the building more efficient. The problem was that if we made the changes we lost the MUSP. But Miami 21 didn't allow the same buildable area. So it was build a larger inefficient building or a smaller efficient one.