The Surf Club Condo Hotel Surfside | Richard Meier Design | Approved

sandman · Jun 11, 2012

Project Data:

Groundbreaking date: 2013
Location: 9011 Collins Avenue, Surfside
Developer: Fort Capital
Architect: Kobi Karp
Design Consultant: Richard Meier
Cost:
Units: 285 Condo / Hotel
Contractor: Coastal Construction

Note: Kobi Karp remains the primary architect on the project, and all renderings have been released from his office. Richard Meier is simply consulting on design.

Update in February 2013: Architect Richard Meier has been hired to design the new Surf Club towers. The images below were produced prior to Meier' involvement in the project.

The Surf Club is a proposed condo-hotel at the site of the historic Surf Club located at 9011 Collins Avenue in Surfside.

The site plan includes:

A 285 unit condo hotel including a gourmet specialty food product store, a five-star hotel and spa, roof top decks, pools, 661 parking spaces.

There will be three 12-story buildings on the east side of Collins Avenue, and two four-story buildings on the west side of Collins Avenue.

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Earlier:

Members of the Surf Club have accepted an offer to sell for $116 million. There were multiple offers on the club, all of which were unsolicited.

The buyer is Turkish multinational conglomerate Koc group, which is based in Istanbul. Koc had $38 billion in annual revenues last year.

The club is 6 acres, but designated as historic which will hinder development. Additionally, Surfside has a strict 12-story height limit.

The Surf Club was built in 1930 and designed by architect Russell Pancoast.

http://www.dailybusinessreview.com/...s_for_stake_in_Surfsides_Surf_Club&slreturn=1

sandman · Jun 11, 2012

From the club website: http://miamibeachsurfclub.com

Since 1930, the Private Surf Club has been Miami's premier address for the finest in dining and dancing in an atmosphere of elegant sophistication.

The club's glittering early parties hosted world famous personalities such as the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., and General Douglas MacArthur. The parties played host to Metropolitan Opera soprano Lily Pons, New York chanteuse Hildegarde, and Elizabeth Taylor. Other early guests include Winston Churchill, who painted seascapes from his Surf Club cabana, and 1950s General Motors' Chairman Charles Wilson. Wilson displayed the new car models each fall for the press and dealers in the Club's grand ballrooms.

In recent years, entertainer Tony Bennett sang for a club party, and the club has played host to Senator and Mrs. Robert Dole, former Vice President Dan Quayle, television journalist David Brinkley, and world famous singer Julio Iglesias.

langbro · Jun 12, 2012

Seems like a very high price.

sandman · Sep 21, 2012

This project is set to appear before the Surfside Planning & Zoning board on September 27, 2012.

Submitted by SC Property Acquisition.

Architect = Kobi Karp.

sandman · Sep 24, 2012

Updated:

The Surf Club is a proposed condo-hotel at the site of the historic Surf Club in Surfside.

The site plan includes:

A 285 unit condominium hotel including a gourmet specialty food product store, a five-star hotel and spa, roof top decks, pools, 661 parking spaces.

There will be three 12-story buildings on the east side of Collins Avenue, and two four-story buildings on the west side of Collins Avenue.

The full report:

langbro · Sep 30, 2012

uploaded Kobi Karp presentation of plans for the Surf Club last week.

yes, its pretty shocking.... don't ask if it was approved

mechanesthesia · Oct 2, 2012

I love this. The beautiful contrast between historic and ultra-contemporary architecture.
This is what EnV could have been. I didn't realize it would look so good.

mechanesthesia · Oct 2, 2012

http://goo.gl/maps/RiAzx I've lived in Miami all my life and would drive through Collins constantly, and I never knew that was there! Who thought of building that wall and that ugly blocky concrete building around it? What's up with those ugly concrete box buildings from the 50's. I hope they never become historically significant!

sandman · Oct 3, 2012

The Surfside planning and zoning board did approve it with some changes, but it still needs to appear before the Surfside commission for a second reading.

yellows2k · Oct 14, 2012

Renovation of Surf Club, where Winston Churchill painted, goes to Surfside Commission Monday

The Surf Club, an old-line private club with a historic 1929 building, is poised for a transformation that would restore its faded luster and surround it with three glass hotel and condo towers, if the Surfside Commission approves a Turkish developer

BY ANDRES VIGLUCCI
AVIGLUCCI@MIAMIHERALD.COM

The venerable Surf Club, among the last of the grand jazz-age Miami-area private clubs, is on the verge of a transformation that would restore the faded luster of its historic Mediterranean Revival building and crown it with a trio of crystalline hotel and condo towers.

The fast-moving plan, which goes to a vote at the Surfside Commission on Monday, comes months after the club — afflicted by shrinking membership and growing maintenance costs — agreed to a $116 million buyout by the Koc Group, a Turkish conglomerate.

In public hearings and forums leading up to Monday’s vote, Koc and its local partners pledged to open the club and its facilities to the public for the first time. Their project also promises a fiscal windfall to Surfside, a once-sleepy beach town north of Miami Beach that is undergoing a wave of upscale beachfront development.

The ambitious plan has been embraced by preservationists, town leaders and the Surf Club’s 122 remaining owner-members in part because it would embark on a radical renovation of the landmark 1929 building. The developers propose to strip away substantial and unsympathetic later additions, including an entire service wing and a long wall along Collins Avenue that hides the club from view, and restore or recreate original murals, light fixtures and doors.

By the end, they say, the building will appear much as pioneering Miami architect Russell Pancoast designed it, both inside and out. Architect Kobi Karp, whose firm is handling both the restoration and the design of the new buildings, said the process was aided by the availability of Pancoast’s original plans, which elucidate details as minute as moldings and doorknobs.

At the same time, the developer proposes to add significantly less building density to the 6-acre club property, which spans both sides of Collins, than allowed by Surfside’s code, so that neither the historic building nor its low-scale Surfside neighbors will be overwhelmed by the new structures, supporters say.

The scale of the additions has nonetheless taken some long-time residents aback, and residents of an eight-story condo directly to the south, the Surf House, are mounting a last-minute campaign objecting to a service and garage entrance at 90th Street that would face their building’s front entrance. But there has been little public opposition to the project.

“This deal was designed backward — we really considered the relationship to the community and the members first,’’ said Robert Zarco, an equity Surf Club member who, as its general counsel, negotiated what he described as a complex transaction with the developers. “This group was the most amenable to preserving the history and heritage of the club.’’

That history has been long and colorful. The club, which opened in 1930, predates the founding of Surfside and was designed by Pancoast in the highly ornate, and authentically detailed and proportioned, high-Mediterranean style then in vogue, with high beamed and vaulted ceilings, majestic colonnades and massive fireplaces.

Though it lacked a golf course, it boasted a broad stretch of virgin beach and quickly established itself as an exclusive center of social activity, beach lounging, and dining and dancing for local grandees and equally grand winter visitors, including the Duke and Duchess of Windsor and, later, stars like Elizabeth Taylor. But its most famous guest, in 1946, indisputably was Winston Churchill, who spent his time at the club painting seascapes.

The club was linked by 91st Street directly to exclusive Indian Creek island and its golf-course estates, where many of its members lived. Over time, its membership embraced the eminently respectable and the somewhat racy. Still today its roster of owner-members includes some big names, including legendary retired Miami Dolphins coach Don Shula, an Indian Creek resident; investor and former corporate raider Carl Icahn; and Charlie Cavalaris, longtime owner of the famed S&S Diner near downtown Miami, which the city designated a historic landmark after he sold it.

As part of the deal with Koc, Zarco said, the proprietor-members will automatically receive memberships for life in the new Surf Club, though most of the original building and its amenities will be available for use to walk-in visitors.

Koc and its local partners, Ford Capital Management, promise direct public beach access through the club’s vaulted, cathedral-like central hallway, known as Peacock Alley, which stretches from the Collins Avenue entrance to the waterfront.

They also pledge to enhance public beach access at the dead-ends of 90th and 91st streets, which form the club property’s south and north boundaries and are heavily used by town residents to walk to the shore.

The historic building, legally protected as a designated historic structure by Miami-Dade County, would function as the free-standing hub of a new 285-unit luxury condo-hotel. The new units, obeying the town’s strict height limits, would be spread mostly throughout three 12-story, glass-sheathed towers on the beach side.

Across Collins, on the current site of the club’s parking lot and tennis courts, would rise two four-story buildings, one of them a parking garage designed to look on the outside like an apartment house. The other building would have two floors of residential units over parking.

Although the new buildings are out of scale with the one- and two-story historic club, county preservation officer Kathleen Kaufman wrote in a report, the project represents a reasonable balance. The proposed renovations to the historic building, she wrote, are “meticulous’’ and “to the highest standards of preservation.’’

At the historic building, the developers plan to restore a wide keystone staircase leading down to the beach from a broad terrace now taken up by a latter-day bar and dining room, which will be removed.

The developers will also rebuild the club’s famed horseshoe-shaped row of wooden cabanas, a key condition of the county preservation board’s unanimous approval of the project. Churchill is believed to have made an oil painting of the beach entitled The Surf Club, Miami, from the deck of one of the cabanas.

One cabana will be designated as the Winston Churchill cabana and will be decorated with Surf Club artifacts and memorabilia.

The cabanas, however, will be moved closer to the shoreline to make room for the project’s southernmost tower. That tower will be curved both to echo the shape of the row of cabanas and, because it recedes from the beach at its southern end, to preserve at least a portion of the ocean vista for the Surf House to its south. The 1966 building is oriented west-east and most of its windows, as well as its main entrance, face directly north.

At a four-hour September hearing before the town’s planning board, which unanimously endorsed the project, some residents expressed reservations about the new buildings’ scale and effects on its lower-height neighbors, including the potential for blocked water views and shadows on the beach.

Surf House resident Tom Brothers praised the planned historic renovation but called the proposed new buildings “gargantuan,’’ adding: “It will completely alter and change not only the skyline of Surfside but the spirit and essence of this community.’’

But town manager Roger Carlton said the plan meets existing zoning, and noted that he and his staff helped shape the project to harmonize with its surroundings as much as possible in hours of in-house negotiations. The developers are seeking no variances, he noted, but the town and the county preservation board attached 67 conditions to the plan.

The development will add $2.7 million annually in tax revenue to the town’s bottom line, Carlson said, and the developers have also promised $1.5 million in contributions to town projects and improvements.

http://www.miamiherald.com/2012/10/13/3049009/renovation-of-surf-club-where.html

langbro · Oct 16, 2012

The project was unanimously approved last night.

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