Miami's Depression-defying skyscraper now hosts its grandest parties. The Alfred I. duPont Building at 169 East Flagler Street, completed in 1939 for 2.5 million dollars, was the first skyscraper raised in Miami after the 1926 bust and the Dade County Courthouse of 1928 - a 17-story Modern tower with Art Deco embellishments by Jacksonville architects Marsh and Saxelbye, built as headquarters for the Florida National Bank that financier Alfred I. duPont had organised in 1931, and dedicated to his.....

A green expanse on the edge of downtown Miami, Bayfront Park stretches along the shore of Biscayne Bay, offering open lawns, public art and sweeping water views in the middle of the city. A popular gathering place for concerts, celebrations and quiet waterfront strolls, the park provides a welcome breathing space between the skyscrapers of the business district and the glittering bay beyond. The park occupies land reclaimed from the bay in the early twentieth century and was substantially redes.....

A lively waterfront shopping and entertainment complex on Biscayne Bay, Bayside Marketplace is one of downtown Miami's busiest attractions, combining open-air shops, restaurants and live music with views over the marina and the bay. Opened in 1987, the festival marketplace draws locals and the many cruise passengers and tourists passing through the city to its breezy, palm-lined promenades along the water. The marketplace was developed as part of a wider effort to revitalise the downtown waterf.....

Miami's old port became its festival lawn, museum campus and occasional racetrack. Bicentennial Park at 1075 Biscayne Boulevard - renamed Maurice A. Ferre Park in 2019 for the six-term mayor - opened in 1976 on 30 bayfront acres that had served as the Port of Miami from the early 1900s until the docks moved to Dodge Island in the mid-1960s. Named for the national bicentennial, the park spent its early decades as downtown's troubled second green space before its event calendar and a museum-distri.....

Miami's grandest arts complex keeps its most flexible stage hidden inside the opera house. The Carnival Studio Theater is the black-box venue of the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts at 1300 Biscayne Boulevard, the 570,000-square-foot Cesar Pelli-designed complex - conceived as Miami-Dade County's Lincoln Center - that opened in 2006 with the Ziff Ballet Opera House and Knight Concert Hall as its twin flagships. The Studio lives within the Ziff building, entered from Biscayne Bouleva.....

Before it was Churchill's Pub, Miami's punk headquarters traded under the name Churchill's Hideaway - and many of the city's musicians never stopped calling it that. The bar at 5501 NE Second Avenue in Little Haiti is the venue British expat Dave Daniels built after opening his first tiny pub on NW 54th Street on New Year's Day 1979; by late 1980 he had moved the operation to the Second Avenue building, a former old-timers' day bar dating to the 1940s, renamed it for Sir Winston Churchill, and h.....

The CBGB of the South is a British pub in Little Haiti with cheap beer, infamous bathrooms and 45 years of glorious noise. Churchill's Pub at 5501 NE Second Avenue in Miami traces to New Year's Day 1979, when Dave Daniels - a promoter from Leek, England who had booked Chuck Berry, Eric Clapton and Steppenwolf at British pop festivals before working Miami cruise ships - opened his first small pub near Overtown. By late 1980 he had moved into the Second Avenue building, a working-class day bar dat.....

The only club in America where the party legally never has to stop was built on two blocks of downtown Miami nobody else wanted. Club Space at 34 Northeast 11th Street opened in March 2000, the vision of Miami native Louis Puig, who spent three months lobbying city commissioners to designate a two-by-two block slice of the derelict Park West district as a 24-hour entertainment zone with round-the-clock liquor licences. New York legend Danny Tenaglia christened the decks at the original 142 NE 11.....

Miami's best-kept nightlife secret hides inside its most famous club. Floyd, at 34 Northeast 11th Street in downtown Miami, occupies an intimate room within the Club Space building - a 21st-century speakeasy bathed in red light, with the DJ booth planted in the middle of the floor and no stage at all: acts perform at eye level, surrounded by the crowd. The room emerged in the mid-2010s as the Space and Link Miami Rebels team - the operators who turned the 24-hour district around Northeast 11th .....

Five hundred solar panels power the stage where Ultra Music Festival's main stage first thundered in 2001. The FPL Solar Amphitheater at Bayfront Park, 301 North Biscayne Boulevard, is downtown Miami's big outdoor concert bowl - a 10,000-capacity venue of 2,672 fixed bench seats and a sweeping lawn, set inside the 32-acre waterfront park on Biscayne Bay. Bayfront Park itself is Miami history: designed by Warren Henry Manning and opened in 1925, then radically remade from 1980 by sculptor-landsc.....