The Fairchild Coconut Grove is a Lovely Little Tropical Modernist Building Very, Very Close to a Good Hospital
Are you a lover of tropical modernist architecture and indoor-outdoor living, but your health might be on the brink? Looking for a lovely little place to enjoy life in ease after your third heart attack? The Fairchild Coconut Grove is being built on a bay front site in North Grove literally next to Mercy Hospital, at 3581 E. Glencoe Street.
Being developed by Grove Bay Properties, the building is designed by architect Max Strang, with 26 units ranging from 1700 square feet two-bedroomers, to 4200 square feet four bedroomers. Amenities include private boat slips, a full time butler, a rooftop pool deck and gardens, bicycles provided to residents, gym, with steam, sauna, and hammam. Units have 11-foot high ceilings except for the penthouses, which are 13-feet, while ‘select’ units have private outdoor showers and servants quarters. Sales have not officially begun yet, although they’re probably quietly selling to early buyers anyways, as one does. Units begin at $1.4 million.
Fabulous Med Revival “La Solana” in Coconut Grove Lists for $3.2 Million
A fabulously classic Mediterranean Revival mansion in Coconut Grove called “La Solana” has just listed for $3.299 million. The broker’s remarks say it like it is: “one of the last original 1920’s Grove mansions to maintain its timeless elegance and to have escaped the curse of bad updating.” Yep, that happens all the time. It even has a fabulous old giant porcelain sink in the kitchen. When was the last time you saw a working one of those? Dripping in original details by its architects, the seminal South Florida firm of Kiehnel & Elliott, like that sink and the Moroccan front door surround (seriously, check that out!) La Solana looks to have been gorgeously restored to its old beauty.
Grove at Grand Bay is Done, Receives Temporary Certificate of Occupancy
Grove at Grand Bay seen from Park Grove. By Sean McCaughan.
The two twisting towers known as Grove at Grand Bay, which in their short lives have already become iconic Coconut Grove landmarks, have received their temporary certificate of occupancy, with closings beginning this week. They were originally going to be Danish architect Bjarke Ingels’ first completed project in the Americas, but due to construction delays were beaten out by Via 57 West in New York. The buildings have been entirely sold out for a while, except for the last remaining penthouse, a $28 million unit which developer David Martin had originally intended to keep for himself. According to Martin, who spoke to Real Deal, interior build-outs should be completed within three months, with move-ins expected in the next four to six.
Subtropical Modernist Coconut Grove House by Shulman + Associates Hits the Market for $6.95M
A modernist Coconut Grove house which featured in Dwell Magazine, and which I featured on Curbed Miami, soon after completion has hit the market with a price tag of $6.95 million. The house, thick in the hammock of the Grove’s Camp Biscayne, was designed by local architect Allan Shulman of Shulman + Associates, and designed to embrace the outdoors with a reserved detachment from it. “It didn’t seem like the kind of landscape you wanted to go trudging through with your boots, but one that you wanted to observe with detachment,” Shulman told Dwell. “We were trying to emphasize how precious the landscape is.” by floating boardwalks around the very wet, sunken site, and cantilevering the living room over it. Then on the other side of the home is a much more traditional backyard, with pool and grill.
Ideal Coconut Grove Classic, With Coral Rock Wall, is Looking for $2.35 Million
The sale listing for this classic old Coconut Grove casbah describes it as ‘Coconut Grove in all its glory,’ which is just about right. Listed for $2.35 million, the historic Mediterranean Revival castillo comes with a half acre of jungly grove land, 3,750 square feet of living space, and really tastefully updated interiors throughout. Do checkout the tub in the master bath.
