Dolphin Mall

Beame Architectural Partnership, Hoar Construction
Miami, Florida

The Dolphin Mall opened with much fanfare. With 1.4 million sf on 120 acres, including lakes, Dolphin Mall is Miami-Dade's largest value-shopping/entertainment center. Each entrance and major thoroughfare has unique features that use exposed structural components to provide form, function and style. The most striking element is the centerpiece of the mall, a 92 foot-wide by 420 foot-long vaulted main entrance at the center of the 2,100-foot long building. This 80-foot high space frame is supported with lacy steel framework on top of concrete columns and yields a roof that seems to float above the building.

AWARDS
Steel Joist Institute,
Non-Industrial First Place, 2003

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