Category:Architecture
Next door to Ocean’s Ten and the Edison is the Breakwater Hotel. It’s hard to miss given the prominence of the name on the building! Blues, yellows and white are a repeating color theme on Ocean Drive. There are exceptions, of course. I was really drawn to that iconic sign.
I was drawn to this scene by the color matching of the restaurant’s orange awnings and yellow walls with the pain scheme of the Chevy Bel Air parked outside. I’m guessing the owner/operators of the two are the same which leads me to my next question – was the restaurant decorated to match the Chevy or was the Chevy re-painted to match the restaurant?
This property is located at the intersection of Ocean Drive and 11th Street. I was initially drawn to the portholes of the building on the left. Then I noticed the common theme of the pastel blue paint framing the windows of the building on the right and tying the two buildings together despite their architectural differences. Curiously the windows of the middle floor don’t seem to have any circular theme.
While South Beach in general and the Ocean Drive area in particular is known for its art deco architecture, The Edgewater stands out because of its more Spanish Colonial styling on its upper floors, particularly the red Spanish tile roof detail.
I was inspired to take this series by a picture hanging in our hotel room. I’ll post the then-and-now of that image later since it was towards the southern end of Ocean Drive and the Betsy Ross is at the north end.
For R&R from Brunei I’d often go to Thailand. The image below is the first of my Thailand collection, and it’s of a department store, somewhere in Bangkok taken July 16, 1989. It was taken in the morning, not that I can remember the night before – after all, it was Bangkok.