Miami views from the 1111 Lincoln Road parking garage.

Unless we're talking about the impressing engineering that keeps skimpy bikini tops on man-made wonders, architecture is not a word we usually think of when we think is on the way—joining at least two other designer parking structures on the beach—we're going to have to start looking up when we stroll around South Beach.

Hadid's firm has been given $12.5 million to play with in creating the new municipal parking garage in the Collins Park neighborhood—that's near the Bass Museum, The Setai and the W South Beach. According to the Miami Herald, she will be spending the cash on her winning design in the shape of an '8'. (Significance of the number? Beats us.)

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Our own Brendan Spiegel is down in Panama this week and will be reporting back on all that he's seen and done. Whether or not he's wearing a Panama Hat, we can't say. But if you have any questions or suggestions for him, let us know.

Flip open any guidebook to Panama and you'll read that the country's biggest project since the canal is getting set to open "next year." The attraction in question is the Bridge of Life Museum, a celebration of natural biodiversity housed in a futuristic building designed by starchitect Frank Gehry. (You can check out the crazy design online).

The museum's backers hope the Bridge of Life will do for Panama City what Gehry's Guggenheim did for Bilbao, namely, give it a permanent spot on the global cultural map. And Panama seems to have all the tools in place. ]]> BS 2009-03-31T09:26:30-05:00 http://www.jaunted.com/story/2008/10/6/82838/8163

A Canadian choreographer and crafty ambassador for modern dance, Noémie Lafrance, has found a ready-made world stage for her shows by exhibiting them on architect Frank Gehry's buildings.

Dancers, equipped with bungy chords, harnesses, and ropes, leap and bounced all over a Gehry structure at Bard College in New York two weeks ago. With the architect’s blessing, Lafrance has eight more performances planned.

Next up? The Guggenheim museum in Northern Spain and the Walt Disney concert hall in Los Angeles. (No dates have been announced.) The whole thing projects an air of pretentiousness, but watching spidermen and women legally climb around on some of the world's most revered modern buildings holds a decent amount of appeal.

Related Stories:
· Dancers on a Hot Gehry Roof [IHT]
· Alain Robert's Climbing Stunts Map [Jaunted]

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