Pérez Art Museum Miami
Perforated canopy hung with vertical garden columns over open-air waterfront terraces.
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This guide to Pérez Art Museum Miami opens with French botanist Patrick Blanc, the inventor of the vertical garden, looking up at the perforated canopy he designed for the museum's December 2013 opening and disliking what he saw in his own creation. It traces the roughly eighty plant species he hung in columns over the entrance, watered by collected rainwater to blur the line between the museum and the bayfront park beside it, and the punishment Miami heat, salt air, and storms inflict on a hanging garden. Look up at the columns ringing the canopy as you walk beneath it.
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