Whole Foods is coming back for approval in Miami Beach with a new design. After Miami Beach residents came out in opposition to the store at 1901 Alton Road earlier this year, developer Crescent Heights went back to the drawing board, bringing in architect Chad Oppenheim to redesign it. The difference between the two designs is striking. While Oppenheim’s new plan is similar in size to an earlier proposal rejected by the city, the newer, more elegant design seems likelier to be accepted by […]
We are very excited to announce that Oppenheim Architecture + Design has been chosen as winner of the 2015 Architizer A+Awards for Residential Interiors, Jury Winner! Architizer recognizes architecture in several categories as Typologies and Plus Categories, which includes Products. They have chosen 300 highly esteemed industry leaders — including Iwan Baan, Charles Adler, Sou Fujimoto, Natasha Jen, Tom Kundig, and Beatrice Galilee — whom award the Jury Winners, while an online public vote determined the Popular Choice winners. With […]
Chad Oppenheim has designed breathtaking buildings around the world. From his Miami office, he has put his signature touch on projects such as CornicheTower in Dubai; 1 Hotel in Washington, D.C.; 88 Gardens in Xiamen, China: the Enea headquarters in Rapperwill-jona, Switzerland; the Hard Rock Hotel in Las Vegas; the Hyatt Regency Chicago; Palace Qatar in Doha; Wharf Road in Australia; and the Wadi Rum Desert Resort in Jordan. His Miami designs include Ten Museum Park and 3 Midtown. Article […]
For Chad Oppenheim, conquering Miami was just the beginning. Armed with curiosity and conviction, the gifted architect is charting new territory with projects that explore a poetic sense of place. Miami has become the kind of architectural playground other cities dream of being. It’s key characteristics – year round sunny skies, ultra wealthy clientele, and an insatiable hunger for luxury – perfectly position it to attract everyone and anyone in the field, from Jeanne Gang to Herzog & de Meuron. […]
An architect with offices in Miami and Basel, Switzerland, would seem to have two very different points of reference — sunny shores one week, mountain views the next. Yet Chad Oppenheim, designer of muscular-but-playful modernist buildings all over the world, is equally comfortable in both realms (he has a house in Aspen, too) and has carved out something of a specialty when it comes to highlighting views and experiences of the outdoors in its many disparate forms. “We’ve got a tremendous desire to […]
The skies may be cloudy, but the vibe couldn’t be sunnier at Villa Allegra, the modernist Miami home of architect Chad Oppenheim and his young family. Ilona, Oppenheim’s Swiss-born wife, prepares homemade granola in the flower-filled kitchen while 6-year-old son Hendrix and 3-year-old daughter Liloo shriek with delight in the backyard. Despite looming rain, the kids teeter atop surfboards in the 60-foot swimming pool as towering coconut palms sway in a tropical breeze. “It’s hard to believe that you can […]
The sleek, austere living/dining room of this Miami home belies the playful pandemonium that goes on here. On the sofa: jumping and dancing. Bicycles, scooters and games of tag pass through here. And when a rainy day befell a toddler’s birthday party last year, the two ponies clomped inside for rides. Chad Oppenheim, the home’s owner and architect, explains that while most of the furnishings are limited-edition, museum-quality pieces, the space, which he calls “the everything room,” revolves around family—himself, […]