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Daniel Toole Architecture in collaboration with SB Architects, has transformed a nondescript alley in Miami, Florida, with a series of concrete arches.

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This alley was originally surrounded by trash rooms, dumpsters, mechanical rooms, transformers, and haphazard parking.

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The design concept grew out of a ruin-like composition of various-sized concrete parabolic arches inserted into the alley, like a miniature viaduct that becomes a new urban structure.

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Cast in rough-sawn board forms, the project seeks to draw from and preserve the rough and informal atmosphere of the original alleyway.

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Lighting at the base of each arch highlights the design and entices people further into the alley and towards the retail stores and courtyard.

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The parabolic arch geometry was applied in various ways to new storefronts along the alley and scaled down to transform the trash and mechanical rooms of the existing Moore building into small retail and dining ،es to be leased by local businesses.

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P،tography by Heywood Chan | Project Team – Design Architect: Daniel Toole Architecture | Architect of Record: SB Architects | Client: DACRA/L Catterton