Caribbean Marketplace

2008 | Best Renovation/Preservation

When New York Times reporter Bruce Weber came to Miami in 1999 to do a story about Little Haiti's art community, he described the nascent effort to renovate the Caribbean Marketplace, not only to save the building itself -- only nine years old then, it was well on its way into, as Weber said, "decrepitude" -- but also to establish a cultural center for the neighborhood. Another nine years have passed and that dream is almost realized. The award-winning design by Haitian-born... More »