Facade of Garage in Miami’s Design District

The parking garage facade you see in the following photos has to be the most unusual I have ever seen. The garage is located across the street from Institute of Contemporary Art in what is known as the Design District of Miami Beach. Some of the artwork on display in the ICA is impressive, but overall I found myself less enthralled with what I saw compared to what we experienced at the Bass Museum and Morikami Museum.

We also learned, by pure luck, of a private museum just down the street (to the right as you leave the ICA) from the ICA. Built and owned by the de la Cruz couple it houses a fraction of their collection of art. They made their fortune (and I suppose still are) as distributors and bottlers of Coke products throughout the Caribbean. It did not do much for me but the building and collection are a remarkable testament to what a couple can do..