Atlantis Condominium, Residential skyscraper at Brickell Avenue, Miami, US
The Atlantis Condominium is a 20-story residential building on Brickell Avenue with a glass exterior wall system. A prominent void cuts through its center, creating an open courtyard that penetrates the entire structure.
Built between 1980 and 1982, the tower was designed by architect Hervin Romney with the firm Arquitectonica, and its 96 units were sold through Alicia Cervera of Cervera Real Estate. On April 18, 2012, the Florida Chapter of the AIA listed it among Florida Architecture: 100 Years. 100 Places.
The building's fame came from the opening credits of Miami Vice, where its cut-out palm court appeared, and from exterior shots in Scarface as the home of Frank Lopez. It also appeared in the Telemundo soap opera Marielena and inspired a similar building in Grand Theft Auto: Vice City.
The building houses a total of 96 residential units distributed across its floors and served by two elevator cores. Visitors should note that this is private residential property with limited public access to interior spaces.
The five-story palm court is a void cut out of the building itself, not a roof terrace: it holds a red spiral staircase, a hot tub and a palm tree. The building appears as a buildable landmark in the city-building game Sim City 3000, and a building with a square cut in it stands in the fictional Vice City of Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, a clear reference to the Atlantis.
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