Museum Tower, Office skyscraper in Downtown Miami, Florida.
Museum Tower is a 29-story office building located in the Government Center district of Downtown Miami, Florida. Its facade is clad in limestone rather than glass, which sets it apart from most of the towers nearby.
The building broke ground in 1983 under the leadership of Southeast Banking Corp and opened in 1987, during a period of rapid growth in Downtown Miami. It was one of several large office projects that reshaped the Government Center area through that decade.
The tower sits at the edge of Miami Cultural Plaza, a corner of Downtown where offices and museums share the same block. Walking past it, you naturally pass by HistoryMiami and the building that once housed the Miami Art Museum.
The tower is a working office building, so access to the interior is limited to tenants and people with business there. The surrounding area around Government Center is easy to explore on foot, and the nearby cultural venues are open to the public.
The facade combines two types of limestone: one from France and one from Texas, which was an unusual choice for a Miami office tower in the 1980s. The architects at Spillis Candela and Partners chose these materials instead of following the glass curtain wall trend common at the time.
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