Museum Tower, Office skyscraper in Downtown Miami, Florida.
Museum Tower is a 29-story office building in the Government Center district of Downtown Miami, Florida, standing 377 feet (115 m) tall. Its main body is clad in pale grey stone, with a recessed central section of blue reflective glass flanked by two solid stone towers that step inward near the top. A dark lattice of diagonal steel crosses the glass below the upper floors.
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.
Museum Tower takes its name from HistoryMiami, the museum directly across the street in the Miami Cultural Plaza; the former Miami Art Museum stood there too. The tower appears in a scene at 00:45:42 of the 1986 film Aladdin, starring Bud Spencer, shot while the building was still under construction.
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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