Courthouse Center, Government office tower in Downtown Miami, United States
The Courthouse Center is a 30-floor government office tower, 405 ft (123 m) tall, completed in 1986 in the Government Center district on Northwest 1st Avenue, at the western edge of Downtown Miami. All of its floors are office space, and its architecture is distinctly similar to that of the Southeast Financial Center.
The building opened in 1986 during Miami's rapid economic expansion in the 1980s. Its construction marked the city's vertical growth as modern infrastructure demands shaped the downtown landscape.
The name comes from the courthouse complex beside it, not from any court inside: the tower holds only offices. Its 30 floors and 405 ft (123 m) height place it among the taller buildings on the western edge of Downtown, in the Government Center district on Northwest 1st Avenue.
The tower stands on Northwest 1st Avenue at the western edge of Downtown Miami, in the Government Center district, near the Miami-Dade County Courthouse and the Stephen P. Clark Government Center. The building is office space rather than a courthouse, so there is no courtroom to visit; the surrounding civic buildings are the ones open to the public.
The tower's design closely mirrors that of the Southeast Financial Center, the 1984 skyscraper a few blocks away. Both rise from the western edge of Downtown Miami, and comparing their stepped, reflective facades is a quick way to read the city's 1980s building boom.
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