But even Andres Duany provides a retort to this perception, and has designed a project that (at least partially) proves it. "Aqua breaks the mold of what many people perceive TND to be, but that’s a misconception. New Urbanism is not style-based. Aqua makes that clear."

Aqua is mid-sized infill project (8.5 acres) on Allison Island in Miami Beach. It is the site of a former hospital and the project reuses an existing parking garage/office building.

Orginally posted 1/17/2005
New article: Slatin Report - Chilly Design, Hot Aqua

Link: Aqua | Allison Island - hehe... aqua.net ;-)
Article: The Next American City - New Urban Meets Modern in South Florida
Article: HousingZone.com - Andres Duany & Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk: Home/Work (2002)
Firm: Duany Plater-Zyberk & Company
Via: Planetizen

The building were designed by a number of different architects including Walter Chatham, Alison Spear, Alexander Gorlin, Hariri & Hariri and Duany Plater-Zyberk.

The Aqua plan brings a new kind of living environment to the high-rise-laden beach. Taking a cue from nearby South Beach, its modernist buildings are organized into a traditional urbanist structure, creating a place that has the vibrancy of a city but the intimacy of a village. The design encourages pedestrian activity by providing tree-lined streets that divide the neighborhood into small blocks and by ensuring that the beach homes and apartment buildings equally engage the street.