Miami at Night

"...The buildings themselves seemed to swim free against the sky: there had grown up in Miami during the recent money years [ the 1980s] an architecture which appeared to have slipped its moorings, a not inappropriate style for a terrain with only a provisional claim on being land at all. Surfaces were reflective, opalescent.  Angles were oblique, intersecting to disorienting effect...."
Joan Didion, 1987, Miami



Here a view from the InterContinental in Miami.  There is a tiny island of green floating in the blue water.





Here are some sketches of the many swimming pools and carefully landscaped gardens among the pastel hotels and high rise apartments.