{"id":199368,"date":"2022-08-29T14:01:08","date_gmt":"2022-08-29T18:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/interiordesign.net\/?post_type=id_project&p=199368"},"modified":"2022-10-24T14:22:27","modified_gmt":"2022-10-24T18:22:27","slug":"mkda-jorge-m-perez-headquarters-miami","status":"publish","type":"id_project","link":"https:\/\/interiordesign.net\/projects\/mkda-jorge-m-perez-headquarters-miami\/","title":{"rendered":"This MKDA-Designed Headquarters in Miami Features Museum-Ready Art"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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MKDA puts a modern spin on a classic coffered ceiling in the art-filled lobby of developer Related Group\u2019s headquarters building in Miami; the colorful statue is by Niki de Saint Phalle. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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August 29, 2022<\/p>\n\n\n

Words: <\/span>Michael Lassell<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Photography: <\/span>Alexander Severin<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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This MKDA-Designed Headquarters in Miami Features Museum-Ready Art<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

If you live in Miami and care about art and architecture, you\u2019ll be familiar with Jorge M. P\u00e9rez and Related Group, the development company he founded in 1979. Born in 1949 in Argentina to Cuban parents, and raised in Colombia, P\u00e9rez emigrated in 1968 to this country. After earning a master\u2019s degree in urban planning from the University of Michigan, he began his career by constructing affordable housing, graduating to high-rise apartment buildings in both North and South America. Now a billionaire art collector and philanthropist, the \u201cKing of the Condo,\u201d as some call him, made such a transformative gift to the former Miami Art Museum that the institution was renamed the P\u00e9rez Art Museum Miami when it moved into its new Herzog & de Meuron home in 2013.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2021, Related relocated its headquarters to the top two floors of a new LEED-certified concrete-and-glass building in Coconut Grove, Miami\u2019s historically art-minded neighborhood, where P\u00e9rez and his wife, Darlene, live\u2014as do Bernardo Fort-Brescia and Laurinda Spear, the founding principals of Arquitectonica, which designed the eight-story gem. To create the building\u2019s interiors, P\u00e9rez turned to the Miami studio of MKDA, a multicity firm that made its reputation by revolutionizing the fashion showrooms of Manhattan\u2019s Garment District. Regional managing principal Amanda Hertzler and her team joined the project early on, working most closely with Related senior vice president Nicholas P\u00e9rez, Jorge\u2019s son (his brother Jon Paul is the company\u2019s president), but much of the proceedings were driven by the founder and CEO himself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n