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Ocean Drive – Miami Beach
Ocean Drive is a very famous promenade and the oldest known district of Miami Beach.
Ocean Drive Art Deco district of Miami Beach photo by OKstudio
This world-famous party-street is stretched for few kilometers along the greenish square with palms, the beach volleyball fields, jogging and cycling paths, and, of course, the Atlantic Ocean itself, with its beautiful sandy South Beach.
South Beach of Miami photo by OKstudio
Ocean Drive is always the first thing that comes to your mind when thinking about Miami Beach.
Well-known hotels of the Art Deco district became the symbols of Miami Beach and familiar to many travelers from the idyllic luxury photos of the place.
Ocean Drive Art Deco district of Miami Beach photo by OKstudio
Art Deco district of Miami, with its stylish hotels – protected by the National Register of United States Historical Monuments – is adding to the atmosphere some bright colors.
Architectural style of the Art Deco
Architectural style of the Art Deco got its fame on the international exhibition in Paris, in 1925.
Art Deco style is a combo of such styles as, for example, Art Nouveau, Cubism and Expressionism. At that time, the building of Ocean Drive had just started. Attracted by the new fashion trends in architecture, the Ocean Drive’s architects decided to develop an unrepeatable style of the “tropical art deco”, which embodied into life in the appearances of the Ocean Drive hotels – as we know them today.
Ocean Drive promenade of Miami Beach photo by OKstudio
The hotels of Ocean Drive are looking like the oceanic liners, many of them are decorated with flamingo and sunrays, and almost every single hotel has its own unique history.
Today, the visitors of Ocean Drive are able not only to see the famous Tropical Deco style hotels, but settle in them for the few days. That is typical only for Florida!
Hotel Avalon 3* of Ocean Drive is located right on the Ocean Drive since 1941 – it is a perfect example of the “streamline-modern” with almost no any kind of decorations on its facade and the asymmetric design, full of rectangle-shaped elements.
Hotel Beacon 4* from 1936 also belongs to the typical hotels of Ocean Drive, completed in Art Deco style with the traditional abstract decorations above its windows and the very-very typical color spectrum. The glass of its show-windows is decorated with the engraved flamingos.
Art Deco interior of Beacon hotel of Ocean Drive photo by OKstudio
Majestic 3* hotel of the Ocean Drive is built in according with the project of a famous architect Albert Anisa, and decorated with the magnificent brass doors.
Cavalier 3* hotel and Leslie 4* hotel of the Ocean Drive are completed in a style of classical Art Deco, using very colors typical for that style.
The glass show-windows of the popular night bar, placed on the first floor of the Cleavelander 3* hotel of the Ocean Drive were also projected by Albert Anisa , and they also belong to the set of classical decorations of the Tropical Florida’s Art Deco, of the Ocean Drive in Miami
Nightclub and lounge C-LEVEL hotel Cleavelander photo by OKstudio
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The whole entire length of the promenade is 2.5 km, and it’s easy to pass it all in half an hour. But that’s the place, where is concentrated all the resort and entertaining life of Miami: bars and restaurants with the diverse cuisine and wonderful cool cocktails, all-night-long opened clubs!
Numerous, numerous tourists are coming here from all over the world to relax on the perfect South Beach during the day, and to find fun and entertainments during the evening and night – that’s all about the Ocean Drive of Miami – about the entertainment focus of Florida!
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Promenade of Miami Beach photo by OKstudio