The new Legacy Tower at Miami Worldcenter was designed to be a one-of-a-kind residential, hospitality, health and well-being urban ecosystem, architect Kobi Karp has explained.
Miami to get world’s first Covid-ready skyscraper
Legacy Tower at Miami Worldcenter was designed to face future sanitary emergencies, aiming to be a pandemic-ready urban ecosystem.
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- Lucia Brandoli
- 25 October 2021
The 600-feet tall building will host residences, an hotel and a 10-floor medical center, with technologically advanced health and well-being services. The medical center will include a diagnostic lab testing suite for preemptive health evaluations, a pharmacy, surgery rooms, medically equipped rooms, ultrasound imaging facilities, x-ray, MRI and CT Scan.
In the event of a public health emergency, as Covid, the Legacy Tower is equipped with medical gases and ventilators. Since the skyscraper will host a medical center, an hotel and residences all in one structure, according to the designers it will create a pandemic-ready space that will allow more easily residents and guest to shelter in place.
Image courtesy of Royal Palm Companies.
Image courtesy of Royal Palm Companies.
Image courtesy of Royal Palm Companies.