Designer Yves Béhar
Newgard Development Group has tapped award-winning entrepreneur and sustainability advocate Yves Béhar to design its new 37-floor residential tower in downtown Miami, according to the company. Yves Béhar was recognized by Condé Nast as designer of the year in 2011.
The Centro building, at 151 Southeast First Street, will feature one and two-bedroom loft-style homes. It will offer Car2Go smart cars, a bike-share program and a valet, but no parking space.
Béhar’s San Francisco-based industrial design and branding firm, fuseproject, envisions minimal walls and room divisions. The units will contain “geometric patterns” and “organic forms in machined aluminum” from Neal Feay, Swarovski amplify lights, Herman Miller and custom furniture, the release said. –Mark Maurer