Miami Beach Botanical Garden Master Plan & Capital Improvements

Miami Beach, Florida | ongoing

The Miami Beach Botanical Garden Master Plan reimagines the garden as a climate adaptive civic landscape that teaches resilience, celebrates biodiversity, and weaves architecture into the living fabric of place. The concept centers on transforming the garden into a case study of coastal resiliency, rooted in local ecology, public engagement, and incremental transformation. By framing the site as both a botanical sanctuary and a toolkit for survival in a changing climate, the project balances visionary ambition with grounded, replicable strategies.

The garden is divided into two symbolic sections: The Garden of the Future, an experimental, forward-thinking zone with adaptive planting systems, solar infrastructure, and civic programming; and The Garden of Memory, which preserves the site's mature trees, ecological identity, and layered public history. The garden’s edges become civic thresholds, inviting new forms of engagement along Convention Center Drive, 19th Street, and the Collins Canal.

Architect: Shulman + Associates
Engineer: Moffatt & Nichol, Waggonner & Ball
Landscape Architect: Naturalficial

Client: City of Miami Beach, Miami Beach Botanical Gardens

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