Wings Across A Bay

摘要

The gentle salty breezes at the Bayside Marketplace in Miami, Florida, attract shoppers, diners and curiosity seekers to this up scale outdoor shopping mall flanking the bay. To control the occasional gusts that upset hats, umbrellas and hairdos at the Tradewinds Bar & Grill, as well as provide shelter from rain, the restaurant contacted Awningsrnof Hollywood, a Miami fabricator, to value engineer a six-sail tension structure proposed by the restaurant's original architect. The scaled down alternate - including the originally-proposed LED lighting and fiber optics - nicely captures the festive mood of the setting in a gull-winged canopy that delicately touches down between tables at several points, leaving the view of the bay unobstructed.