http://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/co...59204.html

The University of Miami plans to spend around $155 million on a major new dormitory complex on Lake Osceola, further cementing the institution’s transition from a college with a majority of commuting students to a school increasingly centered around a traditional on-campus undergraduate experience.

The plan, designed by Miami-based architectural giant Arquitectonica, would in addition advance the greening of the UM campus by creating an expansive lawn and a tropical garden on the lakefront. The dorms, raised on thin columns and arranged in the shape of a lasso, would be set amid green-bedecked courtyards, plazas and outdoor spaces. Green roofs — that is, roofs literally covered by cooling green grass — would top the dorms.
-- Miami Herald

WAZUP HOMIE

This is awesome! Good for Miami - or more accurately, good for the students who get to live in them.

And there is a 100% chance that this will cause an insane number of lawsuits. I'd hate to be the guys designing/building it.

Great news for Miami. Not a fan of that design though.

Can I have a room with a lake view?

http://www.miamiherald.com/living/health...09064.html

A new medical center opens at the University of Miami ... slated to be the “flagship” of outpatient care for UHealth, the UM Health System.

It will house satellite offices for some of UHealth’s best-known “brands,” including Bascom Palmer Eye Institute and the Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, as well as a number of medical specialists. The Uhealth Sports Medicine Institute also will have a space in the new center.
-- Miami Herald

thanks guys ...
in love of team ...
sometimes we lose focus of school's mission statement ...
for a small private like Miami ...
finite funds pose a million-dollar dilemma ...
how to maximize limited resources ...
some blow their wad on erecting & maintaining an ostentatious football cathedral ...
others see the errors of their ways ...
opting instead on the latest residential dorm, medical center, hurricanesfootballfacility.com ...
no virginia, there is no santa claus ...

U CAN'T HAVE IT ALL