When lawyer and developer Shepard Broad created the town of Bay Harbor Islands 60 years ago from two mangrove clumps in the middle of Biscayne Bay, he recruited an all-star crew of local architects for a bold undertaking.
Over a dozen years, they forged a showcase of modern architecture with a decidedly subtropical twist on the town’s East Island — a cohesive collection of dozens of breezy duplexes, garden apartments and bigger co-op buildings regarded today as one of the most significant surviving troves of Miami Modern, or MiMo, design.
It may also be the most imperiled.