Miami Herald reports on Fentress winning convention center redo

The Miami Herald covered Denver's Fentress Architects winning the first phase of a $500 million renovation at the Miami Convention Center.

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Fentress will serve as the design criteria professional for a renovation that will cost $500 million. As the design criteria professional, Fentress will draw up partial plans for the project. Its plans will become the basis of another city bid, this one for a "design-build" firm. The design-build firm will finish the plans and build the project.

Fentress specializes in designing public buildings. Its work has included convention centers in Denver, San Diego and Santa Fe.

Michael Winters, director of design and interiors for Fentress, said the studio aims to design a convention center that will "give back to the urban and civic environment."
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