Article "The Death ad Life(?) of the Miami Marine Stadium. A story featuring Marine Stadium architect Hilario Candela.

This is a well written cover story about thhe status of the Marine Stadium initiative.

Robert Hammond and Phil Aarons at Miami Marine Stadium

On March 8, the City of Miami Commission will consider legislation to create a partnership between Friends of Miami Marine Stadium, the Miami Sports and Exhibition Authority and the City of Miami to develop plans to restoe the Stadium. We are asking people to email the City Commission to support this legislation.

February was a very big month for Friends of Miami Marine Stadium. On Feb. 17, Robert Hammond and Phil Aarons, Co-Founder and Founding Chair of The High Line delivered a lecture entitled "The High Line-New York's Park In The Sky: Lessons for Miami Marine Stadium.  The lecture was delivered to a full house at the University of Miami School of Architecture and was co-sponsored by the Miami Chapter of the American Insttitute of Architects.

We also honored Jack Meyer, engineer of the Marine Stadium at Biscayne Bay Yacht Club. The event was sold out-160 people-and featured Miami Mayor Tomas Regalado, speakers from the engineering profession and the Universtiy of Miami School of Engineering, Jack's alma mater.

Information about Feb. 17 High Line Presentation at University of Miami and Feb. 29 Dinner to Honor Jack Meyer, Engineer of Miami marine Stadium

On February 17, Robert Hammand, Co-Founder of New York's famed High Line, and Phil Aarons, Founding Chair, came to Miami to deliver a presentation on behalf of Friends of Miami Marine Stadium entitled "The High LIne-New York's Park In The Sky: Lessons For Miami Marine Stadium. The High Line-an elevated freight railway running through lower Manhattan, has been turned into a public park and is an enormous success. We believe that the restoration of the Marine Stadium can be a similar success.

This artcile discusses both initiatives and describes Robert's first visit to the Marine Stadium.

We have made over 50 community presentations to various organizations in Miami. The Natives of Dade are know as much about the history of Miami as any group. We are apppreciative to have their full support for the restoration of the Marine Stadium.

Dragon Boat races are the fastest growing outdoor spectator sport in the world. The Miami Dragon Slayers have worked with us since we formed in 2008. There is tremendous opportunity for major dragon boat festivals at the Marine Stadium.

As part of our community outreach effort, we constantly seek out local press. This excellent article in The Biscayne Bay Tribune provides an accurate and up to date review of our efforts to restore the Marine Stadium

Triathlons are a rapidly growing sport and the South Florida Triathletes (SFT), with over 500 members, is the most important particapatory triathlon group in South Florida.

Even in its current state, the Marine Stadium is used for major triathlon events. We have worked with SFT for several years, and we look forward to collaborating with them to make the Marine Stadium and Basin a world class triathlon venue.

This is The Herald's 7th favorable editorial about our efforts to restore the Marine Stadium. While the editorial is favorable, we should note that Friends of Miami Marine Stadium was formed not just to restore the Stadium, but to have it operate for the benefit of the community.   We take this responsibility very seriously.

Friends of Miami Marine Stadium to go to January, 26 Miami City Commission meeting to be designated as developer for the Marine Stadium. Call for support! Also, description of High Line event on February 17 and dinner honoring Jack Meyer, engineer of the Marine Stadium on February 29.

An article by David Sokol entitled "Revival On The Horizon For Historic Miami Marine Stadium"; explains our proposal to develop the Stadium

to Honor Jack Meyer, Engineer of the Miami Marine Stadium. At Biscayne Bay Yacht Club.

Negotiiations are continuing with the City and they are positive. We hope to be back to the Miami City Commission in the next several months with a proposal to develop the Marine Stadium site.

Robert Hammond Co-Founder of Friends of The High Line and Philip Aarons, Founding Chair, will deliver a talk entitled "The High LIne-New York's Park In The Sky: Lessons for Miami Marine Stadium" at U of Miami School of Architecture on Friday evening, February 17. The High Line is a terrific role model for our effort.

Friends of Miami Marine Stadium will also honor Jack Meyer, the engineer of the Marine Stadium on February 29 at the Biscayne Bay Yacht Club. More details to follow in future emails.

The attached photo is of the Circus Maximus, which was used for chariot races. The shape of the Circus Maximus-the elongated oval-was used to design the Marine Stadium Basin, which was dredged out the same time the Stadium was built.

Up to date description of efforts of Friends of Miami Marine Stadium to work out a development plan with the City of Miami.

The Miami Marine Stadium is the basis for a video installation displayed during Art Basel. We expect that once the Marine Stadium is up and running, it will host major art events for Art Basel.

As of December, 2011, we had made presentations about the Marine Stadium to seven Rotary Clubs, four Chambers of Commerce, and other business organizations. The Marine Stadium always gets a great response. We look forward to working with the Miami Beach Chamber-and the many other business organizations we work with-to make the Marine Staidum a real economic asset to our community.

The Miami Symphony Orchestra (MISO) is Miami's flagship professional orchestra. Tho organization enthusiastically supports the restoration of the Miami Marine Stadium and envisions doing a concert series at the Stadium.

The formal title of this paper is "The Shells of the Miami Marine Stadium: Synergy Between Form, Force and Environment". The principal author of this paper was Sigrid Adriaenssens, An Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering at Princeton Univesity. It was written for the 7th International Conference on Computational Mechanics for Spatial Structures, to be held in Sarajevo and is part of the Proceedings of IASS-IACM 2012. For more information, go to the website (http://www.gf.unsa.ba/iass-iacm-2012/

While the paper is technical it explains-in layman's terms- why the roof of the Marine Stadium works so well to create a very comfortable viewing experience.

Forum Journal is the quarterly publication of the National Trust For Historic Preservation. This article, which was the cover story for the magazine, was written by Co-Founder of Friends of Miami Marine Stadium Jorge Hernandez and makes the case for the exceptional significance of the Marine Stadium.