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If a monument could transport people + connect a city, bridge its waters + soar above its skyline, get its energy from the sun + transform itself from a horizontal bridge into a viewing tower, it probably wouldn’t be a monument... at least not your mother’s idea of a monument.

The 2005 Miami Monument Design Competition sought visionary designs for a marker that would celebrate the city of Miami and distinguish its skyline from that of other great cities in the world.

The structure had to encourage civic involvement, as well as strengthen the urban fabric of Miami by creating an iconic structure—a monument—to the pioneering and evolving nature of Miami.

First Place winner of the competition, Roberto Rovira's "Miami Sunspars" proposes two iconic solar-powered structures capable of transforming from vertical monuments into horizontal pedestrian bridges at the heart of the city’s new cultural epicenter.