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A N I N T E R V I E W W I T H Michael Miller Key West architect


Richard Tallmadge | RT You more than graciously stepped in to donate your services to come up with some kind of conceptual scheme for this 1.1 acres. Tis has become your project, so tell us about your plans for it.


Michael Miller | MM It’s a green project. It’s a project that blends park elements with parking requirements as well as a city fire station. It’s strategically located with respect to Duval Street and Simonton Street corridors, which are very busy. When I got into conversations about the possibility of using the site as a park/parking lot, and was asked to develop a conceptual scheme for it, what drove me immediately to a concept was this idea of pedestrian interface with Duval and Southard streets. Tat really drove the diagram in my field. At one point there was some thought that it would be more of a park than a parking lot, and I bounced that off a colleague who told Continued


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t’s a green project. It’s a project that blends park elements with


parking requirements as well as a city fire station. . . . what drove me immediately to a concept was this idea of pedestrian interface with Duval and Southard streets. . . . It became a design probem to make a parking lot into


a park. lMichael Miller


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TALLMADGE TALK SHOW HOST


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