“The naked guy was a bad omen. Architect Max Strang was scoping out the canal-side lot in Fort Lauderdale that Brad and Shona Tuckman had purchased for $2.25 million in 2014. The enviable waterfront location was where the couple planned to build their home.”

“‘This house is surprising for Miami,’ admits Max Strang, founding principal of Strang Design. While the city’s name typically conjures up visions of South Beach residences packed on prime palm-tree-lined waterfront properties, he and firm partners Alexandra Mangimelli and Elizabeth Starr created something altogether different for a family relocating from Brazil.”

“For more than 20 years, Max Strang has been creating high quality designs focused on academic and professional engagement. In 1998, he founded STRANG Design, a Florida-based architectural, interior design, and landscape design firm. Max’s design approach takes into account the future impact climate change will have on residential and urban development with designs that are thoughtfully integrated into South Florida’s subtropical climate.”

“A deft hand when it comes to blending modernist architecture and Florida's tropical climate, Miami architecture studio Strang Design has just completed a Brazil-inspired house that bears all the hallmarks of its author's style of ‘environmental modernism'.”

“In Miami Beach, the Janoura Residence is the epitome of tropical modern, crafted into such under the capable hands of Florida-based architecture practice Strang Design. The Florida home strikes a note of sophistication with its take on more natural materials and finishes, a departure from the typical ‘white box’ aesthetic that dominates the area”

“In Miami Beach, the Janoura Residence is the epitome of tropical modern, crafted into such under the capable hands of Florida-based architecture practice Strang Design. The Florida home strikes a note of sophistication with its take on more natural materials and finishes, a departure from the typical ‘white box’ aesthetic that dominates the area.”

“‘I wanted this project to capture that spirit through its materiality and views,’ says Strang Design’s founder and director, Max Strang, talking of his latest project’s location in Coconut Grove. ‘Some units are blessed with wide open water views while others embrace the intimacy of living within the Grove’s famous tree canopy. Overall, though, I wanted each resident to enjoy the natural beauty and calmness of this historic neighbourhood of Miami.’”

“Shelter is a contemporary Miami residence set within the lush tropical vegetation of Florida, as much ‘of its place’ as it could be. The private home is an elegant blend of indoor and outdoor areas, and native greenery, bringing the owners one with nature at every turn – not only through its gardens, but also high ceilings, large openings and paved terraces that allow the light to travel and the eye to wander.”

“From the outside, the newly built, intensely contemporary home in the Coconut Grove neighborhood of Miami perfectly blends all the clean lines and distinctive geometries of a modernist dream house. Board-formed concrete? Check. Jerusalem stone? Check. Wood-like aluminum louvers? Check, check, check. Upon entering its spacious interiors, however, a residence that deftly bridges a rectilinear and sculptural exterior with warm, classic interiors is revealed.”