FRANKEL BENAYOUN ARCHITECTS was established in 1975 in Miami Beach, Florida. Since that time, the firm has demonstrated consistent excellence in providing clients with a wide variety of solutions for all types of architectural projects, with an emphasis on personal attention and design capabilities. The firm’s highly experienced team of professionals works in concert to provide a full range of architectural services including master planning, computer operations, urban design, and interiors.
FBA’s Architecture provides superbly crafted work; the result of disciplined and rigorous efforts expressed in a contemporary modern vernacular. FBA is sensitive to the site context, committing to Solar Orientations to maximize the natural light and ventilation as well as exploring new potentials to incorporate nature, and in some instances creating new landscape realities, connecting the indoor and outdoor lifestyles.
Markus Frankel and Ifhat Benayoun Fishman are continuously motivated by the possibilities of each site and project, and are driven by a commitment to artistically link buildings to existing landscapes, and to enhance the elements of nature aesthetically.
FBA blends and unites their structures with hardscape and landscape materials, each design element enhancing the other. FBA commits to their Architectural Concepts with a deliberate landscape expression, which enhances their buildings for the public ground image, as well as within the building spaces, the vertical facades, which reserve their special roof-top functions for both recreation and gardens.
FBA commits to a palette of landscape materials appropriate to their natural settings, for sustainability and beauty.
FBA’s work aspires to enrich the human experience. Their interior spaces create spatial environments defined by organized structural order, with vertical planes of glass, light, volume and landscape elements. FBA interiors enrich the Architecture and spatial environments to add value, lasting quality and memorable experiences.
FBA’s approach to Interior Design follows the same rigorous efforts applied to their Architectural Designs, and consider the building as a whole, with a unified concept for Architecture, Landscape and Interiors.
Over the years FBA has produced many successful and varied Real Estate Development ventures for clients, both as Equity Partners and Project Managers for the projects. Markus Frankel is also a Licensed R.E. Broker, as well as an Equity Investor and Developer of real estate throughout the State of Florida. As such, FBA understands the total development process, including the Programming, the Design Approvals & Permitting Process, the Cost and Proforma Analyses and Project Scheduling, as well as Project Management Services for R.E. Developers. FBA provides a multitude of Services for Owner, Investors, and Developers, and encourage new uses and value enhancement for the Owner’s R.E. Assets and investment opportunities.
On many occasions, FBA has produced Design-Build Turn-key Services for private Owners, Institutional and Public Agencies, which included Mix-Use Residential Developments, Commercial, Office Buildings, Educational, Cultural, and Garage projects. As such, FBA teams with Developers and Public Agencies, and often with Specialized Design Consultants, Engineers, and General Contractors to produce a Design-Build project from programming through the completion of construction and occupancy, as a truly convenient and worthy Turn-key delivery system, to timely control Schedules and Budgets.
