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The mercenaries they hire for a few credits a kill are too few, too unreliable to do so either.

The Cooperative's police force, concentrated near a few influential planets, can no longer maintain order. The trade ships that once safely travelled between planets now have to be well armed and escorted to fend off pirate attacks, from small-time criminals desperate for their next meal, to powerful robber barons extracting tithes from everyone who passes through their space.

The two thousand star systems of the Cooperative once enjoyed a golden age of peace and prosperity, and perhaps the wealthiest of them can still pretend to. Perhaps one day, everyone might know your name. You've got a ship, some weapons, and enough spare cash to get started - and one day, you might get the fame, wealth or glory you want. Water bubbles up through limestone’s holes - considered by scientists to be a major factor in the sea-level rise which has already swamped some local neighborhoods even on sunny days.Among the seven trillion people who are - at least officially - Cooperative citizens, you are nobody. Many Miamians may be less enthused about oolite, or, as it’s more commonly known, limestone. All of these things reflect who we are and what we hope to become.”

#Miami oolite series

“I’ve always loved the texture of oolite and the way it was formed - which is a series of disparate granules that come together and create a porous but strong bedrock. “Oolite is what Miami is made of it just sung to us,” Mr. “The Upper East Side of Miami is where the contemporary art community is basically relocating,” he said, citing its critical mass of artists and well-respected galleries - many of whom have taken a cue from the ArtCenter’s South Beach history lesson on gentrification and bought their properties outright, rather than sign leases.Ī name change for the ArtCenter is also in store, to Oolite Arts, a reference to Miami’s underlying geology. Scholl felt Little Haiti was a natural fit for the ArtCenter. “We believe Miami is and should be a 365-day-a-year art town, not a five-day-a-year art town,” he said, addressing criticism that local art activity is anemic outside of the annual Art Basel fair.Īccordingly, Mr. Scholl continued in a recent interview, with a focus on career support for emerging artists. The newly expanded mission is to beef up Miami’s art infrastructure, Mr. “We need a facility that reflects our aspirations,” Dennis Scholl, the ArtCenter president and chief executive said, adding that an architect would be selected by May, with groundbreaking set for September 2020 and a planned opening in Spring 2022. Oolite’s new facility will have an energy-conscious design, including skylights, solar chimneys, wind catchers (for passive cooling), vegetation for cooling, and rainwater tanks, all designed to attain LEED certification. Barozzi Veiga of Barcelona is designing the new building. It will be moving to the mainland Miami neighborhood of Little Haiti, where it will build a new $30 million, 40,000-square-foot art center with 22 studios for resident artists, a 2,500-square-foot exhibition space, a 120-seat theater, as well as classrooms and work spaces for an expanded array of instructional courses on mediums like painting and filmmaking. Oolite Arts has announced plans to build a new Miami headquarters at 75 NW 72nd Street. The ArtCenter is finally announcing plans for its Cinderella-like windfall (one that, thanks to investments, has since swollen to $100 million, more than the endowment of any other South Florida visual arts organization, many of whom have been struggling to fund-raise even a fraction of that sum).

A scrappy organization founded to provide affordable studios, and largely ignored by the city’s marquee art institutions, was suddenly poised to become a major player. Miami’s art world has been waiting for the other cultural shoe to drop since 2014, when the nonprofit ArtCenter/South Florida sold one of its two buildings for $88 million - after buying it in 1988 for only $684,000, when the surrounding South Beach neighborhood was more sketchy than stylish.