Overview
Archipelago is a condo development spotted in the Extended Look’s street footage, and the name is the pitch: Vice City is a chain of islands, so why not buy a slice of one with a lobby. Miami’s real condo boom has been naming towers after geography for decades, usually geography the tower then blocks the view of.
Between Archipelago, Climax Condominiums and the developers at Blackwell Sandrock, the Extended Look sketches a property market in full speculative froth, which for a Florida satire is not set dressing so much as documentary.
Real-world basis
Quantum on the Bay
Not a company but a real building: spotters matched the signage to Quantum on the Bay, a condominium complex in Miami's Edgewater neighbourhood.
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