Part two of our look at the most creative, unique, and groundbreaking ideas and concepts from the past year and those to look out for in the future.
Conductor Michael Tilson Thomas directed construction equipment in sync with music and a pyrotechnic finale for the New World Symphony's Miami campus groundbreaking ceremony.
Alex Gort
Barton G. topped each table at the Jackson Memorial Foundation's annual Golden Angels Gala with a tall centerpiece of dark burgundy mini calla lilies and curly willow that resembled the fateful cyclone in The Wizard of Oz-the gala's theme-surrounded by ruby red apples at each pedestal's base.
Courtesy of Barton G.
Conductor Michael Tilson Thomas directed construction equipment in sync with music and a pyrotechnic finale for the New World Symphony's Miami campus groundbreaking ceremony.
Alex Gort
The bar at Bacardi's annual B-Live festival in Miami, provided by Room Service Furniture and Event Rentals, served guests their perfect Bacardi cocktail based on answers to a personality test they could take on the touch screens set up on either side.
Room Service
Guests at South Beach Food & Wine Festival's Burger Bash traded in their not-so-sand-friendly shoes-the party was in a tent on the beach-for a pair of Crocs, one of the event's sponsors.
BizBash
Citizen Events collaborated with Eventstar to create a 60-foot-high, 30,000-square-foot pool-spanning structure for the "In Fashion '07" exhibition during Art Basel 2007.
Courtesy of Citizen Events
Triton Productions employed an opera singer to perform perched above the doorway to the ballroom-through which guests would later enter-at the 13th annual Make-a-Wish Ball in Miami, with her long custom-made red skirt cascading over it.
Courtesy of Triton Productions
J Productions created an Egyptian atmosphere for the number seven hole of the Caddyshackland mini-golf-course-themed welcome reception at MPI's 17th annual SEC conference in Ponte Vedra Beach.
Christie's Photographic Studio
Legacy Marketing Partners teamed up with creative architecture agency Pompei A.D. and Cinnabar Production Services to transform Miami's 17,010-square-foot Ice Palace Film Studios into a hotel-themed space inspired by Russia's Hotel Moskva, which is pictured on the Stoli Vodka label.
Cristian Lazzari
A Marilyn Monroe look-alike glamorously stepped out of a white limousine, entered the theater past mock paparazzi stationed outside, and sneaked out the back repeatedly throughout the Ritz Ybor's 1920s-themed reopening party.
Photography by Chanele
Real estate brokers-turned-boxers put on their gloves for the inaugural Broker Boxing Federation event, held at one of Miami's top nightclubs, Mansion.
Mitchell Zachs of Magic Photos
