The new Gehry building and parking garage are helping revive the corners of Lincoln Road in Miami Beach. The open-air parking garage evolved into a modern gateway to the café scene of Lincoln Road that matches the innovative concert hall designed by Frank Gehry on the other end of the road.

1111 Lincoln Road is not just an ordinary parking garage. It is often visited by residents and tourists alike. The building’s fifth level has high-end shopping stores while the developer’s penthouse apartment can be found at the top.

It was designed by the Swiss firm Herzog & de Meuron, who also designed the Bird’s Net stadium in Beijing for the 2008 Olympics.

The building has a gray concrete structure that looks unfinished in comparison to other parking garages. It has no exterior walls, but the seven parking levels feel more like terraces to the scenic views of Miami Beach. It opens to a black and white tiled plaza with bubble-like sculptures and shaded pools.

Developer Robert Wennet said people like the building not because of its cool stores, but because there is something to look at. Wennet said he did not plan to create a masterpiece when he purchased the land and its adjacent bank building.

Local zoning laws required a parking garage for the site, but Wennet wanted something that could serve as a public space and refurbish the original entrance to the Lincoln Road.

Gehry also created a new home for the New World Symphony as requested by its founder and artistic director, Michael Tilson Thomas. The white box-shaped building opens through a glass wall that shows a lobby lounge, spiral staircase and administrative offices. Rehearsal rooms are also enclosed in glass, some are visible from the lobby while others from the street.

Founded in 1987, the New World Symphony is an orchestral academy. They had performed and studied in a revamped 1930s movie house on Lincoln Road since 1989. Gehry saved much for the building’s new interior. He said it was more appropriate to work on the building from the inside.

Founder Thomas said he wanted a building that would break the barriers between musicians, audiences and people intimidated by classical music.