TIME's 2026 picks — Miami reef
TIME’s 2026 'World’s Greatest Places' list names Miami Beach among the highlights — now featuring an underwater sculpture park and snorkel trail that doubles as a low‑carbon, living coral reef art installation. (timeout.com). The list also calls out London’s new V&A East Storehouse and California’s Highway 1 as top travel draws for 2026. (timeout.com)
REEFLINE is a seven-mile underwater public sculpture park and hybrid reef conceived by curator Ximena Caminos and masterplanned with OMA partner Shohei Shigematsu. (miamibeachfl.gov) The project’s inaugural work, Concrete Coral by Leandro Erlich, consists of 22 life‑size car modules cast in marine‑grade, pH‑neutral concrete and arranged as a submerged “traffic jam.” (thereefline.org) Crews lowered the 22 car sculptures about 20 feet below the surface roughly 780–800 feet off 4th–5th Street in October 2025, with individual modules reported to weigh up to sixteen tons. (miamibeachfl.gov) REEFLINE’s Miami Native Coral Lab is currently growing about 2,200 resilient native corals that will be outplanted onto the modules using patented Coral Lok attachment technology. (thereefline.org) The initiative is partly funded by a voter‑approved $5 million Arts & Culture general‑obligation bond and is structured as an 11‑phase campaign seeking roughly $40 million to complete the full seven‑mile corridor and outplant “thousands” of corals. (miamilivingmagazine.com) Several future modules are planned from artists including Petroc Sesti and Carlos Betancourt, the scheme uses low‑carbon materials such as the CarbonXinc geopolymer eco‑concrete to act as a carbon sink, and the project has drawn attention from global prizes and outlets. (gsd.harvard.edu)
