Giant Spiral Slide Opens At Aventura Mall

AVENTURA, FL - A 93-foot-tall spiral structure by Belgian artist Carsten Höller and located at the entrance to Aventura Mall’s new expansion wing opened to the public Monday. The Aventura Slide Tower is both a towering landmark and exhilarating slide and it is part of the first phase of the mall's $214 million expansion.

“The slide can be experienced both by sliding down it or by viewing it from the outside with people coming down in it—which are different, but both powerful, experiences,” said Höller, who is world-renowned for large-scale artworks. This is Höller’s first slide in the United States.

“I have long asked what would be the result of sliding if it was part of the daily routine?” Höller said. “Can slides become part of our experiential and architectural life? Aventura Mall has given me the opportunity to test my ongoing hypotheses, using a slide to reshape the typical mall experience.”

The new installation is part of the Arts Aventura Mall program, which includes more than a dozen museum-quality works positioned throughout the center.

Mall visitors can experience the Aventura Slide Tower at the lower level entrance to the new wing. The slide is open 10 a.m. to -5:30 p.m. daily. The mall is located at 19501 Biscayne Blvd.

The mall's new three-level, 315,000 square-foot expansion wing includes the Treats Food Hall on the third level, with more than a dozen vendors open by the end of 2018. The mall also is adding some prominent tenants, including a two-level Topshop Topman store, marking the British brand's arrival to Miami.

Images via Aventura Mall