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FIU Architecture Students Target Virrick Park
The students want to know if the park with recreation center, swimming pool-to-be, library and more needs any changes.
Coconut Grove, Fla. -- Hurricane Idalia was churning toward the Gulf of Mexico when students from the FIU School of Architecture on Monday visited Elizabeth Virrick Park, where a swimming pool is being constructed.
Their goal: To determine if residents in this area that is undergoing gentrification think that the park, with curved recreation center that tends to be more immune to wind damage than traditional structures, needs any changes.
Elizabeth Virrick Park also features a playground, picnic tables, grills, shade areas and benches and provides a home to a branch of the Miami-Dade Public Library.
The FIU School of Architecture was founded as the first public school of architecture in Miami and consistently ranks in the Top 20 public schools of architecture in the United States.
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The school graduates more Hispanic students than any other and offers only graduate degrees for undergraduate and graduate students.