supreme opens new miami store with colossal floating skate bowl
supreme arrives in miami design district
In a city known for its pastel palettes and Art Deco drama, Supreme’s new store in Miami makes a different kind of statement with its bold and brutalist-inspired interiors. Designed by Brinkworth in collaboration with architect Neil Logan and the Wilson Brothers, the retail space avoids conformity and seeks to literally elevate skate culture. Inside the two-story structure, a colossal wooden skate bowl hovers overhead like a sculptural UFO.
Located in Miami’s Design District, a neighborhood already full of architectural flexing, Supreme Miami transforms a concrete-frame shell into something entirely new. Brinkworth and its longtime collaborators didn’t raze and rebuild. Instead, they stripped the building to its core, removing staircases and interiors to introduce a language of minimalism that is both brand-specific and site-responsive. ‘Supreme is so clear about the brand’s vision, and who its customers are,’ said Brinkworth’s Managing Director Sam Derrick. ‘When the client and the design team share a strong conviction, it sets the foundation for something extraordinary.’
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designers draw from skate culture
The floating bowl at Supreme Miami is the showstopper, which Steve Badgett of Simparch designed in collaboration with Brinkworth, architect Neil Logan and the Wilson Brothers. The suspended horseshoe structure floats eight feet above ground between two concrete columns, reimagining a feature already seen in the brand’s Shanghai location. But here in Miami, the intervention takes on a sculptural role — casting shadows, shaping space, and creating a strange but satisfying dialogue between voids and volumes. It’s a spatial experience as much as a skateable surface.
Across from the wooden bowl, a massive video wall floods the store with moving imagery — looping through archival Supreme skate footage like a live history lesson in motion. Art and design bleed together in other moments too. A site-specific artwork by Dave X, a large mural by Rita Ackerman, and a pre-cast concrete bench modeled on Miami’s Martin Luther King skate spot anchor the interior with local references and brand lore.
a concrete-frame building reimagined in Miami Design District
fronted by a perforated facade
From the outside, the new Supreme store plays with the Miami sunlight in a way that’s unexpected. A system of perforated metal panels wraps the facade, filtering the intense Southern sun during the day and casting an ethereal glow from within at night. It’s part camouflage, part lantern — and it’s a reminder that even a store built around T-shirts and skate decks can architecturally hold its own.
The project also marks fifteen years of collaboration between Brinkworth and Supreme, a relationship built on a shared history in skate culture and a refusal to compromise. Supreme Miami may be the brand’s most refined store yet — pared-back, unflashy, but structurally inventive and deeply rooted in place. A fitting addition to a city that thrives on contrasts.
a suspended horseshoe bowl is showcased eight feet above the floor
a giant video wall plays brand archival footage
the exterior features a facade of perforated panels that diffuse light
interiors includes artwork by dave X and a mural by Rita Ackerman
