page_title: Richard Moreta Castillo
section_title: Design sevelopment, concepts, anad emphasis
hierarchical_section_title: Richard Moreta Castillo / Design sevelopment, concepts, anad emphasis
caption_attribution_description: English: Main tower and artificial island designed by Arch. Richard Moreta Castillo, created to be reproduced in different latitudes.
context_page_description: Richard Moreta Castillo, also known as Richard Moreta was born in New York City, on January 27, 1964, and grew up in the Dominican Republic. He is an architect, urban planner, industrial designer, artist, diplomat.
context_section_description: Richard Moreta specializes in cutting-edge, futuristic architecture. At the avant-garde of international architects, he combines the formal possibilities of structure with the available advances by using Digital Architecture, of which he is a pioneer. His buildings are dramatic, and are often characterized by the combination of spaciousness and the utilization of exposed structuring – thus mixing volumes and empty space to create unconventional patterns intriguing and appealing to the eye. He has been both praised and criticized as a "sculptor of monuments" and for being a great artist and one of the greatest architects of his generation. His many design awards give testimony of this evaluation.
  Moreta's work emphasizes as well the creative and innovative development of spatial solutions for the public sector. He has designed solutions for governments, international societies and communities. His design regarding ecological requirements and his work include public buildings.  
  In 2004, Moreta joined the firm Arquitectonica led by Bernardo Fort-Brescia, and was also the design director for various firms in South Florida. He was responsible for the design as project designer for dozens of buildings that reshaped, together with others, the landscape of the new Miami and Miami Beach during the construction boom of 2004–2006 in Florida as well as a number of other high-end towers, commercial buildings and hospitality designs in other latitudes.
  In 2002, Moreta cofounded, along with Victor Gane, the firm GMZ-Design, in Miami, Florida. GMZ-Design achieved notoriety implementing its signature style – dramatic and, daring and innovative, expressive in its usage of 'high tech modernism', and application of digital possibilities in the design process.  "Marquis" received international acclaim.
  Moreta is the principal and founder of Richard's Architecture + Design, Inc. (RA+D), in 2006. This firm's work runs the spectrum from design of large-scale, high-rise condominiums to hospitality projects, as well as intimate, small-scale low-rise residential and commercial units. Moreta is the Architect Designer and teamlLeader for projects involved in hospitality, high-end residential development, aviation, public, residential and commercial complex facilities. RA+D has worked with international the international community from the beginning, including commissions for upscale clients in Abu Dhabi, Dubai, São Paulo, Brazil, Romania, Bosnia, Russia, Italy, Germany, Mexico, Dominican Republic and Asia. Richard – give me details on where in Bosnia, Russia, Italy Germany Mexico Dominican Republic and Asia.
caption: Main Tower of The New Conference Center Grand Cancún, artificial island (Cancún, Mexico) 2012
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