Midline Miami
Miami, FL
Completed, 2026
Located in the heart of Wynwood, Midline is a 10,000-square-foot, multi-level live music venue designed to be as dynamic as the performances it hosts. Commissioned by nightlife veterans BLNK CNVS, the venue serves as a "blank canvas" for genres ranging from R&B to electronic and alternative rock.
Photography by Trey Thomas
Miami, FL — January 2026 —As the debut interior design project for Sinclair Collective, Midline embodies our practice’s core philosophy: that architecture is constructed through the movement of the body and the senses.
Midline is a 1,000-capacity live music venue designed to provide a dramatic spatial setting while being open to performers and events that speak to different tastes or styles from one night to the next.
To create a cohesive experiential spatial identity within the large space, SINCLAIR COLLECTIVE designed remixable elements—linear LED lights, molded fiberglass grating panels (FRP), and translucent acrylic sheets—that combine to create different fields of light defined by spatial need, all animated by clubgoers’ movement. The result is a clear identity unique within Wynwood but still welcoming to all.
The linear LED lights are hung horizontally from the ceiling and vertically on the wall as a cohesive field to inform pacing and rhythm around the club. When layered with the FRP grid, the lights create glowing lines that animate when walking past. Behind the bar, a luminous sheet back-lights the bottles in a solid color field, mediated with a horizontal hole in FRP stretched across the bar shelf as an eye-level recess. Movement around the bar animates the light behind, as the angle of the FRP’s holes glow as visitors move past.
“We are interested in how people perceive space and the effects that color and light can have on the experience of an environment. Our design starts with a simple set of parts but activates the clubbers’ body through movement across layers of field-based light experiences. These add to the embodied experience of each night, no matter the music and no matter the crowd,”
The design challenge Midline presented was to create enough flexibility to accommodate the vastly different communities that make Miami feel like Miami without feeling anonymous. In January, alone, Midline hosts everything from gay circuit parties to RnB to an emo band. Our design strategy embraces that flexibility by remixing standard parts for a unique experience.”
