Naples High-Rise Study - Naples, FL
Photographed 2017
Photographed 2017
This series focuses on the rooflines, forms, and façades of residential high-rises along Florida’s southwest coast, most constructed during the 1990s and early 2000s amid a wave of development that reshaped the identity of Naples. These buildings, while architecturally generic on the surface, reveal a different kind of beauty when framed carefully: patterns of light and shadow, repetition, and the quiet sculptural quality of forms meeting the bright Florida sky.
Location: Naples, Florida
Era of Construction: Primarily 1990s–2000s
Architects: Various (unconfirmed)
Focus: Rooflines, façade details, and elevation studies
Themes: Coastal development, abstraction, repetition, evolving architectural identity
What began as an observational walk became a visual study in scale and surface, an unromantic but revealing portrait of condo living in post-boom Florida, as the city evolved from a town of low-slung ramblers into one defined by vertical living and investment-driven growth.
© 2017 JC Buck
