The Push Button House from architect/artist Adam Kalkin was originally displayed at Art Basel Miami in 2005.

The Push Button House is exactly that: it starts as a shipping container until a button is pushed, and it turns into a house.

Motorized walls unfold like a flower, revealing a fully functional house, complete with refined, understated furnishings

You can choose the design of your phone, your computer, and your car - so why not your condominium?

That’s what Chad Oppenheim, head of Miami-based Oppenheim Architecture & Design, asked himself while putting together his architectural thesis at Brown University.

The question became the impetus for his latest project: a condominium complex, set to be completed by the end of 2010, that takes a bottom-up, user-generated approach to constructing residential space.

In the market for a Bentley sports car, a Jean Paul Gaultier dress or a cell phone, but don’t feel like dealing with a pesky salesperson?

Literally at the touch of a button, visitors to the Mondrian South Beach can buy those items — as well as more prosaic hotel gift-shop staples like toothbrushes — from a new lobby vending machine called a Semi-Automatic.

South of Fifth and Lamborghini Miami join forces to create the ultimate luxury experience and the result is that only seven of the 28 South of Fifth residences remain to be sold.

If you want to purchase one of the these last seven ocean front units you will receive a Lamborghini Gallardo Spyder 2008, valued at 260,000 dollars.

Designed by Mari Balestrazzi, the Semi-Automatic is a vending machine designed for the Morgans Hotel Group.

The design deals with the idea of a hotel gift shop, but instead of selling souveniers like a gift shop, or soda and candy like a vending machine, it sells a variety of luxe items curated by Kim Walker, the hotel group’s creative director.

The unique products range from 24-karat gold handcuffs from Kiki de Montparnasse, luxury cars for rent (a Rolls Royce Silver Shadow or 2000 Bentley Azure convertible), Fred Flare heart sunglasses, a 14-karat gold necklace by Kiel Mead, and Atari classics for Playstation.

According to the New York Post, Shaquille O’Neal, one of the most dominant players in the history of NBA, is having some issues selling his home on Star Island on Miami Beach.

The Phoenix Suns center just is marketing the mansion for sale at $25 million, which is $10 million less than its highest asking price back in November 2007, when the deal fell through.