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Sagamore Hotel Building Giant Sandcastle for Art Basel

Where: 1671 Collins Ave. [map], Miami Beach, FL, United States, 33139

The Sagamore Hotel always knows how to ring in Art Basel. Last year, the hotel courted the nude art lover by unveiling Spencer Tunick's group nude photoshoot which was done at the hotel over the summer. This year, the show is a little more family-friendly. From the Miami Herald:

[A] massive sand sculpture to be created by Swiss artist Olaf Breuning on the beach behind the Sagamore Hotel....The untitled work, commissioned by Sagamore Hotel owners Cricket and Martin Taplin, will feature a huge bikini girl with a Paul Klee-inspired face.

Even better, Bruening has begun construction on the castle and the hotel's own website is hosting a live webcam of the construction (that's a picture from the webcam above.) Seriously, webcams and sand castles? Could there be anything more perfect?

If you swing by the Sagamore hotel in person, let us know how the castle is progressing. Just watch out for Naomi Campbell's boyfriend.