For the storm that shrieked through here close to midnight on Sunday was so powerful it sent one of the monument's eight massive concrete spheres rolling off its pedestal.
Opposite the civic center, in Unity Park, where a monument honors the seven victims of the 1999 tornado, one of eight huge concrete spheres was knocked off its pedestal, and an aluminum flagpole honoring victims of the attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, was bent to the ground from its roots.
From this visitor's perspective, the fixtures complement (though unrelated) nine concrete spheres covered with nine souvenir beach towels, dubbed Drywood on the floor in front of the lights wall.
In front of the building a simple concrete sculpture -- a sphere spinning atop a pyramid -- hints at Glencore's global reach.
These feats include hoisting logs overhead and lifting 300-pound spheres of concrete onto a chest-high platform.
It may be one of central Miami's most recognisable buildings, yet only a few people know what goes on inside the sturdy concrete block with massive spheres on its roof.
Clay, concrete and painted steel spheres dotted the landscape as though they had rolled down the hill in some prehistoric era, settling in gentle clumps.
You would think the government would be doing something about it, but Theresa May is seemingly too busy enough emitting her own gas over Brexit to take concrete action in other spheres such as this.
The defendant was guilty of "an effective and concrete intrusion into the sexual sphere of the victim", the court ruled.
