Miami Does Paris by artist Daniel Arsham is a mixed media sculpture made in 2006. It measures roughly 5 feet by 9.5 feet by 4.8 feet. The longest side is facing the viewer.This artwork is an example of modified architectural sculptures, creating fractured and imagined mixed media sculptures out of real architectural structures.The majority of the sculpture is an off-white color, reminiscent of marble, and it has four main components to it. On the bottom we have the base and on top of the base we have three separate staircases taking up equal space, diving the sculpture into thirds. Starting at the base, it has four steps that extend through the whole length of the base, the steps have curved edges and they also start and finish as a curve. On the left, on top of the base, there is a neoclassical staircase leaning and curving towards the left. This staircase has 9 steps and on each step, the tread (horizontal part) is a little farther out than the riser (vertical part). It has a black, heavily detailed, and ornate hand-railing on both sides; the designs are comprised of lots of curves, swirls, and scrolls. There is also more swirling black railing on the bottom left side, connecting the staircases’ hand-railing to the very first step on the base. Since it’s leaning towards the left, we see a part of the left-facing wall of the neoclassical staircase. Next to that staircase, in the middle of the sculpture, there is a modern staircase with two flights of stairs. This modern staircase is also mostly white but has a pattern on its side and underside, the pattern is similar to polka-dots and has muted colors (white, blue, orange). All of the steps in this staircase appear to be floating, they have a tread but no riser, so in some parts you can see right through the staircase into the background. The first flight starts from the back of the sculpture, (it’s not on the base), and sticks out, coming towards us. This first flight reaches the height of step # 4 from the neoclassical staircase and then reaches the landing (flat rectangular area), after the landing the second flight of stairs has 10 steps and it goes in the opposite direction, climbing away from the viewer. The hand railing can be found on both sides and is a simple white bar that follows the angle of the staircase, there are more evenly spaced, vertical, white bars under the handrailing acting as support. To the right of the modern staircase, we see the same exact neoclassical staircase as before with only one difference, instead of leaning towards the left, it’s leaning towards the right. Everything else is identical: the railing is black and swirly, there’s 9 rounded steps, and we see the right-facing side wall.