++THIS THREAD IS UNDER CONSTRUCTION NOW++



Miami / Florida

Story

I started this thread over a year ago. Much happened last year and this year, so it's time for a major update. A lot of projects are finished already as you can see in QuantumX's great updates. I will add a complete list of recently completed projects in Miami. Ofcourse there is coming a new list of Construction in Miami, and I'll add some interesting proposals.

Information about Miami

Population: 425.000
Metro: 5.400.000
Tallest tower: Four Seasons Hotel and Tower, 240m.
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Main Construction Area's

- Miami Brickell
- Miami North Bay Village
- Miami Downtown
- Miami Sunny Isles Beach
- Miami South
- Miami North
- Miami Coral Gables
- Miami Coconut Grove { Miami Midtown }
- Miami Biscayne Bay



Height Ristriction Map

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Courtesy of QuantumX



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Highrise List

[B]Miami's 10 tallest as of now:

- Met 3 | 252m | 74fl | Under Construction
- Four Seasons | 240m | 64fl | Completed (2003)
- Wachovia Financial Center | 233m | 55fl | Completed (1984)
- The Capital At Brickell | 230m | 52fl | Under Construction
- 900 Biscayne Bay | 217m | 65fl | Completed (2008)
- Marquis | 207m | 63fl | Completed (2008)
- The Capital At Brickell Phase 2 | 198m | 56fl | Under Construction
- Met 2 | 197m | 46fl | Under Construction
- Mint at Riverfront | 192m | 55fl | Completed (2009)
- Infinity at Brickell | 192m | 52fl | Completed (2008)

For more towers/lists and stats go here (http://www.emporis.com/en/wm/ci/bu/sk/li/?id=101321&bt=2&ht=2&sro=20).

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Under Construction

Met 3 | Metropolitan Financial Center Miami

Height: 252m
Floors: 74


Met 3 will be the tallest building Miami adding its unique signature to the spledind sklyline. At 74 stories high, this architectual wonder will enjoy 360 degree views of the enire Miami Metro area. It is with great pleasure that we announce the presales for Met 3.

Metropolitan Miami is redefining downtown. The heart of any great city is its downtown area, and Metropolitan Miami is redefining downtown. Metropolitan Miami is the nucleus of a tropical lifestyle where local meets international, all with an edgy, urban vibe. It's a place where an interesting, diverse crowd of people will assemble for entertainment, dining, the arts, culture, shopping, sports, socializing or just haning out.

A unique opportunity is available now to register for the first release of units and prices. 88 tower units are released for our presale.

Interest in the entire Metropolitan Miami project has been extremely high. Met 1 is now just over 90% sold out and construction is underway. Met 3 will house Whole Foods as the retail anchor at the ground level of the building with a 45,000 sq. ft. store.

Metropolitan Miami is flanked on the south side by the future site of the Dupont Towers, and the Miami River and on the east side by One Miami and Biscayne and the rest of Miami's great neighborhoods are only moments away and with an ample road system that leads everywhere.


Source (http://miamirealestatetrends.com/pages/metropolitan3.aspx)

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Capital At Brickell

Height: 230m ( Phase1 ) 198m ( Phase2 )
Floors: 56 and 52

Capital At Brickell contents 2 towers. The North tower (198m) and the South tower (230m). A lot of information can be found on their official website (http://www.capitalatbrickell.com), including breaking ground. The construction is scheduled to be finished in 2010.

This Fullerton-Diaz designed project from Cabi Developers features two towers which are quite reminiscient of the Empire State Building in Manhattan! Capital at Brickell is situated at the southern end of the Brickell Financial district overlooking Biscayne Bay and Simpson Park and is a mixed use project with office, retail and residential condos and lofts.


Source (http://www.miamicondolifestyle.com/capital-at-brickell-condos.php)

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Met 2

Height: 197m
Floors: 47

MDM Development Group has joined forces with another giant in the industry, Metlife, to develop Met 2.

Met 2 will feature:

- 700.000 square feet of Class A office space in a 47 story tower
- A 42 story Marquis tower -- JW Mariott Hotel with 376 guestrooms

The towers will rise from a 14 story podium which contains 18.000 square feet of column-free ballroom and meeting space, ground level retail shops, a restaurant and lounge, and a 1500 space parking garage.

Source (http://www.metropolitanmiami.com/home.html)

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1450 Brickell

Height: 165m
Floors: 35

1450 Brickell, is an all-office skyscraper under construction in Miami, Florida. When complete, it will be 540 feet (165 m) tall with 40 floors. It is adjacent to One Broadway in Downtown Miami's southern Brickell Financial District. The building is located on the corner of Brickell Avenue and Broadway. The building is expected to be complete sometime in 2009. The architect is Nichols, Brosch, Wurst, Wolfe & Associates, Inc. The building contains more than 580,000 square feet of office space. The project is one of several new office buildings to open in Downtown Miami.

Source (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Park_Place_at_Brickell)

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Recently Completed

900 Biscayne Bay

Height: 217m
Floors: 65
Completion: Q2 2008

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Marquis

Height: 207m
Floors: 67
Completion: Q1 2009

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Mint At Riverfront

Height: 192m
Floors: 55
Completion: Q1 2009

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Paramount Bay

Height: 149m
Floors: ?
Completion: 2009

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Icon Brickell

Height: 179m x 2 & 142m
Floors: 58 x 2 and 46
Completion: 2008

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Proposed/Approved


Coming soon...



























Sources & Websites

Almost all construction/completion pics are in courtesy of QuantumX (http://www.skyscrapercity.com/member.php?u=189576).
Go here (http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=751506) to visit his amazing urban showcase thread about Miami.

Websites:

MiamiCondoLifestyle (http://www.miamicondolifestyle.com)
MiamiCondoInvestments (http://www.miamicondoinvestments.com)
Emporis (http://www.emporis.com)

:cheers:

you are missing
Met 3&2
Brickell financial centre I&II
park place II

Florida is Florida.Great place,unfortunately it`s too far from Europe

STUNNING!!!!!!!

^^yeah, it is very stunning. unfortunately, miami is going through a situation where they have too many condos....

great projects

Need some help here with the projects.. I think there are some new projects launched :) QuantumX will help with the updates :)

Building Summary

Community: South Beach
Architect: Revuelta, Vega,Leon
Views: Oceanfront
Completion Date: 2010, Summer
Bedrooms: 1, 2 & 3
Residence Size: 950-2000
Total Residences: 90
Number of Stories: 15,17,21
Price Range: $1,000,000 - $16,000,000

Ritz-Carlton Residences Condos - South Beach Oceanfront Condos
The Residences at The Ritz-Carlton are set at the site of the former SEVILLE HOTEL in South Beach, and will be made up of three towers:

Tower 1 - A complete restoration of the legendary SEVILLE, a stunning example of MiMo architecture. 15 stories - The first four floors are Ritz-Carlton Club fractionals. The 5th floor and higher are condo apartments

Tower 2 - A new 17-story All glass North tower with just three units per floor, or all units combinable into one residence

Tower 3 - A new cylindrical 21-story South tower. Each residence is a half-sphere with approximately 2000 sf of living space. Any two units may be combined to create a complete spherical living space (4000sf).

Full, luxurious apartment condos - not a hotel!

Features:

- Oceanfront location
- Dedicated elevators
- Spa with multiple treatment rooms including one for couples
- Steam and sauna for men and women
- State-of-the-art fitness center
- Signature five star restaurant
- Infinity-edged heated pools
- 16 furnished cabanas

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Miami needs some more attention! :)

^^yeah, it is very stunning. unfortunately, miami is going through a situation where they have too many condos....


Are you serious? Stunning?
Miami is a plastic shithole.
I'm sorry.And yes,i've been there.

Need some help here with the projects.. I think there are some new projects launched :) QuantumX will help with the updates :)

I can update projects with recent pictures, but there are not many new projects being launched these days.

^^yeah, it is very stunning. unfortunately, miami is going through a situation where they have too many condos....


And that is why we are here!

Are you serious? Stunning?
Miami is a plastic shithole.
I'm sorry.And yes,i've been there.

A plastic shithole? :stupid:

Are you serious? Stunning?
Miami is a plastic shithole.
I'm sorry.And yes,i've been there.

But the city is changing, and I choose to stay and be part of a positive change rather than running somewhere else and dealing with a different set of problems instead of the ones I'm familiar with here in Miami.

Although I'm amazed at some of these designs, particularly the one I saw marked as "APPROVED" I keep dreading a repeat of the 1755 tsunami.

^^Meaning height restriction map.
This map shows where in Downtown Miami and in Midtown Miami very tall buildings can be built. We can also use it as a reference for pointing out where certain projects are located in the city in relation to each other. For instance, Brickell Avenue begins south of the Miami River and everything with Brickell in the project name will be in this location. Brickell Avenue is Miami's wall street and thus it is called the Brickell Financial District.

Immediately north of the Miami River and extending just beyond the MacArthur Causeway (I-395 or 441) is our Central Business District (CBD). The MacArthur Causeway connects Downtown Miami to South Beach with the four giant condos in a row along Biscayne Blvd that we now refer to as the Biscayne Wall being immediately south of the MacArthur Causeway. The drive from South Beach into Downtown Miami has become very dramatic as you now drive through a skyscraper canyon.

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^^That's west of South Miami Avenue, but we can't edt this field.

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^^ These shots of Icon Brickell also include some shots of Epic because they are directly across the Miami River from each other.

The Marquis is actually at 1100 Biscayne Blvd and the MacArthur Causeway. It is listed at 679 feet tall, but some sources say the building actually reached 700 feet. Approaching it from South Beach on the MacArthur Causeway is very dramatic.

Paramount Park at 756 feet tall is planned for 700 Biscayne Blvd by the same developers of Paramount Bay at Edegwater Square. Plans are to start Paramount Park as soon as Paramount Bay is finished.

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From behind with Ten Museum Park on the right.
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Emporis lists this building at 496 feet while the World Almanac and the Miami Herald lists it at 562 feet (building number 66 in this Miami Herald interactive diagram below). I believe 562 feet is probably the actual height of the building and is the farther north that the Miami skyline current extends with buildings over 500 feet tall.

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^^Everglades on the Bay as photographed by QuantumX.

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Miami looks fantastic!

Miami looks fantastic!

Thanks! :)

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I didn't know Mint was that tall.

I didn't know Mint was that tall.

I am not sure where Mint topped out, but many people agree that it fell short of its original 631 feet height specification. It was supposed to be taller than Bank of America which is 625 feet, but it does not look that tall.

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They should have done 500 as one tall tower.

They should have done 500 as one tall tower.

I certainly would have preferred it be one taller tower than it is, but I also feel that this is a design that begs to be taller. It was a waste of the design to not make this building over 150m.

Thanks for posting the map QuantumX! I also saw that there is some progress on the bayfrontplazat tower (320m) :D

Thanks for posting the map QuantumX! I also saw that there is some progress on the bayfrontplazat tower (320m) :D

It is amazing! We have powerful developers still moving forward even in this economic climate!:):cheers:

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As of now you can see that I'm reorganising this thread. It defenitely needs a make-over because a lot of projects are finished last year. Im trying to get this ready in a few days but I have exams as well, which are more important to me at the moment.

Cheers :cheers:

whats going on with this MIApolis?


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looks like simply a dream for anyone to think they will get past codes for something like this in dade county

I haven't been to Miami like 4 years and It looks so changed

Matching Architecture to the Art in a New Miami Museum

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By ROBIN POGREBIN
November 18, 2009
nytimes.com (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/24/arts/design/24mam.html?ref=design)

Why is it so hard to design a great contemporary-art museum?

This question has been bothering art lovers for a while. One institution after another has embarked on vast new building projects over the last decade, and in nearly every case the museum and its architects struggled to figure out the right balance between architectural expression and the need to showcase art. Yet after all this time and all those buildings, the question is still being asked.

No architects have been more deeply or visibly embroiled in this struggle than the Swiss team of Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron. Since the 2001 opening of their Tate Modern — a building that instantly became the emblem of London’s rise as an art world capital — they have designed more than half a dozen art museums, each one a provocative reworking of the conventional formula.

Much of this work paid off. Their Schaulager in Basel, Switzerland, a mixture of galleries and art storage spaces that opened in 2003, is considered by many to be one of the most appealingly intimate places to look at art built in recent memory. But other designs, like the 2005 expansion of the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, got decidedly mixed reviews in the art world, with some critics arguing that too much of the architects’ personalities had seeped into the galleries. And in retrospect the Tate Modern, with its huge public spaces and huger crowds, may function better as a spectacle than an art space.

The team’s recently unveiled design for the Miami Art Museum is likely to ignite the debate all over again. Some architects no doubt will snipe that it looks too safe, an insult in design circles, as if Mr. Herzog and Mr. de Meuron were inspired by a fear of inciting yet more art world ire. On a breathtaking site overlooking Biscayne Bay, its boxy exterior, surrounded by slim 50-foot columns and capped by a vast flat roof, it could even be momentarily confused with 1960s-era performing arts developments like the Kennedy Center.

But the design for the Miami Art Museum is not a regurgitation of outmoded historical forms. Instead it breaks those forms apart and then pieces them back together to create something wholly new. It’s as if the architects had stepped back to contemplate the long arc of museum designs — including their own — before moving forward again along the evolutionary chain.

The $130 million building project has been overseen by Terry Riley, a former head of the Museum of Modern Art’s department of architecture and design who helped plan that museum’s expansion, and who was the Miami museum’s director until his resignation last month. (Mr. Riley is returning to his architectural practice, but he will continue to lead the Miami project as a consultant. Financing comes largely from a $100 million local bond issue. (The museum is still raising money for an endowment to help pay for operating expenses and acquisitions.)

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The museum is to face Biscayne Bay to the east and a vast public park, scheduled to begin construction next year, to the south. It is intended to be part of a cultural development that also includes a planned Science Museum by Grimshaw Architects.

Mr. Herzog and Mr. de Meuron’s design has strong connections to Classical and modern precedents. It is part of a lineage that reaches back past postwar performing arts centers to Mies van der Rohe’s New National Gallery and Karl Friedrich Schinkel’s neo-Classical Altes Museum, all the way to the Parthenon.

The architects reinforce the sense of grandeur by placing their building up on a concrete platform, as if to stress art’s elevated status. A grand staircase — nearly the entire 180-foot width of the platform — connects it to the waterfront: something like the grand staircase in front of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, but with a better view. A smaller stair connects to the park.

The first sign that something unexpected is going on here is a surprising feeling of weightlessness. The base, which would typically be a heavy solid platform, is conceived as a thin concrete slab that seems to hover several feet above the ground. Resting on top of it, the lobby, restaurant, auditorium and galleries are broken down into a cluster of boxlike forms, some of them weighing down the core of the composition; others cantilevering out over the deck.

Seen from a distance the museum will look like it is levitating, the various parts about to float off in different directions. Only the vast trellislike roof — and the columns that support it — seems to hold everything in place. Gardens and light wells are set into the platform deck. Hanging gardens, some as long as 40 feet, are suspended from the roof, giving the impression that the building is being swallowed up by its natural surroundings. (The scene might bring to mind a post-apocalyptic science fiction fantasy.)

The idea is to maintain art’s place on the pedestal of high culture while allowing for a more mixed experience. Yet the instability of some of the forms also suggests a more ambivalent view of art’s place in the world — one that acknowledges that for more than a century that pedestal has been increasingly wobbly as the boundaries between art, fashion and fame have blurred. [more at nytimes.com (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/24/arts/design/24mam.html?pagewanted=2&ref=design)]

Any news on any other Miami projects or construction? Sad to see so few projects are posted here, even though MIA has the country's third biggest skyline and has experienced a construction boom these past years!!!

As far as I know all the projects posted in this thread are completed or on hold. After 2007 the construction boom kinda stopped. Feel free to add any new projects if you know where to find them on the internet.