861-Foot Solar-Powered Brickell Tower Moves To Construction Permitting

A construction permit application for a 71-story tower in Brickell was just submitted to Miami’s Building Department.

The tower will become one of the tallest in Miami, at 861 feet above ground.

It will also be the world’s the first residential high-rise in the world partially powered by the sun, the developer says, with 500 photovoltaic-integrated windows.

According to the March 10 construction permit application, a total of 189 condos will be built, along with a six level parking garage.

Total hard construction cost is estimated at $144,319,176.

A demolition permit for an existing 10-story office building on the site was applied for in January and is in review.

John Moriarty is listed as the contractor on the new construction permit application.

The building is being designed by ACPV Architects led by Antonio Citterio and Patricia Viel, with architecture by Arquitectonica.

Ytech is the developer.

 


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Rocky.
6 months ago

I hope this gets built soon!

Name
6 months ago

Ground breaking this year 😉

Anon13
6 months ago

I hope so too, but driving by it would appear they are using the 4th floor of the existing building as a sales office, so we shall see

Anonymous
6 months ago

A welcome addition to the Brickell skyline!

Anonymous
6 months ago

Gorgeous building with new technology! This is going to be a leading development for Miami and the United States. Brickell is fortunate to be getting this addition.

Melo is sigma and Chad
6 months ago

Good bring on the age of more 700 footers and above in Miami.

Pi Space
6 months ago

This is actually my favorite building.

Anonymous
6 months ago

Mine too!

Paul
6 months ago

Wait, how is this building only $144M in hard construction cost? Does that seem low to anyone else?

BASED
6 months ago

Beautiful building, but wait till all the virtue signalers who think they are making so much green energy find out those same solar panels are built off the back of essentially slave labor and in many cases child labor in the Congo mining lithium and cobalt and breathing in toxins all day long creating life threatening disease, cancers and debilitating them for life. The hypocrisy of the environmentalist cult is mind numbing. DO. YOUR. RESEARCH. People, stop believing everything you are told like sheep.

Anonymous
6 months ago

….and you believe what you’re told WHY? Ask the Philippines how they like their oil spill ruining their beaches.

BASED
6 months ago

Easy, because multiple sources, both left and right report on it with video. VICE news, hard left leaning reports on it, as well as multiple different right leaning orgs. I didn’t realize I was now PRO oil spill because I am against child labor and forced slave labor of African nations, this is the type of non-sense people say. I’m NOT pro oil spill. I’m for nuclear energy, but fossil fuels have done way more good than bad. You are typing on a phone or laptop or desktop computer with parts made from fossil fuel energy. Your emergency medical and police responders that keep your city safe operate on fossil fuel, their plants that made those cars, fossil fuels. With your logic I should come to the conclusion that you are PRO SLAVE LABOR/CHILD LABOR/FORCED IMPOVERISHMENT OF POOR AFRICAN NATIONS.

Anonymous
6 months ago

^^You are typing on a phone or laptop made in China made with CHILD LABOR!!!! By your logic, if you can’t find an energy source with zero negative impacts whatsoever then just stick with fossil fuels. You will be banging sticks and stones together after fossil fuels run out and no renewable energy sources have been developed. Solar has LESS environmental impact than fossil fuels. FACT.

Anonymous
6 months ago

he keeps switching isp’s on a router made in China too to upvote his own posts

Anonymous
6 months ago

Solar will not be more than a fringe source of energy. Like wind, it is episodic, requires vast land areas to deploy, usually far from demand, and requires massive amounts of mineral resources (some toxic) to construct. Additionally, neither wind nor solar deployments are favorable for recycling, so they will be stuffing landfills until our political class wises up or is run out of office by angry citizens tired of skyrocketing energy prices. There are really only a few baseload energy sources: coal, nuclear, natural gas will be carrying the load for our lifetimes and generations to come.

Steve Nordquist
6 months ago

People are episodic too, though. If you have a nonglassed area on your roof, put a nice vast toxic mineral (glass so the panel isn’t ruined) up there and crank that ostrich fan…well maybe during a workout then.

Not Anonymous
6 months ago

Not to mention those same “child labor metals” are also used to make electronics like their beloved phone or laptop.

Anonymous
6 months ago

It’s not hard to believe what you see with your eyes.

The Philippines having an oil spill, does not justify slave labor in the Congo.

Les mines du Congo
6 months ago
Anonymous
6 months ago

Their beaches were already garbage dumps.

Melo is sigma and Chad
6 months ago

adding another reactor to turkey point would be the greeniest thing in South Florida.

Anonymous
6 months ago

RESEARCH shows solar power has far less environmental effects than fossil fuels—that’s FACT. Not you fiction about it being more harmful.

Anonymous
6 months ago

Feel free to reference your research for our edification. I would remind you that the “appeal to authority” is a logical fallacy. 😉 Regardless, solar power is not a substitute for a baseload technology. Also, if you think it’s just a matter of building enormous battery packs to store episodic energy for use at night or on still days, you truly don’t understand the environmental harm of those batteries and the infeasibility of mining lithium and getting poor children in the Congo to pan for cobalt at that scale.

Anonymous
6 months ago

Feel free to reference your research for our edification on how fossil fuels are less harmful. DO NOT site an oil producer’s website. We’ll wait….

Steve Nordquist
6 months ago

I want to upvote you but you keep throwing some batteries=cobalt errors and fossil fuel advocacy ones too. I mean, throw up that welding in oceans is hazardous and I’ll chew that humble pie.

Anonymous
6 months ago

Is that you ExxonMobil?

Anonymous
6 months ago

The majority of cobalt is NOT mined by child or slave labor. DRC mines are about 60-70 of world production. Only 20% of DRC mines are manual mines. Less than that use child or slave labor. Nice try.

Humantrafficing.org like you said DO YOUR RESEARCH

Bruno
6 months ago

Lucky kids.
I was broke without any money until I was 16.

Anonymous
6 months ago

It will be interesting to see what percentage of the building’s power usage is supplied by those windows. I’d bet low single digit during about six hours of the day. Nice marketing angle, but ultimately immaterial.

Anonymous
6 months ago

I somewhat agree, but it smakes sense to have solar panels on one of the tallest buildings in the area with direct sunlight most of the day. What doesn’t make sense is phasing out domestic fossil fuel production, rather an all-of-the-above strategy. Otherwise, yes you make the Chinese rich from blood mines which they own in Africa while they build coal power plants on a weekly basis and have no obligation to combat the so-called climate crisis. Only the countries that already have rules…

Steve Nordquist
6 months ago

Give China an even shake, it’s impossible to be educated but go bullying all the things/ignoring that humans won’t work so good at 2°C warming plus. Reeeealy hoping surface mining and open pond processing is done for…

Anonymous
6 months ago

Another beaut by Arquitectonica!

Name
6 months ago

Design is mostly by ACPV

Azarius
6 months ago

I thought this project would be much taller at the 1049 height

Glass is class
6 months ago

The pedestal art is bad, should be glass frontage

Anonymous
6 months ago

At least it’s not a cheesy mural like SLS Lux.

samo
6 months ago

notice how they don’t show the posterior………wonder why?

Anonymous
6 months ago

Because like most of “their” projects, the rear / west elevation will be another wall of windows. I am sure. Like all their projects in Edgewater.

Anonymous
6 months ago

*wall of lights

Anonomatopoeia
6 months ago

Absolutely stunning.

Anon
6 months ago

Never a west elevation So classic marketing is

Vincent
6 months ago

So if i understand correctly, that little sliver of land where Novecento is located is going to stay?

Anonymous
6 months ago

Yes.

Bruno
6 months ago

That isn’t a sliver, and it is not a part of this project.

Vincent
6 months ago

It is a sliver. And thanks for clarifying.

anon
6 months ago

sexy

Javanka
6 months ago

I’m going to use the sun to power my light bulb!

Anonymous
6 months ago

You can light up a lot these days with the sun. It’s free and keeps your electric bill lower. We will still rely on FPL for most things but it’s a nice savings for things people would ordinarily shut off.

Anonymous but Famous
6 months ago

The virtue of solar and wind power is that electricity is not made to run thru millions of miles of wire, much of it 60 or 80 years old, and they leak like hell. Cost to replace these: trillions of dollars. Not to mention the electricity necessary to provide the impulse needed to send it on its way. Not to mention the electricity purposely dumped on the way so that our toasters don’t explode…… First, we need fusion energy. Then we need to apply the concept to miniature plants (say about the size of a 12- unit apartment bldg, 2 floors high) which would then be sited close to the point of use…… Y’all thought the conundrum was easy, didn’t you?

Steve Nordquist
6 months ago

I mean, I would say to Mint Mobile another grid that’s not FPL, but Mint seems to be dealt off to Verizon or T-Mobile, antithetical as it sounds. It’s an interesting looking build and I can’t see the photovoltaics ; all glass-integrated, no texture?

Anonymous
6 months ago

In the beginning I thought this was going to be flip on the lot , I was wrong

Bruno
6 months ago

Yeah, and when you said, “of course it isnt.”

Melo, the true giga chad
6 months ago

beautiful tower, terrible podium. Is it that hard to throw some units in the front of the podium? so much for human scale…

Professional Engineer
6 months ago

I see 6 parking podiums in just that first picture. These concrete boxes are single handedly ruining the city and making it cold, lifeless, and unwalkable.

Anonymous
6 months ago

Oh god… Cry somewhere else. The city seems to be doing fine.

Anonymous
6 months ago

I actually like the stone podium. Beautiful contrast with the glass.

Melo, the true giga chad
6 months ago

exactly! walking by these podiums gives some off a dystopian feel and offer nothing to look at

Anonymous
6 months ago

They’re not going anywhere anytime soon.

Anon
6 months ago

What about the ground and second floor level retail? Who is looking up at the bottom of a residential balcony on the second floor…

Anon
6 months ago

No retail…

Anonymous
6 months ago

It’s a bookend in a transition zone to residential. If it were in the core it would break up the continuity, but I think this is fine here.

Professional Engineer
6 months ago

can you please explain this continuity thing?

Steve Nordquist
6 months ago

Sell treatments. Please.

Name
6 months ago

Get rid of the scales on the sides and make it smooth please.

Anonymous
6 months ago

Go back to architecture school.