Miami’s First Ever Supertall Now Under Construction After Selling Over $1B In Condos

A groundbreaking ceremony was held last week for the Waldorf Astoria Hotel & Residences Miami, which will become the first ever supertall in the city.

The Waldorf will rise 100 stories and 1,049 feet, making it the first in Miami to reach supertall height and the tallest residential building south of New York City.

The project will include 360 condos, 205 hotel rooms and suites, meeting, ballroom, restaurant, amenity, and other uses.

Condos in the tower are now 87% sold, after sales launched in the spring of 2021. That represents over $1b in sales, the developers said in a press release.

Foundation work has already been underway for some time and will take about 10 months to complete. Opening of the tower is expected in four and a half years.

PMG along with partners Greybrook, Mohari Hospitality, and S2 Development are the developers.

Sieger Suarez Architects in collaboration with Carlos Ott designed the tower.

 

 

 

 

 

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Anon
4 months ago

The beginning of America’s new Megacity

Vincent
4 months ago

This will forever change Miami. God bless this city. More supertalls to come!!!

Anonymous
4 months ago

I hope the SkyRise will get picked up by another developer because we do need an observation tower.

Drac
4 months ago

Wake up!.. you’re dreaming again.

Anonymous
4 months ago

I’m sure you said the same about Okan when it was on hold

Drac
4 months ago

There’s one thing you’re forgetting my friend and that is, Berkowitz is not behind the Okan tower.

Anonymous
4 months ago

Okan has more to it than a gimmicky observation tower that looks like a toenail clipper.

Style Exec
4 months ago

Agree, I was so excited about the SkyRise. It was beautifully designed and loved the idea of having multiple observation decks and amusement experiences built into the design. Miami needs a landmark observation tower like every major international city.

Anonymous
4 months ago

Love the SkyRise, with its modern architecture and multiple observation decks and entertainment experiences. It would be great to see a landmark non-residential observation tower like this in the future.

Myamy
4 months ago

I loved the SkyRise design but it looks like people want another boring looking antenna tower or needle structure… I’m fine with any design at this point, just build an observation deck! Miami needs one desperately.

Miami Winning
4 months ago

Game changer for Miami.

Rocky!
4 months ago

It’s nice to see the renderings never changed or the height of this project didn’t change either! We need more projects like this!!

Anonymous
4 months ago

The rendering did change. It was nicer in the 2019 rendering. See comment below.

Anonymous
4 months ago
Anonymous
4 months ago

The first supertall of few more to come.

Anonymous
4 months ago

Hopefully many more will follow!!

Anonymous
4 months ago

Well paint my taint, this is really happening.

Style Exec
4 months ago

Am I the only one that finds the design unsettling? I am very proud of Miami and the great people developing the City. However, when towers reach this height, I prefer when they have more sleek lines that taper up to the sky or have rounded edges at the top. The off-center cube on the top makes me anxious looking at it, like kid’s building blocks. I wish they would revise the top cube to be entered, rotate it 45 degrees to be a vertical plane, and/or have a rounded sail-like silhouette to be cohesive with Miami’s aesthetic. Maybe it will look more balanced in person…

Anonymous
4 months ago

Does anyone else find the design unnerving? I am proud of Miami, but I like super talls with sleek lines that taper up to the sky, like in Dubai, or with rounded edges. The off-center cube on top seems imbalanced. I wish they would revise the top elevation to be centered, tapered or have a round sail-like silhouette. Maybe it will look more balanced when erected…

Anonymous
4 months ago

Maybe if the top block was twisted on a 45 degree angle it would capture the “transcendence” design inspiration, or adjust the vertical planes to be slightly angled and not so cube like. There’s something imbalanced with the rendering.

Anonymous
4 months ago

The design gives me the runs. Sorry WA cheerleaders, and yes I too am glad to see ANY supertall finally being built here, but honestly this design sucks.

Anonymous
4 months ago

Maybe I’m biased because I’m always crunched over at my desk. The silhouette kind of looks like a human standing up and the top block is a head. It just needs a chiropractor to get the neck pushed back right up lol

Visual Expert
4 months ago

This earlier rendering of 300 Biscayne, in the link below, show a more aesthetically pleasing design. It had staggered blocks, but they were closer together, especially the top one. It would look much nicer in the skyline that way, and be less jarring.

The composition of the newer renderings looks imbalanced, which objectively makes it less pleasing to the eye. Hope they stay true to the original design.

https://therealdeal.com/miami/2019/05/28/here-are-the-tallest-projects-proposed-in-miami/

Anonymous
4 months ago

Also the earlier rending had diagonal interesting lines which made it look more modern and Miami-like and less like a dated super tall. Hope they integrate that too.

Anonymous
4 months ago

Great news. Can’t wait to see it go up!!!

Kitty W.
4 months ago

Stacked boxes. Groundbreaking.

Se me paró
4 months ago

https://www.vanceva.com/gallery/marina-twin-towers
Here’s the lego version in Doha

Visual expert
4 months ago

This Doha design is MUCH better than the proposed Miami design because it’s visually balanaced. Even though the cubes are staggered, they are done so intentionally and lead up in a soothing cohesive direction. The Waldorf design looks like they tried to do this but the result is disconnected and jarring, especially because of the top block being so far South – they should push the top block inward to avoid a design fail that can be seen from miles and miles away.

Visual expert
4 months ago

This would be the most cost-effective adjustment without changing much structural design. We can assume it will stand engineering wise since it’s more in line with the tower.

Anonymous
4 months ago

This is ugly… looks like something planned by university students using a tinker toy set.
The Miami version is much cleaner, nicer, and more sophisticated. Sorry to disagree.

Anonymous
4 months ago

Wonder if you’ll be able to see the west coast. Definitely Bimini to the east.

Sub Tropics
4 months ago

High Point to High Point viewing is a lot more feasible than seeing Horizons more than 100 miles away.

Govsobe
4 months ago

Wouldn’t be caught dead on a high foor like that.

eer
4 months ago

about damn time

Anonymous
4 months ago

Oh look, it’s all the people who won’t be doing any of the construction taking a photo in front of shovels lol, such a stupid ceremony every time they do this nonsense

Anonymous
4 months ago

I am sorry, Skyrise is UGLY! looks like a giant paperclip or tongue. We need something but not that! please do not resurrect that eye soar…

Fern
4 months ago

Ah yes, 1 Minecraft Ave

Dabney
4 months ago

Is 1,000 feet + considered supernal?

Rocky!
4 months ago

Supertall.

Anonymous
4 months ago

Of course not, but it is considered a supertall.

Antennae
4 months ago

It’s actually 300 meters approximately 984 feet. So yes, 1000 ft is a supertall

Mad Dash
4 months ago

And a megatall is 600 meters and there are only 3 completed in the world. But none in the U.S.

Mad Dash
4 months ago

Meant to say 600 meters and higher: One in Dubai; the 2717 ft. Burj Khalifa; the 2,073 ft Shanghai Tower, and the third is 1972 ft. Makka Royal Clock Tower in Mecca, Saudi Arabia

Anonymous
4 months ago

It’s about the same height as the Chrysler building in NYC

Anonymous
4 months ago

Yes.

Bye bye Miami
4 months ago

Wow Miami is really not going to be affordable for a lot of people. It’s crazy people born and raised in Miami are going to have to move out because of these crazy high-rise buildings