New Renderings Of Legacy Miami Worldcenter, With Soaring Spire On Top

Developers building the Legacy Miami Worldcenter tower recently submitted revised renderings after acquiring more land for the project.

The newly acquired parcel created an opportunity to expand the medical office component, according to a letter from the developers.

Legacy will have some of the most unique, high-end design elements in Miami, with a sleek, art-deco feel, the developer wrote in a letter attached to the application filing.

“The pinnacle of the Project is the soaring spire feature, that will certainly become a focal point on the downtown skyline,” the developer said.

Elevations attached to the application show the spire rising around 60 feet at the top of the tower.

The ground floor includes hotel and condominium lobby areas, retail, dining, and an
exciting pedestrian hardscape program.

The second level houses a 7,500 square foot shul, which will serve the religious needs of the surrounding community.

The remainder of the building includes a 218 key hotel, a 308-unit residential condominium, and several levels of office space that will house a premier medical facility.

The Project includes a full suite of wellness amenities, multiple swimming pools, hotel ballrooms, and sky lounge.

Miami’s UDRB voted unanimously on April 19 to recommend approval for the proposed design changes. The project previously received approval in 2021 prior to the expansion, and is already under vertical construction.

A live view camera showing construction is available here.

Kobi Karp is the architect.

 

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Anonymous
6 months ago

Too bad it isn’t taller.

Born in miami
6 months ago

Perfect size

Anonymous
6 months ago

Too bad it’s not on Biscayne Blvd.

Anonymous
6 months ago

This is better than biscayne

Name*
6 months ago

Can Miami City do something about the homeless camp that is growing at 3rd and and 8th. The lady is installing lights and hanging laundry…

Name*
6 months ago

It’s an embarrassment coming into Brickell and downrown

ray
6 months ago

This building with its retro-modern spire, OKAN and Waldorf will forever change the look of the CBD, from an OK skyline, to having more of a big city feel. They will stand out amongst the rather bland boxes that have been built over the last few years. Same thing will happen to Brickell after One Brickell City Center and the solar powered building get built. In Edgewater, the new buildings announced
should change dramatically the skyline identity of that neighborhood. Hopefully, the street level will be improved once they are. Such a mixed bag now.

Anonymous
6 months ago

Worldcenter is doing a great job with the larger sidewalks and shading trees. Walking in Brickell sucks, they should enlarge the sidewalks and reduce traffic

Anonymous
6 months ago

“walking in Brickell sucks”, “Driving in Brickell sucks”—-you guys want all the world’s conveniences at your doorstep but you don’t want all the city hustle and bustle that it entails. There is no “Weston meets Manhahttan” out there. Can’t have it both ways.

Anon
6 months ago

My friend you need to visit some other cities

Anonymous
6 months ago

Smart/creative city planning in the early stages of large-scale development should indeed allow us to have it “both ways.” We’re not talking rocket science … just a little foresight.

Sven
6 months ago

Only the very weakest of men are complaining about sidewalks. Most people who live and work in Brickell are attracted high salaries, low crime, exemplary food options, shopping options, banking options, financial services, access to transportation, waterfront access, and a plethora of other high quality of life issues.

It SHOULD go without saying that there is smart/creative planning in the early stages of large-scale development. Smart people, smart developers, and smart planners are all involved.

It is a matter of opinion whether the sidewalks are good enough for certain people. The overwhelming majority of people are perfectly fine with the walkability of the Brickell neighborhood. It is reflected in the growing population, thriving businesses, and the walk scores.

Anonymous
6 months ago

There are women investing and designing buildings and on the boards too, bro.

Anonymous
6 months ago

Get your head out of your ass, bro. The restaurant, crime and pedestrian experiences could all be improved, among other things. You moved from New York, congratulations! Just because you’re happy here doesn’t mean your new home is perfect. It’s far from it.

Dip
6 months ago

As someone who’s from here, I like it the way it is, stop saying you’re improving it when you’re also from nyc.

Dip
6 months ago

There is a negative group on this website that constantly bashes brickell and Miami, and touts east little Havana as the Mecca of the city for its two and three story buildings, constantly complains about walkability, and adds literally nothing to the conversation but over baked nyc ideas of how a city should be. Do not take it personally, they have issues.

Mary
6 months ago

Weston meets Manhahttan. Weston is overcrowded don’t come.

Name*
6 months ago

Nobody in Brickell believes this. It’s just downtown MWC PR campaign to try to capitalize on the success of neighboring Brickell. Brickell is best walkable neighborhood and driving is so easy without all the traffic of the 395 and Biscayne mega highway.

Dip
6 months ago

The only guy with half a brain gets -17 likes. Lol, the people on this site are penny wise dollar foolish.

Anonymous
6 months ago

Don’t forget extending Metromover around every block with corresponding stops outside your elevator, fatso.

Anonymous
6 months ago

There’s a greater need for sidewalks for the masses in downtown.
Wait till this block looks like Time Square. It will be busy, don’t worry!

Sven
6 months ago

No one walks in Brickell anymore…it’s too crowded.

Anonymous
6 months ago

Lol is this a joke? Brickell is the most walkable neighborhood and improvements should be made to beautify and add cross walks for the population boom but it’s fantastic.

Market Urbanist
6 months ago

Yes, it’s a Yogi Berra joke.

Anonymous
6 months ago

It’s Park West, not the CBD. Still, hopefully it’s only the start.

Anonymous
6 months ago

The DDA nixed the term “park west” it’s now called the Arts and Entertainment District and CBD

Anon
6 months ago

The boxes suck! Stop building then.

Zz01
6 months ago

What is the big deal with people clamoring for spires? I don’t hate them, just trying to understand the desire for them.

Anonymous
6 months ago

Because we have been around the world and seen good architecture is more than just mix matching window placement. There needs to be some shape overall!

Zz01
6 months ago

Adding a spire on an ugly building is still an ugly building. So clamoring for spires confuses me instead of just generally asking for better architecture.

Alpina
6 months ago

It looks short and chubby, it seems to me they change the height

MMn
6 months ago

they did, it has shrunk by ~60ft

Alpina
6 months ago

I wonder if the market is a bit saturated…anyone knows the reason??

Downtown Vagabond
6 months ago

I think the joke went over your head…

Yet Another Anonymous
6 months ago

Did they lower it from 700 to 649 ft?

Anon
6 months ago

I love this building. It makes sense that the tenant does not want the art deco screening blocking their view to the outside, so I understand why it was moved. Really excited to see this gem go up!

Anonymous
6 months ago

“the religious needs of the surrounding
community”?!? 😂

LoL
6 months ago

People will go to it when they leave E11even to ask for redemption!

Father Krave
6 months ago

Church of Krave!!!

Anonymous
6 months ago

It’s a synagogue

Anonymous
6 months ago

For the nightclub owners.

Market Urbanist
6 months ago

Well done.

Anonymous
6 months ago

Tax free baby!!

Cover the Podiums
6 months ago

Finally a developer that cares about how the top of the buildings look

Anonymous
6 months ago

It’s all about the tops and the curves

Anonymous
6 months ago

Soaring spire… what are they talking about lol

Anonimato
6 months ago

Mini spire!

MMN
6 months ago

A shell of its former self.

Anonymous
6 months ago

It looks too short and is that parking lot remaining as such?

Born in miami
6 months ago

It’s perfect and beautiful

Anonymous
6 months ago

I hope the sky lounge will be open to public. Will this be the first true infinity pool in Miami?

peej
6 months ago

It won’t be at all, you can tell based on the new renderings. The infinity pool was marketing fluff the entire time, just like the upper pool @ Zaha Hadid’s 1000 Museum.

shewearsnylons
6 months ago

ELI5: The Podiums, are they purely to satisfy our backward parking requirements? High rises in other cities don’t have block-sized podiums. They seem like a massive waste of space.

Cover the Podiums
6 months ago

this actually looks good though because they’re somewhat hidden and keeps other buildings from getting built, which allows for sunlight to seep through and keeps things human scale

Anonymous
6 months ago

B-but, we still need Skyyyriiiiiiiiiise!

Anonymous
6 months ago

Absolutely!!!!

Anonymous
6 months ago

Kudos to the developer and architects for putting design ahead of profits.

Anonymous
6 months ago

This is a great building. Not the everyday boxes we get here.

*Name
6 months ago

Love this project. Construction is progressing pretty quickly too. If you go to their website, they have a live view camera.

Anonymous
6 months ago

The 2nd floor will be the Sky Fairy Suite.

Anonymous
6 months ago

It looked longer before, and rounder at the tip, no? Now its just kinda beer cannish. At least thats how I see it.

Anonimato
6 months ago

The Miami skyline finally gets a spire ( albeit a mini spire ) on a pudgy skyscraper on top of an overwhelming asymmetrical podium. Still, this building is much better than most of the boring flat top buildings making up the Miami skyline.

Alpina
6 months ago

Great looking podium, i love they addressed the pedestrian experience instead of painting a mural and considering it to be art…arquitectonica has abused to say the least with the use of poor ‘treatments’. Podiums are as important as what they put on top…

Mike Brady
6 months ago

This does not look anywhere as dramatic as the original renderings. This structure has been hit with some sort of “bland” ray gun which has toned it down quite a bit.

calivalle
6 months ago

Awesome architecture a really beautiful design..

Ana
6 months ago

Tall buildings make a city great… upzone more of the city in little Havana instead of keeping the prosperity only east of 95

Anon
6 months ago

They should build up riverside / east little Havana with more luxury development around the river.

Dip
6 months ago

But taller than what they have now. That area needs commercial and 6/8 floor buildings

Yet Another Anonymous
6 months ago

Just like Capital at Brickell, it’s not tall enough or close enough to the water, or the west, to be very visible from most angles.

Anonymous but Famous
6 months ago

At last- a non- Mies- erable building.

Anonymous but Famous
6 months ago

Third time l try to get through to the editors…. Every time there’s a like address in Homestead 33030, that’s what you tag it as.

Anonymous
6 months ago

Miami Soaring.

Jeremey Howlett
6 months ago

It would probably be a smart idea to start converting an older tower in Miami into a pod style hotel with full service amenities. That way all the single migrants in the workforce can be close to all the jobs and not have to worry about meals or washing their clothes.