One BCC Submitted To UDRB: 977-Foot Tower To Include New Metromover Entrance

Plans for One Brickell City Centre have just been submitted to Miami’s Urban Development Review Board, along with new renderings.

The files show that the tower is planned to top off at 59 stories, or 977 feet (supertalls are generally defined as being 300 meters, or 984 feet).

A rooftop helipad is planned. Below that is office (no restaurant, bar, or observation deck is proposed at the top of the tower.)

According to the new submission, One Brickell City Centre is planned to include:

  • 1,136,718 square feet of habitable office space
  • 17,014 square feet of retail/food and beverage on levels 1, 2 and 3
  • 1,397 vehicular parking spaces on levels 2 through 14 (in a 157-foot pedestal)

Expansive plazas to enhance the public realm are planned at the corners of Brickell Avenue and 7th and 8th Streets.

A direct connection from Brickell Avenue to the BCC Metromover Station is also being built.

The Climate Ribbon will also be extended from the rest of the Brickell City Centre complex.

Arquitectonica is the architect.

Related Companies and Swire Properties are the developers.

A demolition ceremony was recently held at the site.

The UDRB hearing is scheduled for June 21.

 

 

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MiamiArchi
3 months ago

I still like this tower but I can’t help but be disappointed with some of the execution.
Such a shame they changed the bronze fins to an Aluminum finish. I think it is noticeably less impressive.
I saw the ground floor plan and the car circulation is a disaster.
7th street has almost no store frontage and is just endless BOH walls and curb cuts for cars. Which is just not enjoyable when you are walking it.
And the Helicopter landing pad execution looks terrible and ruins the roof of the building. it will be very visible.
Plus not using the rooftop for anything seems like a missed opportunity.
Maybe I’m just being picky but for a building that has so much potential I can’t help but feel they are falling short.

Anonymous
3 months ago

Missed opportunity for an observation deck

Anonymous
3 months ago

No observation deck!?!?

Anonymous
3 months ago

Why don’t they just add a restaurant to the top and make it a supertall? They are SO close… I’m sure it would be packed every night even in the summer

Anon
3 months ago

“the Helicopter landing pad execution looks terrible and ruins the roof of the building. it will be very visible.” Visible from where ? Mars ? no-one on the street is going to be able to see this buddy.

Anonymous
3 months ago

Love this design! Can our next super tall be a spire? Hope Ken is working on a spire building 🤞

Anonimato
3 months ago

MiAmi needs a spire!

anon
3 months ago

Why can’t they share the thousands of under-utilized parking spaces from BCC? Why is another car-centric street level design needed in the densest neighborhood in Miami? This is a disaster, but doesn’t have to be.

Anonymous
3 months ago

Because we have a god given right to drive our suburbans into Brickell from BFE. One man, one car, no matter the destination. This is the way it’s supposed to be.

Anonymous
3 months ago

works fine for me. I don’t wanna sit next to strangers on a beer can short bus. Too close for comfort.

Anonymous
3 months ago

You’re better off sitting next to a stranger than driving next to one in Miami 😂

RnO
3 months ago

welcome to the chat, Crooked Carollo

Gus
3 months ago

That is the way

Make Miami Sophisticated Again
3 months ago

I understand your concerns but at this point just be grateful we’re getting a building of this caliber. It’s ridiculous the country’s 3rd largest skyline still doesn’t have a super tall. BCC is a great start to something this city desperately needs.

Anon
3 months ago

I think we’ll be 3rd largest US skyline at some point, but as of now I’d assume Atlanta and maybe even Dallas and Houston would be considered ahead of ours. And just to add a grain of rationality, nobody “needs” and certainly doesn’t “desperately need” a super tall … it’s what many people (me included) would like for the drama/style/beauty of it, but we’ll manage either way.

Anonymous
3 months ago

We have been the third largest for awhile! And last I heard we outpaced Chicago for the number 2 spot after New York 🥂 🎉

Miami fan but based in reality
3 months ago

Guess Fox News is your source! Have u ever been to Chicago, you’d know that’s a totally made up claim.

Anon
3 months ago

happy Miami is growing, but that Chicago comparison is total BS

Anonymous
3 months ago

Miami is officially the third largest skyline in the US now and has been for some time. Your suggestion that Houston and Dallas would be larger shows that you are not aware of this designation and also not aware of the true extent of Miami’s tremendous surge in the rankings over the past few years. Not surprising, because Miami is still thought in the minds of some to be small townish and “just a tourist town,” etc, etc. I’m not saying you specifically are thinking that way but many outside of South Florida still imagine Miami to be less impressive than it really is. This happens when a city and a region grow and transform so fast that the image lags behind the reality by decades or longer.

Anonymous
3 months ago

Y’all dumb. The “award” for skylines is completely arbitrary

Anonymous
3 months ago

Houston?! Lol you’ve never been. It has 12 buildings in all of downtown, or some crazy small number

Jeff Stryker
3 months ago

I’ve been to Houston, they have girth, girth matters

Anonimato
3 months ago

Your assumption is way off . The Atlanta skyline does have spires and maybe it looks more impressive because of that, but Miami has the third largest skyline in the country ..

Sea Eye Ah
3 months ago

Don’t let the hater comments get you down Swire, it’s gorgeous! they’re probably all from China via Cuba 🚨 🇨🇺 🇨🇳 All the haters on this site may just be communist disrupters.

Anon
3 months ago

Person happiest with latest changes will be Ken Griffin. Just got so much easier for Citadel HQ to be THE building in Miami

Anonymous
3 months ago

And he must be attracting some prime tenants if this build was scaled down…

Anon
3 months ago

Right! Bring back the copper fins! Give Ken a challenge!

Melo is sigma and Chad
3 months ago

Hope the One Biscayne tower has the metromover this integrated into the tower.

Anonymous
3 months ago

It’s One Bayfront Plaza. And yes, they are planning to integrate the Metromover to the tower.

Anonimato
3 months ago

How so?! Will they divert the current metro mover station across the street or condemn part or biscayne Blvd to do that ?!

Anonymous
3 months ago

Another beautiful addition to our neighborhood from Swire. <3

Anonymous
3 months ago

Observation deck lacking is a miss imo

Anonymous
3 months ago

The observation deck will be at One Bayfront Plaza.

Anonymous
3 months ago

That building proposal has far, far less of a chance of becoming reality than this one does.

Anonymous
3 months ago

Downtown is for affordable housing jaja maybe a Pizza Hut deck!

Anonymous
3 months ago

Last reported one bayfront was becoming more geared towards residential than office

Que bolá
3 months ago

It has been losing appeal everytime the renderings get updated.

*Name
3 months ago

Amazing project. Given the slow down in office absorption though, it will be interesting to see if this will take off.

Anonymous
3 months ago

The one benefit of this project is the large floor plate which not many office towers down here have

Anonymous
3 months ago

Yes, it’s like a New York City style office tower.

Anonymous
3 months ago

977 ft is really tall for 59 stories esp. with no spire

Anonymous
3 months ago

Office towers have higher ceilings than residential towers

Anonymous
3 months ago

It’s really tall for an OFFICE building that’s only 59 floors

Anonymous
3 months ago

Not really… they’re only 16’ ceilings

Vincent
3 months ago

So literally 7 feet short of supertall status. smh.

Anon
3 months ago

It seems so intentional there must be a reason to not be 300 meters. Maybe insurance enters a new pricing tier, maybe something else … especially when they initially were planning to go taller. Or maybe it’s as simple as they just couldn’t care less if it gets labeled as a supertall.

Just Passing By
3 months ago

Supertall requires more area dedicated to life safety. Stairs, etc.. Not worth eating up floor space for a few extra levels is my guess.

Name*
3 months ago

1.1 million square feet is not a very large office building with ‘record size floor plates’ like they said. This is only the same size as the Southeast Financial Center, the 764′ 55 floor wachovia building.

Anonymous
3 months ago

at just 4 stories taller I can’t imagine it being over 200′ taller.

Mad Dash
3 months ago

Just shy of a supertall but great addition to our skyline.

Anonymous
3 months ago

Why don’t the go one more floor to make a nice even 60 stories and make it a super tall. More prestigious. Surprised at Swire and related

Anonymous
3 months ago

For too sensible

bob art guy
3 months ago

What happened to the brown vertical stripes? The look of this box is now very nondescript. It’s a great lost opportunity to make something visually exciting. Just another soulless gray glass box. Put some color into it. Or light it up at night to make a statement on the skyline !!!!!

bob art guy
3 months ago

Interesting how the things people make reflect who they are. Another bean counter building. There is still time to redeem yourselves with this over logical / boring creation. 1: You have one of the cities tallest structures yet you do not have a spire or a dramatic top. Redo your design. Make the top a spectacular sight and it will beckon. We are all reminded of the Empire State Building because they have a nightly light show. When everyone recognizes your product. I can not see how that will be bad for business.

Anonymous
3 months ago

Buildings in miami are composed of inactive street level, enormous parking podiums, followed by a rectangular structure that ends on a flat top.

Anonimato
3 months ago

This tower seems to be getting uglier and shorter by the week .. lol

To tell the T
3 months ago

Architectonica can’ t come out of gallivanting balconies even behind sheaths of glass. I would have preferred something less boxy and more iconic but it will enhance the area and the density will help BCC

Anonymous
3 months ago

A grand station for one of the most sad transit systems in the country.

calivalle
3 months ago

Not really sold on this type of design..

Bandit
3 months ago

A lot of office space… In our new work from anywhere reality seems like an interesting play.

Anon
3 months ago

People say they are working from “anywhere” but let’s be real. They are working from Miami 😉

Anonymous
3 months ago

That work from anywhere option is fading as layoffs mount

Anonymous
3 months ago

Depends on the sector. I’m in law and everyone I know is still at least hybrid (often at least 2 days a week in office required). Most big firms have made plans to continue this indefinitely.

Anonymous
3 months ago

law hasn’t been hit yet, but tech has already felt the axe

Anon
3 months ago

What layoffs? HR is struggling to hire.

Anonymous
3 months ago

News much???

Zz01
3 months ago

The image west of I-95 reminded me of how sorely Miami would benefit from some evergreen trees to give it that bigmetropolitan city vibe.

MMN
3 months ago

I find it pretty boring and overly thick all the way up to 977. My opinion is from most angels not gonna look the best. The original copper color might have helped some.

Kitty w
3 months ago

Interesting scale. Dominates the whole block. I don’t think the podium is as attractive as the kinetic skin nearby, traffic on this corner already is rough, an additional couple hundred cars certainly won’t help.

Anonymous
3 months ago

More density

Anonymous
3 months ago

A grand station for one of the most sad transit systems in the country.

Anonimato
3 months ago

Flat top swire is lacking a spire!

Anonimato
3 months ago

The climate ribbon at the bottom of the building with that angle looks like a sail waiting to be blown away by hurricane winds. I hope it’s hurricane proof…

Anonymous
3 months ago

Probably one of the best looking buildings proposed in this city. Folks on this site have trash taste. No appreciation for subtelty or understated elegance. Just always looking for the gaudy. Country bumpkins who get impressed by glitter all the time. Oh yeah, and they expect ringed balconies on every residential building, all looking the same….uhhhhggggh

Realtalk Reilly
3 months ago

This is going to be the tallest building in Brickell, at least for a time, and considering airport height restrictions it will be one of the tallest forever.

If you are among the top five or so tallest buildings on the skyline, you owe to the Gods of Aesthetics to top off with some sort of noteworthy chapeau. This one does not.

Anonymous
3 months ago

Even with the changes, still better than the box with a hole in it previously proposed.

Anon
3 months ago

Agree 100%