Two ‘Architecturally Spectacular’ Brickell Towers Announced, Including New Mandarin Oriental

Swire Properties has unveiled plans for a two-tower project on Brickell Key called One Island Drive.

The towers will be “architecturally spectacular,” designed by Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates, Swire said.

The taller tower will be called The Residences at Mandarin Oriental, Miami and rise over 800 feet, with 220 residential units.

The second tower will be a Mandarin Oriental hotel, rising approximately 400 feet. It will include 151 guest rooms, 61 private residences and 28 hotel residences.

Interior design at the residences will be by Parisian designer Tristan Auer. At the hotel, interior design will be by Parisian designer Laura Gonzalez. Landscape design will be by Thai firm Shma. All three are new to the Miami market.

Sales will launch in late 2023, with prices starting at $3.5 million.

 

(images: Binyan Studios)

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Adriana Alonso
3 months ago

wow!

Azarius
3 months ago

Yesterday I stated renders will make all the difference in the public opinion about this project

Anon
3 months ago

wow you’re really cool, thanks for reminding us

Annonymous
3 months ago

Thank you for your wisdom. Keep guiding us.

Anonymous
3 months ago

Fantastic renderings will not change public opinion. The public is smart and experienced enough to know what can and cannot be done here. Best to propose something realistic that is incredible and can be delivered.

Anonymous
3 months ago

This project is incredible and can be delivered. The public is divided, but many of us support this project. Please don’t ever attempt to speak for all of us, NIMBY.

Checo
3 months ago

There is wisdom in crowds, but it a stretch to say, “the public is smart” is a stretch.

There are great number of people whose reading comprehension skills, basic math skill, and common sense are sub-par. It does not occur to them that:

1. The current set up of the Mandarin Oriental is 295 transient rooms.
2. The proposed set up of the Mandarin Oriental will be LESS transient units by more than 116 units.

Further, the amount of acreage being put to use will greatly enhance view corridors and open up more space on the current Mandarin Oriental site.

As for the tall tower of 220 residences, don’t worry too much about those residents creating traffic as they all race simultaneously to make their 9-5 jobs. The mortgages will be high enough that many will have to get in earlier to punch the clock at 8:45am and 8:30am and punch out at 5:15pm to rack up that time and a half.

Checo
3 months ago

Correction: The current Mandarin Oriental has 326 transient rooms.
The proposed Mandarin Oriental will have 179.

147 less.

Anonymous
3 months ago

I like that the columns are not straight cylinders – they are almost triangular like the shape of a tree or the segments of bamboo, giving it a more earthy and organic look.

Leo
3 months ago

How can you tell from these renderings?

Anonymous
3 months ago

Approved.

Anonymous
3 months ago

I wish the hotel was the taller tower so people can get daypasses to that infinity beach pool. It could be an amenity for all of brickell to use with a day pass.

Brickell resident
3 months ago

new buildings near Brickell Ave (so within a block or two, + Brickell Key)
* means a little early to be confident, but rest seem pretty far along:

2 – 1000+ ft – 888 Brickell, Citadel HQ

5 – 900-1000 ft – Cipriani Condos, Ora by Casa Tua, One Brickell City Center, One Brickell Tower III*, condo behind Presbyterian Church*

4 – 800-900 ft – 1428 Brickell, One Brickell Tower I (Baccarat Residences), Mandarin Oriental Residences*, 75 Broadway*

1 – 700-800 ft – Apt tower I next to Cipriani

3 – 600-700 ft – Una, St. Regis, Apt tower II next to Cipriani

1 – 500-600 ft – One Brickell Tower II

1 – 400-500 – Mandarin Oriental Hotel*

Total – 17 buildings

Doesn’t include many more (10+?) going up in Brickell between the metrorail line and I-95. Many of those quite tall.

This area is going to look so different and incredible in 5 or so years!

Anon
3 months ago

So incredible that similar growth is happening in Park West and Wynnwood as well – the entire city is popping!

Babbaboey
3 months ago

Really? Wynwood has 1,000ft Mandarin Oriental towers?
Great info! Thanks.

Trump 2024
3 months ago

He meant building being built and planed. Obviously not the same height.

Henry
3 months ago

So when wrote “similar he meant not similar in size, quality, or location.
Got it.
Thanks

A J
3 months ago

That’s accurate. He meant similar growth. That’s why the word growth is adjacent to the word similar. The second part of the sentence, following the hyphen, provides context indicating that he is referring to growth across different parts of the city, not that the same building had been replicated 1,000 times. Just before the hyphen he provides examples of other areas experiencing growth. It’s a single sentence, which does not leave much room for confusion. And yet….

Anonymous
3 months ago

^ hilarious!

Anonymous
3 months ago

Pooping… you mean.

Anon
3 months ago

Plus One Southside and new Brickell River District

Anon
3 months ago

And Metrocenter!

Anonimato
3 months ago

We will be lucky to see half of the announced projects brake ground in the building cycle.

Anonymous
3 months ago

Brickell River district is almost complete and foundation is going in for One Southside.

Dalron J
3 months ago

Sheath, how many of these are approved.

Checo
3 months ago

You really do not know what you are writing about.

Anonymous
3 months ago

A tower that is 800 feet tall might not be classified as super tall, but it is still very tall and impressive. And since it will only have 220 residential units, it’s understandable why prices start at $3.5 million. the views alone will be worth every penny.

Anonymous
3 months ago

Can’t love this more! Much needed upgrade for Brickell Key.

Downtown Lover
3 months ago

Amazing❤️❤️❤️

LEP
3 months ago

WOW WOW WOW Brickell 2027 will be incredible

The Real Miami
3 months ago

Approved

Babbaboey
3 months ago

Slap “Like” now.

Former Key Resident
3 months ago

These will no doubt be amazing but as a resident on the island from 2015-2020, that park will be missed, as will the boutique nature of the current hotel. We always knew this day would come though, as they’ve had a sign at the park for many years that said “future development site”.

Another Former Key Resident
3 months ago

I was there 2015-2021 … great spot to live but traffic at times of day awful and now 5 years+ of demolition and re-building over that low capacity bridge and Brickell/8th St Intersection! Also losing La Mar and the hotel bar and spa, AND … drumroll … upcoming is refurbishing of the Brickell Key Bridge so prob a year of 1/2 capacity. Will be nice in the end, but bummer for folks living there from now to 2028 (at least those with regular commuting hours).

Cover the Podiums
3 months ago

Two good things about this project. 1) its not a super tall, so it wont standout too much. Which is good since everything else in the key is tiny. 2) its not a rectangular cereal box like 95% of miami.

Anonymous
3 months ago

Why don’t you eat a box of frosted d!cks, “it’s a rectangular cereal box, it looks like a cereal box…”

Anonymous
3 months ago

Lovely tallest, but tear down a twenty-three-year-old hotel that is consistently ranked the best in Miami for something not much bigger in size, but don’t replace thirty-plus-year-old office towers with something taller and instead mutilate their architecture turning them into glass boxes?

Anon13
3 months ago

The existing MO property is showing its age. I will miss the happy hour though!

1 to Know
3 months ago

Gorgeous tower and will complement the surrounding towers near the river

Nick
3 months ago

I want.

Anonymous
3 months ago

The Residences (taller tower) is amazing. The Hotel (shorter one), not so much. Frankly, I like the existing RTKL-designed building better.

Anonymous
3 months ago

Didnt Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates design Hudson Yards in NYC? They should include a observation/sky deck. Its a perfect place!

Babbaboey
3 months ago

And 1395 Brickell (the Conrad) with the Concave/Convex bridge to Latin America theme.
CPF is exceptional.

MKW
3 months ago

Wasn’t this originally supposed to be a super-tall building? It’s odd that they specifically stated that only to cut it back. That said, it’s a nice-looking pair of buildings.

Anon Guy
3 months ago

Every building doesn’t have to be a super tall. height is great but it isn’t everything

Babbaboey
3 months ago

Only little guys say that size doesn’t matter.

Anonymous
3 months ago

We live in a town where two moderately sized cereal boxes are called “supertowers” and everything is “iconic.” The accepted definition of a “supertall” doesn’t apply.

Anonymous
3 months ago

Beautiful!

Bobby
3 months ago

Beautiful, now let’s get going on Brickell South, building next to Uno (Brickell Town House?) has offers?

calivalle
3 months ago

The first rendering was phenomenal…Very futuristic

reader joe
3 months ago

only one way in / out , no green OMG

Checo
3 months ago

Having walked around Brickell Key since 1992, I am certain that there is a lot of green space and an attractive perimeter path, but there are also fantastic views of the Biscayne Bay National Park, the Miami River, the Brickell Skyline, and countless other gems.
Further, the people who live on the Brickell Key are very courteous and accommodating to the people who come from off island to enjoy the paths.

Upgrading the Mandarin Oriental and building more residences will be an improvement, and of course, the perimeter path will remain, and the new buildings will have new landscaping.
D’uh.

Nunya
3 months ago

Are they demolishing the old Mandarin and good luck in getting off the key in under 30 minutes and then youll have to deal with Brickell. Traffic will be FUCKED!

Allen
3 months ago

Hope they have the walking path continue around the island and not stop walkers
Also, too big for the island. Those they live here will have to endure much during the construction

Common sense
3 months ago

They live in a major city. Get over it!

Anon
3 months ago

Do the cities you’ve been to not have walking paths…?

Bobby v
3 months ago

They do, but the rendering indicates the path will be affected

Bobby v
3 months ago

If you don’t live on the island, you have no clue!

Babbaboey
3 months ago

They will have to endure the trials and tribulations of Mary Brickell….who lived in the area without air conditioning, sidewalks that were 38 feet wide, mosquitos that would suck half your life in an afternoon, and no Miami Heat NBA Final appearances.

Life is will be soooooooo extraordinarily difficult for the property owners on Brickell Key. Thank you Allen for your compassion and concern for the most vulnerable of us all.
Can you please share the GoFundMe page so that we can compensate these poor people for their loss?

Checo
3 months ago

Keep telling yourself that.

anonanon
3 months ago

Approve this beauty!! This will be great for the area and add more green space

Architects Everywhere
3 months ago

I’m pouring one out for what could have been.

Bobby
3 months ago

I hope this will not increase the annual fees for the island for other residents. Also, will it block the circular walk?

Babbaboey
3 months ago

To the question. The answer is no.

Conno Sir
3 months ago

Who is the architect of the towers? Surely, they’ll sell out quickly. Gorgeous building!

Anon
3 months ago

it’s in the 2nd sentence, if you bothered to read the text you wouldn’t have to ask

Anonymous
3 months ago

Another beaut by Kohn Pedersen Fox!

Not That I Could Do Better
3 months ago

Eh…

Conno Sir
3 months ago

Thanks

Paul Edgewater
3 months ago

They may want to consider widening the bridge and finally restricting vehicle access. The fake guard/gate has been an embarrassment for far too long.

Mat
3 months ago

and what about that wonderful park? will they use that land to build this building? that is one of the only few parks we have…

Door Mat
3 months ago

It’s not a park and as such “we” don’t have jack

Anonymous
3 months ago

Good looking towers, but their are no supertalls. I guess a lot of the readers on this site will be disappointed.

Anonymous
3 months ago

Do people on this site jerk off to building heights?

Kleenix Dispenser
3 months ago

That, and bicycles and Metromover and coffee shops.

Anonymous
3 months ago

We may not obsess over cars or sitting in traffic, but I’ll tell you what, we know how to spell Kleenex!

Anon
3 months ago

^^and you know how to use it as well!

Anonymous
3 months ago

Nobody on here ever obsesses over cars or sitting in traffic. However, many posters do in fact obsess over bicycles and Metromover.

Anonymous
3 months ago

If you’re not obsessed with alternative forms of transportation… you are obsessed with sitting in traffic.

Anonymous
3 months ago

^^No, you’re simply obsessed and irritating.

Anonymous
3 months ago

Bicycles and Metromover are not legitimate, alternative form of transportation to take enough cars off the road to make a difference.

Anon
3 months ago

^^This 💯

Babbaboey
3 months ago

That is 100% false.
ONE of the problems with an education that neglects critical thinking, logic, and reason is that you must believe silliness.

Listen to yourself.

People who do not think X-Problem (for example: The Y2k catastrophe, the Zika Virus, Foot & Mouth disease, CFC’s, etc etc) is a real problem are not obsessed with silliness, they are just wise enough to know that some dopey professor or a dopey bureaucrat, and a dopey politician are trying to manipulate your mind because they think that its weak.

Checo
3 months ago

Impressive comments.

“I have an idea”. Yes, you have a lot of ideas. The types of ideas of a lonely, unproductive parasite sucking up that air and taking up space.

It’s not to late. Get off your computer, take a walk around Brickell Key, take in some fresh air, watch the sun rise.

Do this quickly! I saw “The Inconvenient Truth” movie in 2008 and Brickell Key is going to be under water and inhabitable by 2018!

Hurry Sunshine! Get out there, enjoy the good life while you still can!!!

Bruno
3 months ago

“We”??

I would like to belive that there are individuals with diverse and includive thoughts and ideas.

(If your only chance for community is The Next Miami. Read a book. Get a job. And do SOMETHING productive for society.

Se me paro'
3 months ago

We do more than that….
Beautiful tower and actually glad that it’s not a supertall. It’s the perfect size for Brickell Key

Anonymous
3 months ago

Yeah!

Anon
3 months ago

They’re so obsessed with height to the point where they constantly ask for the entire airport relocated….

Anonymous
3 months ago

Yes!

Grant Webster
3 months ago

Are they just getting rid of Brickell Key Park? What will happen to that greenspace?

Anon
3 months ago

It will be drastically reduced. This is Brickell. Green space is not a priority here density is.

Anonymous
3 months ago

Wrong. Green space is the priority.

Babbaboey
3 months ago

Sorry Grant. There is, and has never been such a thing as “Brickell Key Park”.
Did one of those Anonymous guys tell you that it was?

Don’t stop believing….
But…
Stop believing dummies.

Anonymous
3 months ago

That building has no business being right there. Y’all are nuts. It’s like sitting in the ocean already. But all you fan boys will say you see no issues.

Anonymous
3 months ago

The people in Brickell complaining about development have no business being there. What exactly did they think they were signing up for when moving to a fast-paced and high density urban area where the sky is full of construction cranes??