Swire Gets FAA Approval For ‘Architecturally Spectacular’ Brickell Towers

The Federal Aviation Administration has just given the green light to two towers on Brickell Key proposed by Swire Properties.

According to a letter issued this morning (June 22), the towers have been determined to not be a hazard to air navigation.

Tower 1 is approved up to height of 1,044 feet above ground, or 1,049 feet above sea level.

Tower 2 is approved up to height of 691 feet above ground, or 700 feet above sea level.

The approved heights appear taller than what may actually be built.

Earlier this month, Swire announced plans for a two-tower project 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 announcement said.

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.

Sales will launch in late 2023.

 

(images: Binyan Studios)

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Anonymous
3 months ago

The views will be spectacular.

Cover the podiums
3 months ago

Yea for them, not you lmao

Anonymous
3 months ago

Can’t wait for this one. 😍

Anonymous
3 months ago

Architecturally Spectacular? That?!

Anonymous
3 months ago

It’s definitely interesting but yet not sure if I’d call it spectacular

Anonymous
3 months ago

That fake design that got floated was spectacular.

Anonimato
3 months ago

Maybe because it’s not so boxy…..lol

Anonymous
3 months ago

I love how they literally just paid off the mortgage for the existing building and now they are going to knock it down lol

zachj305
3 months ago

They paid it in full so that they COULD knock it down. The collateral for the mortgage is the building so they wouldn’t be able to demolish it with the mortgage in place.

Clem
3 months ago

Literally.
LOL.
WE NEED better schools.

Spectacular Icon
3 months ago

‘Architecturally Spectacular’ is the new ‘Iconic’

Anonymous
3 months ago

But it’s neither.

Anonymous
3 months ago

I see Courvoisier Centre was updated in the renderings with its generic glass cladding. Frankly, should have redeveloped those office towers as well rather than mutilating their classic 1980s Miami Vice meets Wall Street corporate raider look.

Noah Chomsky Jr
3 months ago

Agree!! The Courvoisier Center now looks like something that belongs to Doral or Blue Lagoon … the new glass structure is blah… boring and disconnected with the rest of the buildings in the island
I bet it’s one of those crazy “sustainability” environmentally green energy crappola” …that millennials and gen Z need to calm their fears that the world is ending in 12 years….

Bob art guy
3 months ago

Not spectacular!. Very very nice but that is as far as I would go. The previous proposal was spectacular.

Anonymous
3 months ago

It wasn’t a real proposal, arty farty.

Name
3 months ago

There is absolutely nothing “architecturally spectacular” about this.

Anonymous
3 months ago

Brickell Key Soaring.

George
3 months ago

How can anyone live in a swan?

The One
3 months ago

Looks like any other brickell tower. Nothing special.

Bob art guy
3 months ago

As long as developers want to make money… architecture in Miami will not be spectacular. Too bad

Anonymous
3 months ago

Tower 1 is spectacular. Tower 2 is bleh and squat, considering it’s replacing a building that frankly looks better.

Anonymous
3 months ago

The current Mandarin Hotel building is extremely dated. It’s bordering on an eyesore.

George
3 months ago

Sorry typo, I meant swamp.

Anonimato
3 months ago

If the timeline for one brickell is of any indication we will see this building break ground by 2035!

Make Miami Sophisticated Again
3 months ago

Another overpriced condo tower for the 1%. How about constructing an Empire State type building with an observation deck like NY. Yawn.

Anon
3 months ago

Agree! Would be great to see a hotel and observation deck at the top and lower level condo deck

Anonymous
3 months ago

Brickell Key is not a tourist attraction for an observation deck. Leave that to OBP, or a SkyRise which doesn’t look like a toenail clipper.

Anonymous
3 months ago

Not in that location but definitely downtown. Thymes need to revive the SkyRise!!

Leo
3 months ago

The 1% pay your salary.

Noah Chomsky Jr
3 months ago

😂😂😂

Make Miami Sophisticated Again
3 months ago

I love this building! Awesome.

anon
3 months ago

just curious by “make miami sophisticated again” what do you mean? 🤨 make miami less hispanic?

Crocodile Ferrari
3 months ago

Will there be low-cost affordable dining options available for the rest of the city? How are people going to eat?

Anonymous
3 months ago

uhhh, by buying food at supermarkets and eating at home if they’re that desperate.

Anonymous
3 months ago

Arquitectonica = architecturally spectacular

Leo
3 months ago

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

Sorry
3 months ago

Need an observation deck in this one but I’m sure it won’t happen

Anonymous
3 months ago

This could be the Burj Khalid’s of Miami if it only could go higher

Concerned
3 months ago

This seems like too much for the current Brickell Key infrastructure. What about another drawbridge with access to Biscayne Blvd to the north?

Sorry
3 months ago

Good idea but I’d prefer a tunnel over yet another drawbridge

Make Miami Sophisticated Again
3 months ago

LOL, you don’t know a) space available, b) drawbridge downsides. The tunnel option is the only thing that could work but at $1B+ not likely. Brickell Key traffic already messy, but this replaces hotel (doesn’t measurably add to existing traffic) and with a couple hundred units that are 3rd or 4th homes won’t add many trips over that little bridge

Make Miami Sophisticated Again
3 months ago

There you go again stealing my name. By the way you’re grammar is at a 3rd grade level or less. What a loser.

Anonymous
3 months ago

The residents, current and prospective, believe quite contrarily.

Clem
3 months ago

But it’s not.
The small units in the hotel are being removed for larger residences.

There are only a few additional residences added.
The hotel ballrooms and conference rooms will likely accommodate fewer weddings/guests/conferences.

Don’t worry too much. No need to build extra bridges or a Metromover connection.