Swire Releases New Renderings Of One Brickell City Centre Supertall, Groundbreaking Soon

Developer Swire Properties released new renderings of their One Brickell City Centre supertall office tower in a social media post this morning.

The developer also confirmed that construction will begin in early 2023.

Signage has also been installed at the project site in recent days.

So far, only a tree permit appears to be in process for the property, with no other construction or demolition permits yet pending.

Miami commissioners voted September 22 to approve zoning changes needed for One Brickell City Centre, including allowing larger floor plates.

Hong Kong-based Swire is partnering with Miami Dolphins owner Stephen Ross’ Related Companies on the project.

 

Renderings released earlier:


 

 

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Meeami
6 months ago

This tower is world class. It really reminds me of when the South East bank tower was first built. This will become the centerpiece of the Miami Skyline.

Anonymous
6 months ago

If you call it “Meeami,” I have doubts you were alive when the Southeast Financial Center was built.

duhsantis
6 months ago

will the florida reinsurance cover the costs of flooding and hurricanes??

Liono
6 months ago

An absolute Goliath. Welcome to the Big leagues, Miami

Jesus
6 months ago

Way too beautiful. I want this thing erected asap. It’ll be the best thing about Miami yet.

Anon
6 months ago

the faster it is erect the better.

buttcheeks
6 months ago

ooohhh baby make it erect!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Anonymous
6 months ago

Well, if they want to start construction in early 2023, they need to get going. They need to remove more than 170 trees and demolish two ten stories office buildings.

Antennae
6 months ago

What about the archeologists?

Melo, the true giga chad
6 months ago

they can go kick rocks.

Anonymous
6 months ago

By early they mean May

Anonymous
6 months ago

Plus they need to remove all of the b&u&m&s and h&o&m&e&l&e&s&s that hang out there

Hilarious!
6 months ago

Yeah… and they should relocate all of them to your house.

Melo, the true giga chad
6 months ago

This is absolutely what Miami needs! Something straight out of lower Manhattan

Anonymous
6 months ago

Why lower Manhattan? Midtown Manhattan has plenty of built or under construction supertall towers. It’s better to say something straight out of New York City.

Anonymous
6 months ago

Midtown NYC is a flytrap, people mesmerized by the lights and leave immediately if they can make it out unscathed. Hopefully this doesn’t become anything like Manhattan – utilize the best ideas and incorporate lush outdoor space with mixed height developments, where people actually wish to stay.

Not Anonymous
6 months ago

Because lower Manhattan is the financial center of the city, and its where mot office towers are built.

Pythagoras
6 months ago

Not true. Midtown Manhattan is actually a bigger city skyline than Downtown NYC is (lower Manhattan).

Anonymous
6 months ago

Midtown Manhattan was an awful place to live and work – I did it for awhile, and Miami has way more to offer. No comparison, nor should there be. Hope developers and leaders maintain Brickell’s beauty and charm well designed buildings like this one. A buffer residential/retail zone of mid/low rises in the west and south would keep it from becoming congested and polluted like other high-rise cities. Also incorporating green space into multi levels and pasos helps. Keep up the excellent job Miami!

Anonymous
6 months ago

“Midtown Manhattan was an awful place to live and work – I did it for awhile, and Miami has way more to offer. No comparison”

With more and more people like you moving here, what makes you think Miami will escape the same fate?

Anonymous
6 months ago

Excellent observation. People are moving here for a reason. They don’t want to be in a place like Manhattan.

So wisdom would bestow upon us the foresight not to turn a place so desirable into a place where many are leaving. Rather than trying to copy something we have seen does not work – we can learn from the best parts and build “The Next Miami” ™️.

Anonymon
6 months ago

Midtown Manhattan is an amazing place to live and work.

Anonymous
6 months ago

It was, before Lindsay, and between Giuliani and DeBozo.

John
6 months ago

Oh really.. I would like to correct this one. There are 5 boroughs that makes NYC. Manhattan, Queens, Brooklyn, Bronx and Staten Island. Lower Manhattan is nothing more or less than downtown Manhattan

sim city playa
6 months ago

do we have jobs along the scale of lower manhattan??? do we have major t.v network offices here??? do we have a huge theater scene with all the jobs associated with that in broadway??? do we have major publishing companies here??? a major newspaper??? does your starbucks barrista on biscayne get paid at least 18$ hour???same with your cooks at the salsa fiesta????

Melo is sigma and Chad
6 months ago

Cant wait to see the connection with BCC and piling work.

Miami Winning
6 months ago

Miami Winning

Anonymous
6 months ago

Damn !!this thing is enormous!!

Anonymous
6 months ago

Ong, I love this!!!

what U talken bout Willis?
6 months ago

What’s “Ong?”

Anonymous
6 months ago

“On God”, or maybe they misspelt “OMG”

Anonymous
6 months ago

I bet you WERE alive before the Southeast Financial Center was built.

Anonymous
6 months ago

Let’s hope it happens. What a beautiful building.

Casey
6 months ago

Transformational!

MBeach
6 months ago

No….Iconic

I'll just assume
6 months ago

No, “Game Changing”

zachj305
6 months ago

No, “World-Class”

Anonymous
6 months ago

Beautiful design! Keep the tall and super tall towers growing in East and North Brickell, and develop a contrasting village style neighborhood with low/mid rises in West and South Brickell. It is already progressing this way and should continue. The mix of heights in this relatively limited development zone will bring balance and ensure that Brickell continues to be a beautiful place to work and live.

Anonymous
6 months ago

Agree! Even Manhattan has a low mid rise community near the financial hub where people can work and play… like TriBeca, or the West Village. From the looks of it, it seems West Brickell is being built out like the West Village with a more residential and retail focus.

Anonymous
6 months ago

It also serves as a transition zone between East Little Havana and Shenandoah, and Southwest Brickell and Coconut Grove.

Anonymous
6 months ago

Precisely, there needs to continue to be a natural progression of height so it’s not super tall abutted next to a neighborhood of single family homes to the west, or the Vizcaya historical property to the south. There’s a beautiful soccer field next to I95 and and west Brickell is really turning out to be a beautiful mid/low rise residential/retail transition zone.

Driving along I95 it’s nice to see the city stagger up, couldn’t imagine if this highway were squeezed between tall buildings. It’s great they are putting up a six story new school along the highway.

The land along the highway is too narrow for tall buildings and with the right low-cost, high-value barriers could be utilized as a park for children to play all year around.

I love to assume
6 months ago

Now, do you feel better after saying all that mushy sh*t?

John
6 months ago

Miami will not and can not be anything remotely like NYC. Manhattan is built on solid rock and is capable of supporting the skyscrapers. Miami is a flood zone area and is incapable to support skyscrapers. BTW, a high rise is a building that has 7 or more floors according the classification of a building.

Pythagoras
6 months ago

I love it!

Anonymous
6 months ago

Excluding the whole Dolphins debacle, Steve Ross of Related has far done more for Miami than Jorge Perez of the “other” Related with less real estate, and hopefully there’s even more to come. Even with the same architect, the quality is night and day.

Drac
6 months ago

They’re both business men, they do whatever to help their pockets, not the city.

Anonymous
6 months ago

Yup I agree.

Anonymous
6 months ago

It’s beautiful that the offices overlook gorgeous Mediterranean villa style architecture and greenery. Imagine if it was just looking at a glass wall? Glad to see them keep some low levels around to give it that light airy tropical feel.

Anonymous
6 months ago

It’s amazing how this tower dwarfs everything around it , this thing is going to draw a lot of attention

Anonymous
6 months ago

Hopefully it’ll draw attention away from the Waldork Astoria Rubix Cube Tower.

Anon
6 months ago

It won’t once cipriani, citadel, 888, and first presbyterien is built

Paul Pine
6 months ago

Brickell is already overcrowded . This is madness . Why destroy something that is good as is ?

Anonymous
6 months ago

Oh no! BrickHELL!!!!!

Anonymous
6 months ago

We need more luxury housing in West Brickell asap. People are moving to work in South and East Brickell. They need more luxury housing in a central walkable area.

Anonymous
6 months ago

Building more “affordable housing” is not going to improve the housing crisis. There’s plenty of affordable housing options in Miami – it’s just that people in the market for luxury housing would never choose to live there, but are being forced to sue to lack of luxury housing, which is driving up the costs in those “affordable housing” buildings. There’s a shortage of luxury housing.

We should focus on this to support all the new offices and business professionals moving to Miami. They want to be in a walkable nice community.

Anonymous
6 months ago

Love the mushroom statue at the base of the grand staircase.

Anon
6 months ago

That’s just a placeholder

Anonymous
6 months ago

I figured but props to the artist.

Anonymous
6 months ago

What a gorgeous rendering, I’m wondering what the other sides will look like though. Would’ve been nice to see each corner have the same balcony column design as shown for symmetry.

Anon
6 months ago

I’d prefer some asymmetry.

Anonymous
6 months ago

Agreed in this case, where it’s a main architectural feature of the tower. It’s not like asymetrical balconies or windows on a box, which make buildings look cheap and nasty.

Jared
6 months ago

Will this tower take up the entire block? Seems like from the renderings that the existing garages at 799 Brickell will be demolished, as well as the office tower on the corner on Brickell Ave.

Slim Shady
6 months ago

Yes

Anonymous
6 months ago

wow
could not be more boring if it tried…..

Anonymous
6 months ago

People keep saying there is a shortage of affordable housing but that’s not the case. There’s a shortage of luxury housing. Miami has so many cheap neighborhoods, but the lack of luxury housing in Brickell is driving up the costs and not keeping up with the demand. Hope developers build more top-tier luxury housing, and city supports it. Based on my assessment of the area West Brickell is the number one spot for this market.

Anonymous
6 months ago

Agree. There’s a lot affordable housing being built or built in Little Havana, Flagami, North Miami, Doral, Miami Springs, Cutler Bay, Miami Shores, etc.

However, there is a luxury housing shortage near the financial center, and it’s slowing down the economic growth and making it more expensive everywhere else. Even places that are not “luxury” are marketing themselves that way at high costs. We need competition in the luxury market.

If we build more luxury housing in West/South Brickell and Downtown, we will see the surrounding neighborhoods pick up too.

Anonymous
6 months ago

Agree, we need more luxury residential developments in Brickell, especially around the metro stops, and Downtown.

The alternative, is an ghetto core, where people don’t want to commute to, so investors develop outside the core. We saw that in previous decades.

There are plenty of affordable places along the metroline within easy reach of the urban core, Dadeland South, Dadeland North, Overtown, Culmer, Allapattah, Hialeah, Palmetto.

army corps of engineers
6 months ago

are you all happy with sundays flooding???????

Anonymous
6 months ago

It was kind of fun driving around in it! Glad I got an SUV.

Dn10
6 months ago

Amazing to see. Had doubts on when it would happen but amazing to see ground breaking next year.

Anonymous
6 months ago

So how tall will this super tall building be?
I believe they have already started working on a 100 story super tall building in downtown Miami as well.

Avigdor Feinstein
6 months ago

Miami is the next Wall Street, bubeleh!

Arrrrrq
6 months ago

SANAA lite

giorgio righi riva
6 months ago

miami si under the dictat of arquitectonica: chip dull banal uninspired copy cat , standard architecture. great architects where are you? Jean Nouvel? Libeskind, herzog meuron?, un studio?, Mirallestagliabue,Morphosis, Mad, ……