Twin 60-Story Residential Towers Planned Inside New Faena District

Plans have been announced for two 60-story towers called Faena Residences Miami, along with a new cultural district, Faena District Miami River.

The buildings will include 440 residential condos. At the top, the towers will be connected by a two-story 45,000-square-foot “cultural epicenter.”

Rafael Viñoly Architects is designing the towers. It is one of the last works by the late architect Viñoly.

The new towers will be “set within the only 14-acre private park along the Miami River.”

The Faena District Miami River will extend over three blocks and will include curated cultural spaces, wellness facilities, a marina, recreational areas, and public art.

Fortune International Group and KAR Properties are the developers.

Sales of residential units are expected to launch in Q4 of 2024.

 

(images: Binyan Studios)

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Rocky.
15 days ago

We can only hope they are serious this time about building this. That lot has sat empty for years even after this project was announced.

Jessi
14 days ago

Excellent observation Rocky.
Like many pieces of land that have sat “empty” on the Miami River since the Tequesta and Seminole wars, there are people with ideas and cojones to turn these empty lots into something productive.

If you are interested in the The Next Miami…stay curious. Ask yourself, “Am I authentic? Am a I real person who defaults to action? Or am a whiner victim? Of all the things I type about other people NOT doing…..Am I doing any of that?”

Jamrock
14 days ago

Excellent observation Jessi.
Like many pieces of land that have sat “empty” on the Miami River since the Tequesta and Seminole wars, there are people with ideas and cojones to turn these empty lots into something productive.

If you are interested in the The Next Miami…stay curious. Ask yourself, “Am I authentic? Am a I real person who defaults to action? Or am a whiner victim? Of all the things I type about other people NOT doing…..Am I doing any of that?”

Wonda
15 days ago

Is that an infinity pool?? In Miami? I think it will be the first😱😱❤️

Tamon
15 days ago

But hopefully the first of many!

AAA
15 days ago

If it is a common communal pool, not possible, per the building code. A 4′ walkway around the pool is required. A private residence pool, however, can be infinity edge.

Jeremey Howlett
15 days ago

Looks like a swimming pool on the sky bridge , is that even possible given the span of the front, seems very risky, and will require the approval of all engineers.

Anon
15 days ago

Sorry, but this is worthless comment. Buildings get built by architects and engineers. It will not get built unless it is properly designed by and approved by an engineer to meet all Codes.

Jeremey Howlett
14 days ago

Anon, just like the hard rock collapse and the pedestrian bridge collapse recently? Engineers make mistakes all the time. There’s been a growing trend to push limits. Just look at the skinniest-skyscraper in downtown NYC that’s unfinished because it’s leaning. People need to wake up and pay attention, just because someone has a degree in engineering doesn’t mean they know what they are doing.

Anon
15 days ago

right, otherwise if they don’t do a pool they don’t have to have any engineers approving things

Anonymous
15 days ago

I’ve heard all the discussions about the regulations, though I haven’t seen them myself. However, any creative engineer could design an infinity pool with a walkway just one level below, so the water doesn’t spill directly over the edge, while still maintaining the illusion from the pool level.

Confucio
15 days ago

I mean, aren’t all infinity pools built like that?

Anon
15 days ago

Incredible. Downtown is really popping.

Perplexed
15 days ago

So the article states the towers are being designed. Wasn’t this One River Point and designed 4 years ago?
So is Faena taking the same Viñoly design or are they on the drawing board designing a new project?

Anon
15 days ago

They are adapting the design. The renders depict their vision for the building.

Anonymous
15 days ago

looks the same

anonymous
15 days ago

all Faena is doing is slapping his name on the building to help with the marketing. Overall design is essentially the same as one River Point

Anon
15 days ago

Looks like the facade has been reworking as well as the base, actually.

Mike D
14 days ago

Diplomatically I say that you are somewhat off.
It’s worse than you think.

Anonymous
15 days ago

Basically, the same as Baccrap and Casa Tua, only a better architect who frankly could have designed something far better.

TMK
15 days ago

NO. They were designed by VIGNOLY about 10 years ago. In the rendering , isn’t there a THIRD building named IVY in the center between the 2 FAENA towers. ALSO…
the renderings are showing views from the top of the building. How are the views , REALLY?

Build Miami
15 days ago

The downtown side of the Miami river really could be the Aston Martin, the Kimpton Hotel, the proposed Hyatt Riverbridge super tall, and then this beautiful Faena residences. Downtown is the future for Miami

Ana
15 days ago

If they ever properly connected it to the LH and Brickell side, and then finished off the part that connects to the Brickell Circle…. Then it would be something special, for sure.

Anon
15 days ago

They will! In about 25 years

Anonymous
15 days ago

they need to revamp 2nd avenue bridge with bike lanes and make it wider, and add better architecture and new paint. can they just redo all our bridges?

Mike D
14 days ago

EXCELLENT POST !!!!

I just checked into it…. I called “they”…. because you must have been to busy to move your fingers for more than to type a few keystrokes.
I gotcha back bruddah!

They said,
“WTF? Are you some dopey loser who expects everyone to make the world better for you, and when they DO make the world better for you, YOU continue to bitch?!!?”

I said, NO MAM. It is worse.

There is this lazy ass loser on his Mother’s Health Insurance policy. He likes to ride his bike, AND he is such a sub-average bike rider he can’t even do that without a helmet and some government subsidies and traffic configurations that stifle commerce and slow down the producers.
Of course, this made no sense to her.

I politely asked, can you please get someone under 30 years old with zero real world experience and a sense of entitlement?

“They are all on their actualization break, but if they come back, I’ll try to translate this to them.”

Men throughout the ages have never needed any such thing as bike lanes, can the “they” widen the sidewalks, and make bikelanes, and pussify everything in Miami to accommodate the generations of daisies.

Asking for a friend:
Is it possible that the Seminole Indians were whipped off the planet because someone else “redid their bridges” or they did not hire the proper Bike Lane lobbyists?

Anon
14 days ago

100% spot on, and upvoted for use of the term “pussify” to describe this bike lane loser.
Guy wants to change the world so he can pedal around a major financial district like a 10 year old rides around the block in Weston. This chit is pure comedy gold.

Anon
13 days ago

downvoted you both for use of that word. It’s sexist, and demeans the integrity of our conversation.

Mike D
14 days ago

?????

To Tell The T
15 days ago

You forgot Okan and WA.

Karmen
15 days ago

And all the other towers being built and planned in Park West!

Build Miami
14 days ago

My post was referring to the buildings on the river on the downtown side. Of course there are many other great projects in the CBD

Anonymous
15 days ago

Too bad the Grand Boulevard scheme never happened i.e., removing the Downtown Distributor. Instead, you get Melo Towers filling in the cracks of the border vacuum, that cuts the river off from the historic core.

Mike D
14 days ago

So true.
Bernard is a very smart guy, and that idea seemed like a no brainer when I was 30 years old!

Anon
14 days ago

No, Too Good it never happened.

TMK
15 days ago

I think the BACCARAT property & the HYATT RIVERBRIDGE property are both much prettier locations.

Mike D
14 days ago

C’mon….
The north side of the river is the Central Business District.
The south side of the river is the Brickell Financial District.

BOTH are in Downtown Miami.

Fezzik
14 days ago

You mean the Central Business District side (north and east) of the Miami River.

Downtown includes the Central Business District and the Brickell Financial District.

Anonymous
13 days ago

Not in common parlance it doesn’t.

anonymous
15 days ago

I wish the park was public, Miami desperately needs more green space

People want things given not to give them
15 days ago

Why don’t you get together 30-50 Million and donate one.

Mike D
14 days ago

That is a great idea!
There are no real fundraisers in this comment section.

No wonder so many dopey people complain about low wages in the TNM comment section. The earners are building. The dopes are complaining.

People! Put all your collective brain matter in a bucket, supersize it, and try to build a park.

The Men and Women of action will build skyscrapers.

Anonymous
15 days ago

There is no park here, it’s misleading

Anonymous
15 days ago

It’s open to the public—just take a walk along the new riverfront. I really hope they preserve one of the wooden homes, and it looks like they are. It feels like a charming little winter village right in the heart of the city, just needs actual boutiques and restaurants—so cool!

TMK
15 days ago

WHERE IS THE PARK? Will it be on the 2 EMPTY LOTS as you enter this gated community?

Fezzik
14 days ago

That’s the idea. There are 6 parcels of land in the Riverfront community.

Wind, Mint, & Ivy exist on 3 of those parcels. Faena goes on parcel on the Miami River Greeenway, and the two northern most parcels within the community is what they are calling a private park…maybe they will improve it from the private park that it is today.

Mike D
14 days ago

Desperately?
Be “authentic”.

There are dedicated bike lanes all along SW 1st Ave with several Soy Latte stops along the way that take you to Bayshore park, Bayside, the Nationally Awarded Miami River Greenway, Maurice Ferere Park, and eventually the H.E.A.R.T of Miami and Baywalk to Margaret Pace Park and the Ocean front bike path to the ocean.

Anonymous
15 days ago

I hope this gets built. I have been drooling over this project.

*Name
15 days ago

Gorgeous! Love this.

Anonymous
15 days ago

“set within the only 14-acre private park along the Miami River” is very misleading – there is no private park unless that’s referring to the land mass under Mint and Wind, which is anything but a park , while the riverfront is public and will be required to be by law directly in front of this development.

anom
15 days ago

It sounds like Faena will be activating all 4 lots. There is a lot of retail and commercial space with the Mint/ Ivy/ Wind lots. Already the sales center is there so I can see Faena doing more

Anonymous
15 days ago

retail and commercial spaces are not private parks

TMK
15 days ago

Yes, I suppose FAENA will amazingly fill the streets with permanent art & exhibits. Could be very nice. Lots of views will be lost. But the property & waterfront should be super upgraded.

TMK
15 days ago

Is the gated community of IVY, MINT, WIND , now FAENA , open to the public ? There are those 2 more empty lots owned by the codevelop Karr. Maybe those will be a park? But they aren’t on the River.

Mike D
14 days ago

Just walk the property guy.

Fezzik
13 days ago

Just pull it up on maps.google.com or earth.google.com and it is easy to recognize that there are 6 parcels with two guard gates.

If you were to walk there tomorrow morning, you would see a parcel/park north of Wind, and another parcel/park north of Ivy. People will be walking their their dogs tomorrow morning. On the weekends, kids will be playing soccer.

The Faena Tower will be on the parcel to the South of Wind, and the East of Mint. The public Miami River Greenway will run under the Miami Avenue Bridge to the east, along the entire Riverfront community, under the Metrorail bridge, through the FPL site, under the SW 2nd Avenue Bridge.

Anonymous
15 days ago

This is exactly the waterfront cultural district that residents of Brickell and Downtown Miami have been hoping for as part of the city’s growth. The sophistication and artistic vision seen in Miami Beach brings promise of a new renaissance for the beautiful, yet underutilized, areas along our city’s majestic riverfront. Thank you, Faena!

???
15 days ago

I’m starting to see a trend with developers using brand names to sell units but so far it’s working!

Anonymous
15 days ago

Remember how well Faena worked out on Collins Avenue?

Anonymous
15 days ago

Can World Trade Center of the Americas be revived next?

Calivalle
14 days ago

This project will be awesome for the area..🔥🔥🔥

rainey411
15 days ago

Love them considering the entire development within a “private park” when its really just other buildings in the master development.

Zz001
15 days ago

Yea, they are definitely over selling the novelty of needing a separate key fob / clicker to get into the community. They used to refer to it as the only gated community in the area, but I guess that didn’t sell itself enough

Brickell
15 days ago

I wonder what the floorplans will look like. Northwest-facing condos will be devoid of any sunlight, directly facing The IVY (which, contrary to the renderings above, is located immediately behind FAENA) and the other two condos on the riverfront.

Also, I wonder if the landowner is trying to secure a new deal for the two land parcels in front of The IVY and MINT. I know that, in the past, there were plans to build other residential buildings there – but everything fell through.

Anon
15 days ago

KAR already owns them.

TMK
15 days ago

KARR the original developer & now co developer owns those 2 lots. Perhaps they’ll be park &/or cultural centers .. as on Collins Ave on the beach .

Anonn
15 days ago

Sad that where there could be prime view riverfront liner units, it’s just a giant FAENA on a wall

Anonymous
13 days ago

Why is the Immigration Court on the riverfront?

Is it just because it’s a federal building? Many rooms don’t even have windows. Could this be turned into a cultural center with a park and a tall pedestrian bridge that stays up and has elevators?

Anonymous
15 days ago

The design of the building is OLD. It looks like a 90’s hotel in NY. It’s also NOT an upscale neighborhood at all.

Anonymous
14 days ago

Cool another tower with apartments that nobody can afford unless they are Yankees, bankers, drug dealers, or lottery winners

Anonymous
13 days ago

Go back to Trailerhassee.

Larry Flynt
15 days ago

Beautiful concept. Horrible name. Va-Gina District.

Viva Las Vegas
15 days ago

Looks like it needs a casino inside. Maybe they can build a sphere next to it.

Anon
15 days ago

the signage is way too much, building is very nice but letters are just as tacky as those at the base of Trump Tower in Chicago

MB Voter
15 days ago

The design is a rip-off of the Rafael Viñoly project in downtown Miami!

Anonymous
15 days ago

It’s the same 💀

Brickell hoe
14 days ago

its the same design and he is still the architect