Pritzker Prize-winning architect David Chipperfield is designing a 26-story residential tower for Miami’s Design District, marking the area’s first residential development. The project is planned for 39 NE 39th Street and will include 143 condominium residences and a hotel component.
The building represents Chipperfield’s only active project in Florida. The Miami project joins the portfolio of London-based David Chipperfield Architects, whose body of work spans civic, cultural, and residential architecture across Europe, Asia, and the Americas, including the Neues Museum and James-Simon-Galerie in Berlin and the Turner Contemporary Museum in Margate, United Kingdom.
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The development is being led by Fort Partners, Raycliff Capital, Miami Design District Associates, and Constellation Hotels Holding Ltd. Miami Design District Associates has been central to the transformation of the neighborhood into an internationally recognized destination for art, fashion, and architecture, while Fort Partners is known for hospitality-led developments across South Florida, including the Four Seasons at The Surf Club.
In addition to the residential program, plans call for the inclusion of a luxury hotel, with the development expected to introduce a globally recognized international hotel brand making its first flagship appearance in Miami. Further details regarding the hotel brand and program have not yet been released.
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The tower is composed of two primary volumes and articulated by fluted ceramic columns that extend the full height of the building. Continuous terraces wrap the structure, while white-colored ceramic columns define the façade. A brass-colored entrance pavilion and matching window mullions provide contrast at the ground level and along the glazed elevations.
The project is located within the Miami Design District, a walkable neighborhood known for its concentration of contemporary art galleries, luxury retail, dining destinations, and public art installations. The district’s central location provides direct access to Miami International Airport, Brickell, Wynwood, and Miami Beach.
Sales and marketing for the development will be handled exclusively by Corcoran Sunshine Marketing Group. A dedicated sales gallery is planned to open within the Miami Design District, with official sales expected to launch in February.
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Love this firm and the work they do. Glad Miami is getting world class architects to design towers.
Couldn’t agree more!
Beautiful, light colored building that looks like Miami. Are we finally getting away from gray and black? Hope so. There’s something about the airy, soaring design that seems like a modern take on retro. Perfect location in the Design District.
I wish it had some articulation to accent the Neo-Art Deco feel, but I can’t complain when it’s not another glass box over a parking garage.
How to understand a building with just a few renders? Barely understand the architecture… A hotel… A condo… But how it would relate with the district? Would it keep the strolling dynamic of the district? Keep an interesting public-private boundary? What happened where the towers meet the podium? Will it’s program be a cookie cutter miami silo of amenities or take a risk to be something else? I hope to architecture delivers”