Set to be the first large-scale development of its kind in the Miami Design District, the scheme would see a 12-storey hotel and a 25-storey residential tower built with a central shaded garden created between.

Both towers feature white terracotta-clad columns, which support covered exterior ‘galleries’.

The proposed Miami Design Residences tower in 39th Street would provide 143 flats, while the hotel building would offer 85 luxury rooms.

The scheme has been drawn up for a development team including Miami real estate and development company Fort Partners, equity firm Raycliff Capital, Miami Design District Associates and global investment firm Constellation Hotels Holding.

Model for David Chipperfield’s planned Miami Design District residential and hotel project: David Chipperfield Architects

The luxury French hospitality brand Fouquet’s was recently announced as the future hotel operator, with completion scheduled for 2030.

David Chipperfield Architects said the design of the towers was intended to ‘reflect and respond to the changing light’ in Miami. The residential tower steps down in height to create a varied elevation, while the hotel features a ‘grand hotel form’ with stepped corners that ‘reference Miami’s heritage’.

The landscaped garden which would run in between the two tower blocks has been designed as a shaded public space featuring native trees, which also serves to ‘establish a strong spatial relationship with a planned office building’ set for a plot nearby to the hotel. The hotel and the new office building will form a gateway to the Miami Design District.

The buildings feature a similar internal organisation. A two-storey base contains retail and entrance lobbies and the third floor of each tower provides amenity spaces with landscaped terraces. The middle sections contain flats and hotel rooms respectively, while penthouses occupy the upper floors with swimming pools framed by pergolas featuring on the roof decks.

David Chipperfield Architects has a significant portfolio of US schemes, including the 32-storey part-hotel, part-apartment tower on Bryant Park in Midtown Manhattan, which completed in 2021.


Project data

Location Miami Design District
Client Fort Partners, Raycliff Capital, Dacra, Constellation
User Fouquet’s
Architect David Chipperfield Architects London
Project directors David Chipperfield, Billy Prendergast, Benito Blanco, Julia Loughlane, Matt Ball, Mattias Kunz
Project architect Ryan Butterfield
Executive architect Cube 3
Landscape architect Perry Guillot Inc.
Interior designer RDAI
Structural engineer McNamara Salvia
Civil engineer, Traffic Langan
Façade consultant De Simone
Services engineer MGE
Pool consultant STO
Acoustics Cerami Associates
Lighting consultant HLB
Fire and safety consultant SLS Consulting
LEED consultant SOCOTEC
Sustainability consultant Spinnaker
Gross floor area 56,000m2
Project initiated 2023
Completion due 2030
Visualisations MR.P