{"id":386623,"date":"2026-09-01T00:02:14","date_gmt":"2026-09-01T00:02:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/386623\/"},"modified":"2026-09-01T00:02:14","modified_gmt":"2026-09-01T00:02:14","slug":"nyt-looks-at-miamis-supertall-building-boom-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/386623\/","title":{"rendered":"NYT looks at Miami&#8217;s (super)tall building boom | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a name=\"entry\" id=\"EntryAnchor\">anchor<\/a>&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"floatbox\" href=\"https:\/\/archinect.gumlet.io\/uploads\/f0\/f0cebb555e134ae667e80e7717d01050.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat\" title=\"High-rises under construction near Freedom Tower, Miami&#039;s first skyscraper when it was completed in 1925. The city is now beginning to go supertall. Image courtesy Nicholas Fuentes\/Unsplash.\" data-size=\"2186x3000\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/f0cebb555e134ae667e80e7717d01050.jpg\" border=\"0\" class=\"Cover\" title=\"High-rises under construction near Freedom Tower, Miami's first skyscraper when it was completed in 1925. The city is now beginning to go supertall. Image courtesy Nicholas Fuentes\/Unsplash.\" alt=\"High-rises under construction near Freedom Tower, Miami's first skyscraper when it was completed in 1925. The city is now beginning to go supertall. Image courtesy Nicholas Fuentes\/Unsplash.\" width=\"514\" height=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>High-rises under construction near Freedom Tower, Miami&#8217;s first skyscraper when it was completed in 1925. The city is now beginning to go supertall. Image courtesy Nicholas Fuentes\/Unsplash.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tIn July, Cipriani Residences, in the Brickell neighborhood, became the tallest building in Miami and the tallest residential building south of New York City. [&#8230;] Supertalls (skyscrapers over 984 feet) and megatalls (buildings taller than 1,968 feet) are still relatively rare engineering anomalies. Currently, megatalls exist only in Asia and the Middle East.<\/p>\n<p>Miami\u2019s entry into this elite tier signals a new era for the city.&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/08\/11\/realestate\/miami-skyscrapers-supertalls-development.html?unlocked_article_code=1.9lA.Iz3N.2p6N7TI4jtkL&amp;smid=url-share\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The New York Times<\/a>&#13;\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p>A recent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/08\/11\/realestate\/miami-skyscrapers-supertalls-development.html?unlocked_article_code=1.9lA.Iz3N.2p6N7TI4jtkL&amp;smid=url-share\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">NYT piece<\/a>\u00a0explains Miami&#8217;s supercharged aspirations to fill its skyline with ever-taller buildings, including the recently topped-out 950-foot Cipriani Residences Miami, <a href=\"https:\/\/archinect.com\/news\/article\/150258672\/100-story-waldorf-astoria-skyscraper-will-be-miami-s-first-supertall-tower\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Waldorf Astoria Residences<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/archinect.com\/news\/article\/150034701\/aston-martin-breaks-ground-on-their-first-luxury-apartment-tower-in-miami\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Aston Martin Residences<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/archinect.com\/news\/article\/150527164\/carlos-ott-and-cube-3-design-miami-supertall-with-tapered-massing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Delano Residences<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/archinect.com\/news\/article\/150418481\/shop-designs-first-u-s-real-estate-tower-for-mercedes-benz-in-miami\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Mercedes-Benz Residences<\/a>, Miami Riverbridge, Dolce &amp; Gabbana, Okan Tower, One Bayfront, <a href=\"https:\/\/archinect.com\/news\/article\/150443811\/foster-partners-to-design-54-story-mixed-use-skyscraper-in-miami\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Citadel&#8217;s new HQ<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/archinect.com\/news\/article\/150534408\/trump-s-presidential-library-concept-looks-exactly-what-you-think-it-would-look-like\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Trump&#8217;s presidential &#8216;library&#8217; hotel proposal<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The authors don&#8217;t fail to include the enormous geological and meteorological concerns that South Florida&#8217;s challenging ground composition and hurricane-prone climate pose for this new crop of real estate development, with <a href=\"https:\/\/archinect.com\/features\/article\/150277717\/a-house-of-cards-the-miami-condo-collapse-exposes-a-dehumanized-mindset-in-the-built-environment\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">sinking buildings<\/a> described in an <a href=\"https:\/\/archinect.com\/news\/article\/150458487\/university-of-miami-scientists-find-35-buildings-sinking-along-city-s-coastline\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">alarming recent University of Miami study<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<br clear=\"all\" \/>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\t\tSimilar articles on Archinect that may interest you&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t&#13;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; 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