The developers of Waldorf Astoria Residences Miami, planned as the city’s tallest residential tower at 100 stories, are launching sales, The Real Deal has learned.
The luxury project, at 300 Biscayne Boulevard, will be the highest skyscraper south of Manhattan at 1,049 feet tall, the developers said. Property Markets Group, Greybrook Realty Partners and Hilton are partnering on the tower.
— The Real Deal
The ambitious project first appeared on Archinect as 300 Biscayne back in 2017.
According to The Real Deal, Canada-based Uruguayan architect Carlos Ott designed the 1,049-foot-tall (320 meters) tower, and Sieger Suarez is the architect of record.
A Waldorf Astoria-branded condo doesn't come cheap though — units start at $1 million.
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These boxes on top of boxes are fugly. How come they can't settle on a design reminiscent of asian skyscrapers? Most of them are designed by american firms like AS GG
Looks like the Independent here in Austin, TX. Seems to be a fad.
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It's ugly.
Seen this in Indiana Jones, when the shadow of the tower development hits the Skyviews wheel in the center a giant sinkhole will open...swallowing both.
Carlos Ott eh, the bloke who won the Bastille competition because the jurors thought he was Meier ...
the design is pretty fun but it is more like an office tower not residential.
Then, to go so high with the square box form to further add wind resistance, I wonder if the architect has put into serious consideration on the decision making process with the fact that, Florida is the home to multiple tropical hurricanes and tornadoes where the evidence of them growing stronger and more destructive than ever.
Will this structure stand against the powerful wind force? Is the structural exterior resilient towards external forces such as large heavy objects being blown to hit directly it so no glasses will be broken and no concrete is chipped?
I believe the why the square blocks are being 'stacked' asymmetrically is not only for the aesthetics reason but to break the wind force, but to me, is it effective and safe enough to stand against the power of mother nature?
It'll be interesting to see how this tower "weathers" a Category 4 Hurricane. This design doesn't appear to factor very strong winds like many other supertalls do in other parts of the world.
It wouldn't be the tallest skyscraper south of Manhattan. That title goes to the 1121 foot (342m) Comcast Technology Center in Philadelphia. The Wilshire Grand Center in LA (1100 feet / 335m) and Salesforce Tower in SF also surpass this tower's proposed height.
Mr. Lachowicz, the towers you cite are technically and predominantly a number of longitudinal degrees west, not south, of Manhattan. ;-) Just sayin'....
Seeing as how Philly is an 75-90 minute drive away on I-95 South of NYC...
Brooklyn is also south of Manhattan and they're nearly done building 9 DeKalb Avenue (1066' tall).
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Miami , Boca , Palm Beaches , Jupiter homes and Condos are on fire , there are no homes or condos for sale .Every 5th car have New York or California license plates .Thanks to Mister Cuomo and Mister Nuisance
The criticism here completely ignores the amount of time, money and energy being put into a superlux project for development profit while millions of people have had their lives upended by the pandemic and the worst economy in decades.
In other words it misses the point entirely. These kinds of development celebrate and exacerbate the shitty state of this country.
Don't forget that the only way there will even be a Miami in 40 years is if the federal government dumps a bunch of all our money into artificially prolonging its viability as a city.
The other side of the coin is that millionaires will be spending... millions of dollars... on these, which keeps money flowing and not sitting in some off-shore investment or tax shelter. Yes, we have to address the peripheral issues you're talking around, but NOT building this won't solve any of them.
It looks ridiculous.
Hurricane Camille hit the Mississippi Gulf Coast with sustained winds of 175 miles an hour. The damage was massive.
That's how they came to this form, at first the blocks were piled up neatly in straight towers...
This was wonderful, too, until after it was built a structural engineering professor and his student questioned if it would be stable if a hurricane hit at an angle rather than perpendicular to one of the faces. Ooops. An extremely expensive reinforcing of the structure over many months was required.
Remeber Boston's Hancock tower?
yes. it's a fascinating story and reminder that at the leading edge, engineering is still not fully developed as a predictive tool. i expect in the next 30 years we'll see similar near failures in wood-engineered structures and environmental control systems. https://www.nytimes.com/1988/04/24/arts/architecture-view-a-novel-design-and-its-rescue-from-near-disaster.html
The student who discovered the flaw in the Citicorp building was Diane Hartley, an undergraduate, not graduate, student at Princeton. She never found out about the results of her warning until she saw a documentary several years later.
The silver lining is that the Citicorp "fix" is the subject of one of my all-time favorite pieces of long form journalism: https://uh.edu/ethicsinscience/Media/59Story.pdf
I have a term paper I wrote on professional ethics with this tower as the main object for discussion. I remember it being one of my better pieces of writing, but I wonder if I would think the same thing now if I dug it out and read it again.
stacks on stacks... good building for Miami
I remember my girder and panel building kits when I was a kid...pretty bad when a 13 year old can design a more appealing structure than a bunch of u-haul boxes stacked on one another.
it's not the designing that's the issue, it's the getting it built...
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