The Delmore vs Rivage: Collins Avenue Oceanfront Comparison 2026

Side-by-Side Comparison

The Delmore figures from Florida YIMBY and The Real Deal coverage of the DAMAC and Zaha Hadid Architects Surfside project. Rivage figures from public developer and listing data. All prices and dates are developer estimates and subject to change. Contact us for current specifications.

Price and Scale

These two pages sit more than $8 million apart at the entry point, and that gap is the whole story. The Delmore opens at $15 million and averages $35 to $40 million per The Real Deal, but for that you get a fully furnished four- to five-bedroom Zaha Hadid Architects residence in a 37-home building. You are not buying square footage at the lowest price, you are buying a furnished, finished home in one of only 37 units the firm will ever deliver on this parcel. Rivage opens at $7 million for a 3,284 square foot home and runs up to roughly 6,655 square feet, across 61 residences. Buyers ask me which is "more boutique," and the honest answer is that both are small for the ocean: the real split is turnkey-and-furnished at The Delmore versus larger raw floor plates you finish your way at Rivage. The Delmore concentrates dollars into furnishing and design pedigree; Rivage concentrates them into floor area.

Developer and Design

The two projects sit on opposite ends of the design-versus-delivery spectrum. The Delmore is developed by DAMAC International, with Zaha Hadid Architects designing both the building and the furnished interiors and ODP Architecture & Design as architect of record. That is the unusual part: the same office that shaped the exterior also signs the furniture and finishes, so the home arrives as one coherent Zaha Hadid object. Rivage is developed by Related Group with Two Roads Development, two names with long South Florida track records, and architecture by SOM (Skidmore, Owings & Merrill) with interiors by Rottet Studio and landscape by Enea Garden Design. Rottet's delivered finishes at Rivage include 10-foot ceilings, terraces up to 12 feet deep, travertine baths, and Sub-Zero and Wolf kitchens. So the design contrast is not pedigree versus no pedigree. It is a single-author sculptural statement at The Delmore against a deep-bench team building a deliver-now tower at Rivage.

Delivery Timeline

This is the cleanest separation between the two. Rivage targets completion in 2026, so its finishes are not aspirational renderings, they are being delivered, and a buyer can plan a near-term move-in. The Delmore is at the opposite end of the cycle: DAMAC soft-launched sales in January 2025, plans to relaunch sales toward the end of 2026, and anticipates completion in 2029. So a Rivage buyer is choosing a building they can occupy soon, while a Delmore buyer is committing early to a 2029 home and accepting a roughly three-year horizon in exchange for first pick of a 37-unit building. Pre-construction delivery dates are developer estimates and can shift during the construction cycle, and the gap here is years, not months.

Neighborhood: Surfside vs Bal Harbour

The two addresses are roughly a mile and a half apart on Collins, but they are different micro-markets. The Delmore at 8777 Collins is in Surfside, a low-rise, residential beach town where this 1.8-acre parcel carries real weight: it is the former Champlain Towers South site, and DAMAC and Zaha Hadid Architects are rebuilding it as a single 37-residence building. Rivage at 10245 Collins is in Bal Harbour, the retail-anchored village known for its shops, and its developer calls the parcel the last three oceanfront acres left in the village. So both pitch scarcity, but they mean different things by it: a one-of-37 furnished building on a rebuilt Surfside lot versus the final new-construction oceanfront site in Bal Harbour. Either way, these are two of the most established oceanfront enclaves in Miami-Dade.

Who Should Pick Which

Pick The Delmore if you want a furnished, move-in-ready Zaha Hadid Architects home in a one-of-37 Surfside building and the higher entry and 2029 timeline work for you. You are paying for design authorship and turnkey delivery, not raw square footage. Pick Rivage if you want larger floor plates from 3,284 square feet, the freedom to finish them, and a building you can occupy in 2026 from a $7 million entry. The shorthand I give buyers: The Delmore is the furnished art-object you commit to early; Rivage is the larger, finish-it-your-way home you can use sooner. Both are direct Collins Avenue oceanfront, which is the asset that holds value here.

"The real choice between these two is not price, it is furnished-and-finished versus larger-and-sooner. The Delmore is a furnished 37-unit Zaha Hadid building completing 2029; Rivage is a 61-unit SOM tower with larger floor plates delivering 2026. I tell buyers to decide whether they want a turnkey art-object they wait for, or a bigger home they finish and use now."Gerardo Gonzalez, Licensed Real Estate Agent at Compass

My Recommendation

If you want a furnished, single-author Zaha Hadid Architects residence and you can wait until 2029, The Delmore is the rarer asset, one of only 37 homes on a rebuilt Surfside parcel, and that scarcity is real. If you want to be on Bal Harbour oceanfront sooner, in a larger 3,284-square-foot-and-up home you finish to taste, with a $7 million entry and 2026 delivery, Rivage is the practical pick. The furnished-versus-larger and 2029-versus-2026 splits are the two decisions that actually matter here; price follows from them. Read the full pages for each: The Delmore Surfside and Rivage Bal Harbour. Then contact me and I will pull the current price sheets and run a side-by-side on the specific units you are weighing. I represent buyers on both, so my read stays on your side of the table.