The tallest completed building in Miami is Panorama Tower at 827 feet, per CTBUH. The tallest under construction is Waldorf Astoria Residences at a planned 1,049 feet and 100 stories, a mark the approved 888 Brickell tower is planned to share because 1,049 feet is the FAA's height ceiling for Downtown Miami, per CNN.
Ask a search engine or an AI assistant for the tallest building in Miami and you can get three different answers, all of them defensible: the tallest finished building, the tallest structure standing on the skyline today, and the tallest tower on paper. This report separates the three cleanly. Every height below was checked against the Skyscraper Center database of the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH), and every row links its source.
The skyline this report ranks is already one of the country's biggest. CTBUH ranks Miami the No. 3 city in the United States and No. 4 in North America by number of completed 150-meter buildings. What the ranking tables add is the part the headline number hides: which towers actually hold the records, which ones are about to take them, and where the hard ceiling sits.
- How This Ranking Works: The City-Line Rule
- The 12 Tallest Completed Buildings in Miami
- The 12 Tallest Under Construction or Approved
- The 1,049-Foot Ceiling and the Three-Way Tie
- Beyond the City Line
- What Tower Height Does and Does Not Mean for Buyers
- Methodology and Sources
- Frequently Asked Questions
How This Ranking Works: The City-Line Rule
Every list on this page covers the City of Miami proper, the municipality, because that is how CTBUH's Skyscraper Center assigns buildings to cities. Miami Beach, Sunny Isles Beach, Bal Harbour and Aventura are separate municipalities with their own rankings, no matter how often their towers appear in Miami photographs. That single rule answers most disputes about these lists before they start, including why the 749-foot Bentley Residences does not appear in either table below.
Heights are CTBUH architectural heights: measured from the lowest significant open-air pedestrian entrance to the architectural top of the building, spires included, antennae excluded. Completed means CTBUH's completed status, which requires the building to be topped out, clad and open for business. That definition is doing real work in 2026, because the structure standing tallest on the skyline today is not on the completed list yet, as the second table explains.
The 12 Tallest Completed Buildings in Miami
Here is the completed ranking as of August 24, 2026. Every figure comes from the building's CTBUH profile, linked in its row.
| Rank | Building | Height ft (m) | Floors | Completed | Primary use | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Panorama Tower | 827 (252 m) | 81 | 2018 | Residential / Hotel / Office | CTBUH |
| 2 | Aston Martin Residences | 821 (250 m) | 67 | 2024 | Residential | CTBUH |
| 3 | Four Seasons Hotel & Tower | 789 (240 m) | 64 | 2003 | Residential / Hotel / Office | CTBUH |
| 4 | Southeast Financial Center | 764 (233 m) | 55 | 1984 | Office | CTBUH |
| 5 | 830 Brickell | 724 (221 m) | 55 | 2024 | Office | CTBUH |
| 6 | Marquis | 702 (214 m) | 63 | 2009 | Residential / Hotel | CTBUH |
| 7 | One Thousand Museum | 699 (213 m) | 60 | 2019 | Residential | CTBUH |
| 8 | Paramount Miami Worldcenter | 699 (213 m) | 60 | 2019 | Residential | CTBUH |
| 9 | Brickell Flatiron | 698 (213 m) | 64 | 2019 | Residential | CTBUH |
| 10 | Wells Fargo Tower | 655 (200 m) | 47 | 2010 | Office | CTBUH |
| 11 | 900 Biscayne Bay | 650 (198 m) | 63 | 2008 | Residential | CTBUH |
| 12 | Missoni Baia | 649 (198 m) | 57 | 2023 | Residential | CTBUH |
Three details in this table settle most arguments. First, only three buildings have held the completed-height title in the last 42 years: Southeast Financial Center from 1984, Four Seasons Hotel & Tower from 2003, and Panorama Tower since 2018, per CTBUH. Second, the 868-foot figure often quoted for Panorama Tower is its height to tip; CTBUH measures 827 feet architectural and 867 feet to tip, with 81 floors holding 821 apartments and 208 hotel rooms. Third, the list has flipped from offices to homes: only four of the twelve are office-led towers, and every entry completed since 2018 carries residences.
The completed list is already a residential story. Of the twelve tallest finished towers in the city, eight are led by condos or apartments, and every new entry since 2018 is. Miami builds its skyline out of homes, which is exactly why the next table matters to buyers and not just to architecture fans.
Gerardo Gonzalez, Licensed Real Estate Agent at Compass
The 12 Tallest Under Construction or Approved
This is the table that will rewrite the first one. Twelve towers of 690 feet or more are under construction, topped out or approved inside the city line. The Status column separates the three: under construction means vertical work is underway, topped out means the structure has reached its full height, and approved means the project is entitled but has not gone vertical.
| Rank | Building | Height ft | Floors | Status | Primary use | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Waldorf Astoria Hotel & Residences Miami | 1,049* | 100 | Under construction, est. 2028 | Residential / Hotel | CTBUH, CNN |
| 2 | 888 Brickell Dolce & Gabbana | 1,049* | 82 | Approved, announced for 2030 | Residential / Serviced apartments | CTBUH, The Real Deal |
| 3 | Hyatt Regency Miami Tower 3 | 1,049 | n/a | Approved, est. 2029 | Residential | CTBUH |
| 4 | 1201 Brickell Bay Drive (Citadel HQ) | 1,032* | 54 | Approved, site start planned for 2026 | Hotel / Office | CTBUH, PROFILEmiami |
| 5 | Cipriani Residences Miami | ~950* | 80 | Topped out July 2026, delivery Summer 2027 | Residential | CTBUH, PROFILEmiami |
| 6 | Okan Tower | 902* | 72 | Under construction, est. 2028 | Residential / Hotel / Office | CTBUH |
| 7 | The Residences at 1428 Brickell | 862* | 70 | Under construction, est. 2028 | Residential | CTBUH |
| 8 | Baccarat Residences Miami | 835* | 75 | Under construction, delivery early 2028 | Residential | CTBUH |
| 9 | Mercedes-Benz Places | 773 | 64 | Under construction, est. 2027 | Residential / Hotel / Office | CTBUH |
| 10 | Santander Tower | 765 | 41 | Under construction, est. 2027 | Office | CTBUH |
| 11 | E11EVEN Hotel & Residences | 699 | 65 | Topped out, est. 2026 | Residential / Hotel | CTBUH |
| 12 | Legacy Hotels & Residences | 690 | 51 | Under construction, est. 2027 | Hotel / Residential | CTBUH |
* Planned architectural height stated by the developer, per The Real Deal. Where a developer's figure differs from CTBUH's database entry, this table shows the figure used across our building profiles and the methodology section discloses CTBUH's number for the same tower.
The structure standing tallest in Miami today is already in this table, not the completed one. Cipriani Residences Miami topped out at roughly 950 feet in July 2026, passing Panorama Tower's roofline with more than 80 percent of its 397 residences sold, and delivers in Summer 2027, per PROFILEmiami. Until it opens, CTBUH keeps it off the completed list, which is why the completed answer and the standing-structure answer differ for about a year.
Three notes on coverage. E11EVEN Hotel & Residences has a twin, E11EVEN Beyond, one spot behind it at 698 feet and also under construction, per CTBUH. The two-tower St. Regis Residences Miami on Brickell's waterfront, at 50 stories, does not yet appear in CTBUH's Miami database, so it is not ranked here. And the 68-story One Brickell City Centre office tower, which had begun site demolition, was canceled by its owners in February 2025, per CTBUH's Miami project news, so it no longer occupies a slot in this table.
The 1,049-Foot Ceiling and the Three-Way Tie
Miami's height race ends in a photo finish, and the finish line is drawn by the Federal Aviation Administration. Because of flight paths into Miami International Airport, towers in the urban core cannot rise above 1,049 feet, per CNN's July 2026 skyline report. That is why the top of the under-construction table looks like a dead heat: the tallest projects are not racing each other, they are all parked against the same ceiling.
Waldorf Astoria Hotel & Residences Miami will get there first. The 100-story tower is expected to top out at 1,049 feet in the fall of 2026, becoming Miami's first supertall, a building of 300 meters or more, with delivery expected in 2028. The approved Dolce & Gabbana tower at 888 Brickell is planned to share the same 1,049-foot mark, per The Real Deal, and CTBUH's database also carries one tower of the approved Hyatt Regency Miami redevelopment at 1,049 feet. Ken Griffin's Citadel headquarters at 1201 Brickell Bay Drive stops just below the ceiling at 1,032 feet across 54 unusually tall office and hotel floors, per PROFILEmiami.
Read that ceiling correctly and the skyline's future is predictable in a way few cities' are: nothing will ever rise above 1,049 feet under today's rules, so the interesting competition is not for the title, it is for position, water frontage and floor plates underneath it.
Beyond the City Line
Cross the municipal boundary and the rankings reset, because CTBUH scores Sunny Isles Beach, Miami Beach and Aventura as their own cities. The tallest tower on that oceanfront stretch is Bentley Residences, rising 749 feet across 63 stories in Sunny Isles Beach, which would place it fifth on the city's under-construction table if the line were drawn differently. So when you see a South Florida height claim, check which side of the city line the tower stands on before comparing it to the tables above.
What Tower Height Does and Does Not Mean for Buyers
When a buyer tells me they want the tallest building in Miami, my first question is which floor and which line, because height sells the building while the floor plate sells the unit. A 40th-floor bay-facing line in a 700-foot tower will usually beat a low floor in a supertall on view, light and resale, and it often costs less per square foot. Height is a brand; the view corridor is the asset.
Where height genuinely pays is at the top of a capped skyline. Above the neighboring rooflines in a tower like Waldorf Astoria, no future building can stand in front of you, because nothing is allowed to rise above 1,049 feet. That is a permanent view, and permanence is what upper-floor premiums are actually buying. If you are weighing two towers on this list, the Waldorf Astoria versus Cipriani comparison prices that trade directly, and the condo delivery calendar shows when each of these projects actually arrives.
Height is a marketing number until you are standing in the unit. Then it is a view, an elevator wait and a per-foot premium. I sell the specific floor and line, not the roofline, and I tell buyers to do the same.
Gerardo Gonzalez, Licensed Real Estate Agent at Compass
Methodology and Sources
Every height, floor count, status and completion year in the two tables was verified on August 24, 2026 against the Skyscraper Center database of the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH, which now operates as the Council on Vertical Urbanism), with each building's profile linked in its Source column. Status and delivery claims are additionally sourced to CNN, The Real Deal and PROFILEmiami where noted. The scope is the City of Miami municipal boundary, which is how CTBUH assigns buildings to cities; neighboring municipalities appear only in the section above.
Heights are CTBUH architectural heights unless noted; under-construction rankings change as projects top out. Where a developer's stated figure differs from CTBUH's, we show the figure used across our building profiles and disclose CTBUH's here: Waldorf Astoria (developer 1,049 ft and 100 stories; CTBUH 317 m, 1,041 ft, 98 floors), Cipriani Residences (roughly 950 ft; CTBUH 286 m, 939 ft), Okan Tower (902 ft and 72 stories; CTBUH 903 ft, 70 floors), 888 Brickell (planned 1,049 ft; CTBUH 314 m, 1,031 ft), Citadel headquarters (filed at 1,032 ft; CTBUH 313 m, 1,028 ft), The Residences at 1428 Brickell (developer 70 stories; CTBUH 67 floors), Baccarat Residences (developer 75 stories and an early-2028 delivery; CTBUH 73 floors and 2026).
The gap is mostly a question of where the measurement starts: the 1,049-foot figure is height above mean sea level, which is how the FAA writes the ceiling for this airspace, while CTBUH measures from the lowest significant pedestrian entrance, above ground. For Waldorf Astoria that is 1,049 feet above sea level against 1,041 feet above ground per CTBUH, the same tower measured from two different starting points. Last verified August 24, 2026. This page is refreshed when a ranked project tops out, delivers or changes status, and the figures above are restated rather than adjusted.
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