Aside from New York City and Chicago, Miami is another American city that filled with tons of skyscrapers, in terms of the buildings with heights of above 150 meters, Miami has 43, ranking 3rd in United States in this respect, only after New York and Chicago.
As for supertalls which is the main subject to discuss for this post, though no supertall has been built in the city currently, Miami is not lacking for supertall proposals. As early as in 2007 a two-building complex called Empire World Towers had been proposed for the city, it was designed to be 312 meters or 1022 feet tall, however that project had been cancelled as it cannot be approved, after that also in 2007 another supertall One Bayfront Plaza was proposed, it is the first supertall skyscraper got approved in the city, however the tower still hasn't got built till today, not cancelled as well, it has gone through several changes in design and height. Meanwhile, many other proposals for supertall came out one after the other.
Below is a list of those proposals for supertall skyscrapers to be built in Miami, some buildings among them were not supertalls when they were first proposed, therefore ''proposed year'' listed below are all based on the year when the building bumped into supertall status, not the year when the building was first proposed. Never built skyscrapers like Miapolis are not included in the list.
1. MiamiCentral One
Standard height: 341 m (1,120 ft)
Proposed year: 2014
Estimated top out year: unknown
Architect: Skidmore, Owings & Merrill and Zyscovich Architects
Developer: All Aboard Florida
2. CCCC Miami
Standard height: 326 meters (1069ft)
Proposed year: 2015 Estimated top out year: unknown
Architect: Arquitectonica Developer: American Da Tang Group
3. Skyrise Miami
Standard height: 318 meters (1045ft)
Roof height: 318 meters
Proposed year: 2013
Estimated top out year: ∼2018
Architect: Arquitectonica
Developer: Jeff Berkowitz
4. 1201 Brickell Bay Drive
Standard height: 318.2 m (1,044 ft)
Proposed year: 2016 Estimated top out year: unknown
Architect: unknown Developer: Florida East Coast Realty and Tibor Hollo; Corigin Real Estate Group and Frank McCourt
Also known as Villa Magna
5. 300 Biscayne
Standard height: 317 meters (1,041 ft)
Proposed year: 2015 Estimated top out year: unknown
Architect: Arquitectonica Developer: Property Markets Group
6. One Brickell City Center
Standard height: 317 meters (1,040 ft)
Roof height: 317 m
Proposed year: 2013
Estimated top out year: unknown
Architect: Arquitectonica
Developer: Swire Properties
7. One Bayfront Plaza
Standard height: 306 meters (1,005 ft)
Proposed year: 2006
Estimated top out year: ∼2019
Architect: Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates
Developer: Florida East Coast Realty
8. Sky Plaza West Tower
Standard height: 305 meters (1001ft)
Proposed year: 2015 Estimated top out year: unknown
Architect: unknown Developer: Flagler 251 Inc.
As shown above, the amount of these proposals even surpass Chicago and some Chinese cities, reaching 8 as of now, it is very rare for a American city except of New York City. However the problem is, that none of these supertall towers has ever get into real construction phase, at most preparation, let alone to be built, the city's first supertall approved known as One Bayfront Plaza was proposed 10 years ago, the construction seems still unlikely to get started in a short time, but now that it has been on site preparation, seems things are getting better, let's wait for more progress.
One of the major factors of this problem is the provisions made by FAA. Given that the location of Miami International Airport being too close to the downtown, plus the majority of flight paths of the city are direct above the downtown area, FAA makes the height limit for Miami more strict than other cities, while in some cases a height of 2000-foot is fine, such as Chicago Spire in Chicago, where both airport and flight paths are further away from downtown.
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