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Four Seasons Hotel Miami
Miami, Florida, United States · Four Seasons · High Luxury
At 781 feet and seventy stories on Brickell Avenue, Four Seasons Hotel and Tower was the tallest building in Miami and Florida from its 2003 opening until Panorama Tower passed it in 2017. Gary Handel and Bermello Ajamil designed the mixed-use skyscraper for hurricane winds, with the hotel on floors 7 to 36 above a two-acre seventh-floor pool terrace and Fernando Botero bronzes in the public spaces.
- 221 rooms
- Opened 2003
- Neighborhood: Brickell
- Rooms from 500 sq ft (46 m²)
- Architect: Pelli Clarke & Partners & Gary E. Handel and Associates & Brumello & Partners
- Interiors: Tara Bernerd & Partners & Frank Nicholson
About Four Seasons Hotel Miami
- A two-acre outdoor pool terrace sits on the seventh floor atop a six-level, 934-space parking garage, serving as the hotel lobby terrace.
- Three Fernando Botero bronze sculptures command the entrance and seventh-floor lobby, scaled to the tower's mixed-use ambitions.
- Dense silica-fume concrete and post-tensioned steel were engineered so the $379 million tower could withstand hurricane-force winds.
- The site sits on land once part of Julia Tuttle's pioneer estate, the entrepreneur who persuaded Henry Flagler to extend the railroad to Miami in 1896.
- Entry-level rooms start at 500 sq ft (46 m²).
History
Construction began on the 70-story tower at 1441 Brickell Avenue in 2000, and when Four Seasons Hotel Miami opened in October 2003, it immediately claimed the title of the tallest building in Florida — a distinction it held until the Panorama Tower surpassed it in 2017. The skyscraper was designed by Gary E. Handel and Associates in collaboration with Miami-based Bermello Ajamil and Partners, its facade wrapped in bands of light blue glass designed to evoke the point where ocean meets sky. Built with dense silica-fume concrete and post-tensioned reinforcement to withstand hurricane-force winds, the $379 million project became the city's most assertive entry into the global luxury hotel market at the dawn of the twenty-first century.
The land beneath it carries its own history. Brickell Avenue traces the eastern edge of what was once the private estate of Julia Tuttle, the Cleveland-born entrepreneur who arrived in Miami in 1891 and became the force that drew Henry Flagler's Florida East Coast Railway to the city in 1896. Without Tuttle's persuasion — she reportedly sent Flagler fresh orange blossoms after a freeze to prove Miami's climate was different from the rest of Florida — the railroad might never have extended south of Palm Beach, and the city's development would have unfolded on a completely different timeline. Brickell Avenue grew on the back of that railroad connection, evolving from pioneer estate land into Miami's financial corridor over the following century.
The hotel occupies the lower floors of a mixed-use tower that also contains seven floors of Class A office space, 186 condominium residences, and a 40,000-square-foot fitness facility — one of the first true urban mixed-use luxury towers in Miami's history. Tara Bernerd's interiors deploy mid-century elegance filtered through Miami's particular palette of tropical light and Biscayne Bay blues. The hotel's signature feature is its seventh-floor pool deck: a full acre of tropical gardens, pools, and terraces suspended above the city, with Edge Steak and Bar's terrace cantilevering over the view toward the Bay. Three Fernando Botero bronze sculptures command the hotel's public spaces, their monumental scale matched to the tower's ambitions.
The setting
Four Seasons Hotel Miami rises above 1435 Brickell Avenue on land whose connection to Miami's founding is direct: the Brickells established their trading post at the Miami River in 1871, and by the 1920s their avenue had become 'Millionaire's Row,' lined with winter estates of owners including Louis Comfort Tiffany. Brickell later evolved into the financial capital of Latin America. Vizcaya Museum and Gardens is twelve minutes by transit, as is Bayfront Park; Bayside Marketplace is seventeen minutes. The hotel's Brickell Avenue address situates it at the nexus of Miami's financial elite and a bayfront cultural campus of genuine international stature. Overlooks Biscayne Bay is 1.
Restaurants and bars
- NUNA — Restaurant · Peruvian-Japanese Nikkei · Chef Jaime Pesaque
- Edge Brasserie — Restaurant · French brasserie · Chef Edouard Deplus
- Bahia — Poolside · Northern Mediterranean / Latin fusion
Experiences
- Equinox group fitness classes — Complimentary access to the fitness centre offering Equinox's signature group classes such as Yoga, Pilates, Cycling and High-Intensity Boxing.
- Sunrise Poolside Yoga — Sunrise Poolside Yoga every Saturday morning.
- Off-site sports — Tennis, golf and boating arranged near the hotel.
- Brickell and Miami sightseeing — Brickell's Bayfront Parks, Villa Vizcaya Gardens and Museums, Wynwood, The Design District and Perez Art Museum Miami are within easy reach.
Amenities
- 7th-floor outdoor pool terrace with city and bay views
- Full-service spa
- Equinox-managed fitness center
- 30,000+ sq ft meeting space
- 24-hour room service
- Hot tub
- Kids' club
- Pet-friendly
Awards
- AAA Four Diamond (2026)
- Forbes Travel Guide Four-Star (2026)
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