Star Island Waterfront Mansion Just Listed for $90 Million

Star Island is known for its exclusivity along with its custom mega-mansions and just released yesterday is the most expensive property ever listed on the Island at $90 million. If sold for the listing price, it will also be the most expensive sale on Star Island in front of a mansion that sold last month for $75 million.

Located at 27 Star Island, this waterfront mansion is sited on 40,000 square footage of east-facing water frontage. The expansive property includes 2 separate homes. The main home showcases 23,737 square feet of living space and was designed by Starchitect SAOTA and was constructed by Coastal.

This property features 6 bedrooms with 12 bathrooms. The most unique amenities of this home include the gym located on the water with a sauna and steam room, cold plunge, massage room, and hair salon. Soundproofing and chef’s kitchen with high-end appliances really makes this place spectacular.

For the wine connoisseur, you can enjoy the 1,400 bottle wine room that overlooks the exquisite kitchen. Enjoy views of the wraparound pool and cabana from the rooftop lounge. There is also a new boat dock and lift.

The second home is located at the front of the lot and enhabits the 20’s era with the 1924 Degarmo home that has been completely restored. The floors are the original but are restored Miami Dade Pine. The property was originally built by Walter De Garmo, a famous Miami architect in the early 1900’s. This home features 3 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms.

According to the MLS (multiple listing service), this property was rented at $400,000 monthly. No other information was provided. The seller is also unknown.

Star Island is a man-made island located in Miami Beach along Biscayne Bay. Made up of just a few dozen homes, Star Island is one of the most coveted and exclusive islands in South Florida. Star Island is within close proximity to Hibiscus Island, the Venetian Islands, and Palm Island. Each waterfront lot offers at least 40,000 square feet of unobstructed water views and frontage.

Star Island can be accessed through one bridge with a guardhouse entrance. A large number of celebrities live or have owned on Star Island. Some notables include Gloria Estefan, P. Diddy, Lea Black from the Real Housewives of Miami, and Jennifer Lopez.

Zaha Hadid’s Personal Beachfront Residence To Come Back To Market

After nearly a year on the market, Zaha Hadid’s customized home in South Beach’s W Hotel is going to be re-listed with an enormous price reduction. It had been listed after her sudden and untimely death in the Spring of 2016 for $10 million, but there were no takers.

It hasn’t officially been re-listed yet, but the Wall Street Journal has reported that it will be coming back on the market at $6.5 million, a 35% reduction from the original price. Neither price included the furnishings, but most pieces could be negotiated separately through her estate trustee. There are a few pieces of artwork/exceptionally unique pieces that the estate prefers to hold on to.

The Pritzker Prize-winning starchitect purchased two beachfront units at the W, which is located between The Setai and Faena House at 22nd Street on Miami Beach, in 2010 for $2,785,000. She then combined them and added her unmistakable personal touch.

While I imagine there will be a new set of photos unveiled any day now, let’s have a peek at the listing photos from last year..

Inside One Thousand Museum by Zaha Hadid: A Construction Tour

Now that the vertical construction is nearly completed and the fully finished (albeit not furnished) model is open, we were invited for a hard hat tour of Zaha Hadid’s One Thousand Museum in Downtown Miami. After touring the finished model on level 17, which is a 4 bedroom plan that occupies half of the floor, we were also able to preview the views from the 50th floor. On this level, the apartments are 10,000+ square foot full-floor layouts but are still too much of a construction site to be able to preview the finishes.

The project is currently 60% sold, with remaining opportunities in the duplex town homes from $12 million, half floor residences with 4 bedrooms plus staff quarters for $5.5 million to $7.5 million, full-floor residences from $18 million and the penthouse, which has its own helipad for $49 million.

Check out our video to see the views and finishes for yourself!

Grove at Grand Bay is Done, Receives Temporary Certificate of Occupancy

Grove at Grand Bay seen from Park Grove. By Sean McCaughan.

The two twisting towers known as Grove at Grand Bay, which in their short lives have already become iconic Coconut Grove landmarks, have received their temporary certificate of occupancy, with closings beginning this week. They were originally going to be Danish architect Bjarke Ingels’ first completed project in the Americas, but due to construction delays were beaten out by Via  57 West in New York. The buildings have been entirely sold out for a while, except for the last remaining penthouse, a $28 million unit which developer David Martin had originally intended to keep for himself. According to Martin, who spoke to Real Deal, interior build-outs should be completed within three months, with move-ins expected in the next four to six.

Flying Over Richard Meier’s Surf Club Four Seasons in a Drone

The combo historic and contemporary The Surf Club Four Seasons is nearing completion in the heart of Surfside since its topping-off over a year ago. As you can see in our latest drone video, the new condominium and hotel towers, which were designed by Kobi Karp Architecture & Interior Design in collaboration with starchitect Richard Meier, have been entirely glazed, while significant exterior and landscaping work remains on the lower floors as well as the exterior of the historic, Russell Pancoast-designed private club structure at the heart of the project. Meanwhile, across A1A, the inland side of the project (the low-rise contemporary block) appears virtually complete. The whole thing should be done this winter.

The project will include an 80 room Four Seasons Hotel as well as two 12-story residential towers, which Real Deal reported in June were 80% sold out. Unit prices range from $3.4 million to $18 million, and top out at more than 7,000 square feet in size. Meanwhile, Fort Partners, the developer, is obviously happy with its starchitect. They’ve kept Meier on to design the two residential towers they have proposed to build over the Miami Beach Marina in South Beach.

Herzog & de Meuron’s Jade Signature is Really Far Along

Construction at Jade Signature, designed by starchitects Herzog & de Meuron, is looking really far along from this photo posted to the project’s Facebook page on May 23rd. Count for yourself, but construction has at least reached the halfway point of the luxury condominium tower’s full 57 stories. And that’s including the 50-foot-deep underground parking garage. Meanwhile, the project has dropped a flood of (mostly) new renderings, showing off its penthouse and unit interiors, and some additional common spaces. Check them all out, below.

Starchitect Renzo Piano To Introduce Eighty Seven Park In Miami Beach

Miami Beach is getting another starchitect-designed condo building, this time by Pritzker Prize winning Renzo Piano. Eighty Seven Park will be the first project in South Florida to be designed by the famed architect and is located at 87th and Collins on the last piece of land north of North Shore Park at the limit of the city of Miami Beach. The 18-story glass tower will feature oblong floors and wraparound balconies with ocean views. In total, the building will offer 68 residences varying in size from 1,400 to 7,000 square feet.

“The idea behind the site is to enhance the presence of the green spaces in the park by extending trees to the northern limit of the city of Miami Beach,” said a statement from Renzo Piano Building Workshop. The building will be surrounded by a reflection pool and private gardens. Between the residences and the beach will be two swimming pools surrounded by sundecks and a walking path to the shoreline.

Interiors are being designed by Rena Dumas Architecture Interieure from Paris and will feature American oak and Italian stone fittings with orchids, Bonsai trees and cacti. An in-house botanist will maintain the year-round floral display, extending the serene natural feeling from the gardens indoors.

Renzo Piano will join Rem Koolhaas, Zaha Hadid, and Bjarke Ingels with their starchitect-designed projects over the upcoming years. In addition to being the first project for Mr. Piano in South Florida, Eighty Seven Park will also be his first residential building in the United States. Previously, the firm has completed the 95 story Shard, the tallest building in the European Union that is often referred to as London Bridge Tower as well as the 52 story New York Times Building in Midtown Manhattan.