Edgewater, United States · Fluid Contemporary — Wellness Resort Tower
Anantara Resort & Residences Miami
Internal preview — photography pending licensing clearance from the developer
“Edgewater gets its first Anantara, and the brand gets its US debut — a helipad, a Thai-rooted wellness floor, and a bayfront site at the Design District's edge.”
Anantara Resort & Residences marks the hospitality brand's first property in North America — a 50-story tower on a 1.6-acre Biscayne Bay site in Edgewater, developed by One Thousand Group in partnership with Minor Hotels. Kohn Pedersen Fox leads design architecture with ODP Architecture & Design as architect of record, and Patricia Urquiola designing interiors. The building mixes roughly 100 branded condominium residences with 120 resort residences available for a managed rental program, alongside hotel suites operated by Anantara. Reported unit and hotel-key counts vary across sources as the project has evolved from its earlier incarnation as the office tower Tower 36, and pricing has not yet been published — ONE Sotheby's International Realty was appointed exclusive sales firm in June 2026, with sales not yet launched as of this writing. Completion is targeted for 2030.
Amenities
Vitality & Longevity Center
A wellness floor built around Anantara's Thai-inspired healing traditions, with dedicated movement, nutrition, and recovery programming.
Rooftop Helipad & Heli-Lounge
A signature One Thousand Group amenity (also found at One Thousand Museum) offering direct helicopter access to Palm Beach, the Bahamas, and the Florida Keys.
Garden & Sculpture Court
A landscaped reflecting-pool courtyard with sculpture, connecting the lobby to the bayfront pool deck.
The Tower
Who built it, who designed it, and what kind of building it actually is.
- Architect
- Kohn Pedersen Fox (KPF) (design architect); ODP Architecture & Design (architect of record)
- Developer
- One Thousand Group, in partnership with Minor Hotels
- Interior Designer
- Patricia Urquiola
- The Setup
- Anantara's first North American property — a 50-story bayfront resort-and-residence tower at the meeting point of Edgewater, the Design District, and Wynwood, developed by One Thousand Group (the firm behind the Zaha Hadid-designed One Thousand Museum) in partnership with Bangkok-based Minor Hotels, Anantara's parent company. The site was previously planned as the office tower Tower 36 before being rebranded for the Anantara launch.
One Thousand Group, led by Kevin Venger, Louis Birdman, and Michael Konig, is best known for One Thousand Museum, the Zaha Hadid-designed Edgewater-adjacent tower; Anantara Resort & Residences is the firm's first hospitality-branded partnership, developed alongside Minor Hotels, Anantara's Bangkok-based parent company.
Gallery
In the Neighborhood
A curated look at what’s within easy reach of Anantara Resort & Residences Miami.
- Midtown Miami restaurants
- Design District dining
The Honest Take
In favor
- A genuine brand-first — Anantara's debut in North America, developed with its own Minor Hotels parent company rather than a third-party licensing deal
- Kohn Pedersen Fox as design architect, with a real, visually distinctive fluid facade confirmed through the developer's own renderings
- A real rooftop helipad amenity precedented by One Thousand Group's own One Thousand Museum, not just a marketing claim
- A genuinely differentiated wellness concept — a Thai-rooted Vitality & Longevity Center rather than a generic spa
Worth weighing
- Still pre-development — sales had not launched as of mid-2026, with no groundbreaking date or construction financing publicly reported
- No pricing, floor plans, or confirmed unit mix are published; reported unit and hotel-key counts vary across press sources
- The site's only formally approved scheme on record is a 47-story, 635-foot office tower — the marketed 50-story, 650-foot resort tower reflects a newer, not-yet-fully-entitled plan
- The project has already changed names and uses once (from the office tower Tower 36), which carries some execution risk over a multi-year timeline
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