Four Seasons Hotel Miami

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The Four Seasons Hotel in Miami
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The Four Seasons Hotel Miami in Miami, Florida is the tallest building in the United States south of Atlanta, Georgia and the tallest building in Florida and Miami, at a height of 794 ft (242 m), with 72 floors. It is also the tallest residential building south of New York City.

The building was planned by Bermello, Ajamil & Partners, Inc. in coordination with design architects Gary Edward Handel & Associates. Post-tensioning reinforcement of the structure was supplied and engineered by Suncoast Post-Tension. Construction began in 2000 and the building officially opened on October 1, 2003.

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The building contains 72 floors, making it the tallest building in Florida, and the tallest residential building south of New York.
The reinforced concrete structure incorporates core shear walls, post-tensioned slabs and perimeter columns. Spans between columns reach 40 feet (12 m).
The tower has 230,000 square feet (21,000 m²) of Class A office space from floors 2 to 12. They are mostly occupied by HSBC Bank USA.
There are two lobbies on the first and seventh floor. The first floor lobby is for the office part of the tower and the seventh floor lobby is for the rest of the tower, which contains the hotel and condominiums.
The first floor entrance lobby features a 24 meter (80 ft) waterfall.
Part of the seventh floor lobby is a two acre (8,000 m²) outdoor pool terrace, situated atop the six floor, 934 space parking garage.
The Four Seasons Hotel occupies floors 8 to 40. It contains 221 rooms and 84 condo/hotel units. The condo/hotel units range from 611 to 2,062 square feet (57 to 192 m²) and range in price from $480,000 to $1,450,000.
186 luxury condominiums occupy floors 40 to 72. They range from 1,114 to 6,499 square feet (103 to 604 m²) and range in price from $695,000 to $6,200,000.
The tower contains 10,600 square feet (985 m²) of retail space.
Total construction costs were 379 million US dollars.
The tower contains over 1.8 million square feet (167,000 m²) of office space
A 40,000 square foot (3,700 m²) Sports Club/LA Miami also occupies the tower.
The Four Seasons is a five-star property. The hotel is considered to be the most expensive in Florida.