After two decades of becoming one of the world's most influential districts, Miami Design District is getting its first private residential address — and it arrives carrying the name of one of Paris's most storied hospitality brands. Fouquet's Hotel and Residences, Miami Design District marks the only Florida project currently underway by David Chipperfield Architects, the practice founded by Pritzker Prize winning architect Sir David Chipperfield. The landmark development will comprise a 25-story, 143-unit residential tower alongside a 12-story, 85-key Fouquet's Hotel on a nearly two-acre site at 39 NE 39th Street, introducing a new standard of luxury living and hospitality to the neighborhood.
Inside the 25-story tower, one- to four-bedroom residences open through floor-to-ceiling windows framed by custom pale-champagne mullions, drawing in the layered light of Miami Design District through bespoke ceramic exterior columns. Residents step into more than 40,000 square feet of residential amenities — a rooftop pool with shaded seating, a salon suite for on-demand a la carte services, a fitness center with private training studio, a Serenity Lounge, a golf simulator and media room, an entertaining suite with catering kitchen, and a full spa carrying cold plunge, sauna, steam room, and Jacuzzi. The signature Fouquet's hotel services — housekeeping, pantry stocking, event planning, chauffeur — extend to the residences, alongside a private landscaped motor court, lobby lounge, and 24-hour concierge.
Chipperfield's signature architectural clarity — restraint expressed through the ceramic-clad columns and the careful framing of light is coupled with interiors by Paris-based RDAI, the studio behind the world's Hermès flagships, and landscape architecture by Perry Guillot. The pairing creates a dialogue between Chipperfield's quiet modernism and the warmer, more tactile sophistication of the Fouquet's identity. The hotel's food and beverage program will run across five distinct dining concepts drawn from the Barrière Collection's culinary portfolio, marking Fouquet's debut not only in Miami but as Miami Design District's first official hotel of any flag.
For the neighborhood, the arrival of Fouquet's is a defining cultural anchor. Miami Design District has spent the past two decades reshaping itself into one of Miami's most visionary precincts — an immersive world of contemporary art galleries, celebrated dining, luxury boutiques, public art installations, and avant-garde architecture — but until now, no one has lived there. For Fouquet's, Miami marks the brand's second U.S. hotel following Fouquet's New York in 2022 and joins a global portfolio anchored by the founding 1899 flagship on Paris's Champs-Élysées, with sister properties in Saint-Barth and Courchevel.
The development is being led by Miami Design District Associates — the group instrumental in shaping the neighborhood itself — alongside Raycliff Capital, Constellation Hotels Holding Ltd, and Fort Partners, the South Florida luxury hospitality developer whose previous flagship is the Four Seasons Hotel and Residences at The Surf Club in Surfside. Sales are being handled by Corcoran Sunshine Marketing Group, with one- to four-bedroom residences priced from $1.8 million.
With residences now selling and the project underway on the two-acre Design District site, Fouquet's Hotel and Residences becomes the neighborhood's first private address — and a defining new chapter in Miami's relationship with the European hospitality tradition.