Aman Residences Miami Beach

About the Project

Few addresses in Miami carry the weight of Aman Residences Miami Beach, a project that fuses one of the world's most storied hospitality philosophies with an oceanfront site of rare consequence on Collins Avenue. Aman was born on January 1, 1988, when Indonesian-born entrepreneur Adrian Zecha, unable to find a property in Phuket that matched his exacting vision of serene, understated luxury, decided to build one himself. The result was Amanpuri — meaning place of peace in Sanskrit — a forty-pavilion retreat scattered across a coconut grove above the Andaman Sea, conceived and financed largely with Zecha's own funds after banks declined to lend for a project with so few rooms. No advertising, no grand ballrooms, no corporate formula: Amanpuri offered exceptional space, exceptional quiet, and a staff-to-guest ratio that ensured every need was anticipated before it was expressed. That founding philosophy has remained immutable through four decades of expansion. Today Aman operates more than thirty destinations across five continents, and each property still carries the signature intimacy of the original — small room counts, architecture that dissolves into its natural surroundings, and a cult following of devoted guests who have organized entire lives around the brand. The move into urban residences, most visibly realized at Aman New York within Manhattan's landmark Crown Building in 2022, represents the logical extension of that philosophy into permanent homes for guests who never want to leave. Miami Beach is the first standalone Aman residential tower in the United States.

Behind the project stands a partnership of two of the most formidable figures in global real estate and private capital. Vladislav Doronin was born in Saint Petersburg in 1962, emigrated to Switzerland in the mid-1980s with almost nothing, earned an MBA in Geneva, and began his career in commodities trading under financier Marc Rich before founding Capital Group in Moscow in 1991. Over three decades he constructed more than eighty million square feet of world-class development across eighty-four buildings. In 2015 he established OKO Group as his American platform, and has since delivered landmark projects including Missoni Baia in Edgewater, Una Residences in Brickell, and 830 Brickell, the premier Class A-plus office tower in Miami's financial district. Critically, Doronin also acquired the Aman brand itself in 2014 and serves as its Chairman and CEO, growing its valuation to an estimated three billion dollars — meaning that at Aman Miami Beach, the developer and brand operator are one and the same, removing the creative tensions that typically complicate hotel-branded residential developments. His co-developer Sir Leonard Blavatnik brings an equally extraordinary biography. Born in Odessa in 1957, Blavatnik emigrated to the United States in the late 1970s, earned a degree from Columbia and an MBA from Harvard Business School, and in 1986 founded Access Industries, the privately held investment conglomerate now commanding a global portfolio exceeding thirty-five billion dollars across energy, media, entertainment, real estate, and life sciences — most prominently including Warner Music Group, acquired for 3.3 billion dollars in 2011. Knighted in 2017 for services to philanthropy, Blavatnik has contributed over 1.3 billion dollars to institutions worldwide through his family foundation. The convergence of Doronin's operational control of the Aman brand and Blavatnik's capital and global network makes this partnership exceptionally well-positioned to deliver a project of this caliber.

The architecture of the new residential tower is the work of Kengo Kuma, the Yokohama-born master whose practice has spent four decades pursuing what he calls an architecture of relations — buildings that yield to their context rather than dominate it, that privilege tactile materiality over sculptural spectacle, and that allow light, water, and air to move through form rather than be blocked by it. Kuma, who designed the Japan National Stadium for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and the V&A Dundee museum in Scotland, brings to 3425 Collins Avenue an eighteen-story form of extraordinary refinement: tiered, undulating floors that scallop along the building's face, ensuring every residence commands unobstructed ocean views while the facade reads as a series of layered horizontal planes rather than a monolithic slab. Interiors blend references drawn from Miami Beach's Art Deco heritage with Kuma's signature material vocabulary — warm natural stone, pale oak, woven textiles, and bespoke millwork that registers through touch as much as through sight. The historic Versailles Hotel adjacent to the tower, a genuine Art Deco landmark that has stood on Collins Avenue for decades, is being meticulously restored under the direction of Jean-Michel Gathy of Denniston, Aman's longtime interior architect, whose credits span some of the brand's most iconic properties globally alongside work for Four Seasons, Cheval Blanc, and St. Regis. Gathy's brief is to honor the building's structural and decorative heritage while threading through it the Aman signature of radical calm. The restored Versailles will house fifty-six Aman hotel keys — meaning residents of the tower live in genuine operational adjacency to a full Aman hotel, not merely a branded lifestyle concept.

The twenty-two residences across the tower offer configurations ranging from two to six bedrooms, with sizes extending from approximately 2,500 to more than 6,000 square feet. The collection includes full-floor residences and duplex penthouses, the latter equipped with private plunge pools and terraces that open to panoramic views of both the Atlantic Ocean and Biscayne Bay. Private elevator access, independent service entrances, and a residence management system entirely separate from the hotel operation ensure that owners experience the discretion of a private home rather than the programmatic rhythms of a hotel corridor. Floor-to-ceiling glazing, oversized terraces treated as genuine outdoor living rooms, and interiors finished to Aman's exacting tolerances complete the offering. The project sold out in its entirety in 2021 at an average of approximately five thousand dollars per square foot — among the highest figures recorded in Miami Beach at the time of sale — validating both the scarcity of the offering and the market's confidence in OKO Group's track record of delivery. That presale performance, achieved well before vertical construction began, speaks to the depth of demand among ultra-high-net-worth buyers for the rare convergence of architectural pedigree, operational brand, and absolute scarcity.

The amenity and services program is anchored by a 25,000-square-foot Aman Spa — among the most expansive private wellness facilities in any residential project in Florida — encompassing dedicated treatment rooms, a hammam, sauna suites, and meditation areas. A fitness center with panoramic ocean views, a yoga studio, and a Pilates and functional training zone are organized within the spa's vertical sequence. The wellness offering extends beyond physical training: mindfulness coaching, bespoke wellness journeys curated to individual residents' physiological and lifestyle profiles, and therapeutic programming drawn from Aman's global spa philosophy are all embedded in the residential membership. Beach access is direct and private through the Aman beach club, delivering personalized sunbed and cabana service, food and beverage by attendant, and the unhurried rhythm that distinguishes Aman from every other operator on the sand. An oceanfront swimming pool, a fine dining restaurant at ground level, and the Aman Club private lounge for member events and cultural programming complete the on-site offer. A 24-hour concierge and valet team manages everything from in-residence private dining to airport transfers and yacht charters, while residents hold priority access to the restaurants and lounges of the Versailles hotel wing and to preferential rates and arrangements across Aman's global resort network.

Situated on Collins Avenue in the heart of the Faena District, Aman Miami Beach occupies a stretch of Mid-Beach that has become the city's most deliberately curated address. Flanked by the Faena Hotel and Faena House to the south and a corridor of protected Art Deco frontage to the north, the area benefits from one of the widest and best-maintained beach stretches in Miami Beach, meaningfully lower density than South Beach, and proximity to the Bass Museum of Art, the New World Symphony, and a growing constellation of cultural institutions that have taken root over the past decade. Vertical construction commenced in August 2025 under general contractor Suffolk, advancing at approximately one floor every two weeks toward a top-off expected in early 2026 and a delivery target of 2027. The development also secured an eighty-five million dollar mezzanine debt facility from GoldenTree Asset Management in August 2025, supplementing the two-hundred-forty-three million dollar construction loan previously arranged, underscoring the institutional confidence that continues to surround the project. In November 2025 the Miami Beach Planning Board approved a five-thousand-square-foot floor area ratio bonus for the site, allowing the team to optimize the building program. For any observer tracking the trajectory of ultra-luxury branded residential development in South Florida, Aman Residences Miami Beach stands as the defining benchmark: the smallest unit count, the most selective brand, one of the most accomplished architects in practice today, and the most ambitious wellness program currently rising on the Atlantic coast.

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Location

Mid-Beach, Miami Beach, FL