72 Carlyle

About the Project

Few developers arrive in a new market carrying the weight of genuine conviction rather than mere opportunism. Lefferts is one of them. Founded by Mendy Chudaitov — who began acquiring properties at eighteen and named the company after the Brooklyn street he grew up on — Lefferts has spent over two decades and more than $1.5 billion co-developing approximately three million square feet of mixed-use space across New York and South Florida. In New York, the firm built its reputation through architecturally serious collaborations: Lefferts partnered with Renzo Piano on 565 Broome Street in SoHo, one of the most celebrated residential towers of its era, and brought the same exacting sensibility to transformative projects in Queens and Brooklyn. When Chudaitov arrived in Miami Beach in 2019, he did not pivot toward speed or scale. Instead, he methodically assembled a multi-block landholding along the 72nd Street corridor in North Beach, paying $14.3 million for a non-waterfront assemblage that most developers overlooked. The result has been a carefully sequenced trilogy: 72 Park, which completed in spring 2025 as North Beach's first new luxury tower in half a decade; Palma Miami Beach Residences, currently under construction on 71st Street; and now 72 Carlyle — the crown of the collection, and the project on which Lefferts has staked its greatest design ambition.

That ambition found its fullest expression in the choice of Piero Lissoni as the creative force behind 72 Carlyle. Born in Seregno in 1956, Lissoni studied at the Polytechnic University of Milan under luminaries including Achille Castiglioni and Marco Zanuso before founding Lissoni & Partners in Milan in 1986. In the four decades since, he has become one of the most consequential figures in global design — simultaneously serving as art director for Boffi, B&B Italia, Living Divani, Lema, Porro, Lualdi, and the yacht manufacturer Sanlorenzo, while his architectural office has completed residential, hospitality, and civic projects across Europe, Asia, and the Americas. Lissoni describes his philosophy as fundamentally humanistic, rooted in the Renaissance ideal of the architect as an integrated thinker rather than a narrow specialist. His signature is proportion: a rigorous, almost musical attunement to the relationship between mass and void, surface and light, that produces spaces of extraordinary calm without ever tipping into austerity. He is not a minimalist in the reductive sense. He is, rather, an editor — someone who knows precisely what to leave out so that what remains resonates at full intensity. In Miami, his prior work includes the Ritz-Carlton Residences on Miami Beach, where he reimagined a 1925 historic hotel into 111 luxury condominiums and fifteen villas, and the Monaco Yacht Club and Residences. At 72 Carlyle, working through Lissoni Architecture New York, he has taken the most direct possible creative role: designing both the architecture of the tower and every interior environment within it.

The result, rising twenty stories and 250 feet above the corner of 72nd Street and Carlyle Avenue, is a tower that reads as European in its restraint and unmistakably Miami in its relationship to light, sky, and water. The facade is composed of floor-to-ceiling impact-resistant glass running continuous from slab to slab, framed by crisp horizontal lines that emphasize each residential level without cluttering the elevation. Private terraces — proportioned generously and, on select residences, large enough to accommodate summer kitchens and full outdoor lounging arrangements — animate the facade while giving each home a genuine indoor-outdoor threshold rather than a token balcony. The building occupies a 30,750-square-foot site encompassing both 600 72nd Street and 7130 Carlyle Avenue, and at approximately 240,000 square feet of new construction it achieves a density that feels considered rather than maximized. The tower is oriented to capture panoramic views of the Atlantic to the east, North Beach's Normandy Shores and the Intracoastal Waterway to the west, and the green expanse of the 72nd Street beachfront park directly below.

The 134 residences — ranging from one-bedroom layouts of approximately 770 square feet to three-bedroom homes extending beyond 6,000 square feet, with penthouse configurations offering private rooftop pools — share a consistent interior language that could only have come from a single authorial voice. Ceilings reach ten feet throughout, and floor-to-ceiling glass sliding doors dissolve the boundary between terrace and living room with an ease that feels effortless only because it has been so carefully engineered. Kitchens are defined by custom Italian cabinetry designed to Lissoni's specifications, paired with Gaggenau appliances and imported stone countertops that continue across the island without interruption; temperature-controlled wine storage is integrated directly into the millwork. Primary bathrooms are fully spa-calibrated: deep soaking tubs are positioned to receive natural light, glass-enclosed rainforest showers are set apart from the vanity zone, and the large-format, bookmatched stone selections establish a material continuity that runs throughout each residence. Smart-home technology and high-speed fiber-optic connectivity are embedded invisibly throughout, and every unit is wired for the kind of seamless operation that buyers at this level expect but rarely receive without friction.

The amenity program, branded as The Carlyle Club and spanning more than 45,000 square feet of indoor and outdoor space, is among the most comprehensive assembled for a building of 72 Carlyle's intimate scale anywhere in Miami Beach. At the pool level, a resort-calibrated deck with private cabanas overlooks the lush Intracoastal landscape, while an outdoor padel court and activity lawn serve as a social anchor for the building's more active residents. The residents' spa includes dedicated treatment rooms, a Finnish sauna, steam room, and cold plunge pools — a full wellness circuit rather than a pair of amenity checkboxes. The Technogym fitness studio is complemented by a separate yoga and Pilates studio, allowing the programming to operate without disciplines competing for the same space. Socially, the aperitivo lounge — conceived in the Italian tradition as a genuine gathering space — is anchored by a wine cellar and chef's table arrangement suited to private dinners and curated resident events. A co-working library with private meeting spaces, a children's playroom with outdoor play lawn, and a landscaped sky terrace with dining pergola and wet bar complete the indoor-outdoor circuit. Private beach club access is provided through a curated partnership with the Boucher Brothers, one of Miami Beach's most established beach concession operators, ensuring attended, consistent service directly on the sand.

North Beach — or NoBe, as the district is increasingly known — occupies a singular position in Miami Beach's current trajectory. Long the quieter, less commercialized counterpart to South Beach and Mid-Beach, the neighborhood benefited from a 2017 voter-approved zoning reform that increased residential density along strategic corridors, enabling the caliber of ground-up luxury development that Lefferts has led with such consistency. The 72nd Street beachfront park, one of the longest stretches of public green space on the barrier island, sits immediately adjacent to the building. The corridor connects quickly to Surfside and Bal Harbour to the north — proximity to the Shops at Bal Harbour and the dense concentration of fine dining and wellness institutions that has made that pocket one of the most sought-after addresses in South Florida. For investors, the fundamentals are reinforcing: North Beach carries materially lower pricing per square foot than comparable addresses in South Beach while offering newer buildings, less transient foot traffic, and a residential rather than tourist-oriented character. With sales launched in September 2025 and delivery anticipated in 2028, 72 Carlyle enters a market where inventory of genuinely architect-designed, boutique-scale buildings remains extremely scarce — and where Lefferts' demonstrated track record, anchored by 72 Park's completion on schedule in spring 2025, provides the kind of developer credibility that pre-construction buyers in Miami have learned to value above almost everything else.

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Location

7222 Collins Ave, Miami Beach, FL 33141