888 Brickell by Dolce&Gabbana is a planned 90-storey, 1,049-foot tower on Brickell Avenue by JDS Development Group, designed by Studio Sofield with ODP as architect of record, with roughly 250 to 259 fully furnished residences by Dolce&Gabbana Casa and a hotel component. It is approved and not yet under construction. Here is what the buyers who choose it are choosing, and where it stands.
Written by the desk at Miami Dossier from the developer's published material and the public construction record, cross-referenced across several sources, with anything unconfirmed flagged. The desk works in English, Spanish and Portuguese and does not represent the developer. All notes from the desk.
The desk at Miami Dossier covers a small number of Miami buildings closely rather than the whole market lightly. 888 Brickell is one the desk is asked about every week, and it is also one where the honest answer begins with status: as of the public record in the summer of 2026 the tower is approved and pre-construction, with no vertical construction reported and the developer described as still arranging financing. What follows is the list of reasons buyers give when they choose it, with the facts behind each, and the status stated plainly rather than buried.
Miami-Dade approved the tower in mid-2024. As of the public record in summer 2026, no vertical construction has been reported, construction financing has not been reported as closed, and the developer has been described in reporting as still securing debt. Published delivery estimates have ranged from 2027 to 2029. None of that is the same as cancelled; none of it is the same as rising. The desk at Miami Dossier confirms the current status on the day of any conversation, and reads the deposit and escrow terms with that status in mind.
At 90 storeys and 1,049 feet, 888 Brickell is planned to be the tallest building in Miami and the first supertall in the city, on the avenue in the centre of Brickell. Views from the upper floors would clear everything around them.
The fashion house is credited with the interior design of every residence and with the curation of the amenity spaces. It is the brand's debut in American real estate, and debuts get the attention that later projects rarely receive.
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Every residence is planned to be delivered turnkey, furnished and appointed by Dolce&Gabbana Casa down to the linens and tableware. For a buyer arriving from abroad who wants to walk in, that removes a second budget and a year of work after closing.
Studio Sofield, the New York practice behind some of the most restrained luxury retail and residential work in Manhattan, designed the tower with ODP Architecture and Design as architect of record. The reference is the Seagram Building and Milanese mid-century design.
Ivory travertine, white stucco and matte black steel, expressly vertical, with a gold beaded band at the base and a golden sculpture at the crown. It would read unlike any glass tower on the avenue.
Roughly 250 to 259 residences from one to four bedrooms, reported between roughly 2,100 and 9,800 square feet, in Suite and Room, Duplex and Penthouse collections, with ceilings up to roughly 11 feet, Sub-Zero and Wolf kitchens and private or semi-private keyed elevators.
The tower is planned as a hybrid of residences and a hotel, with a suite and room collection that allows an owner to place part of a residence in the managed hotel programme. That is a different proposition from a pure residence, and it is why the management terms matter as much as the finishes.
A lap pool, a resident lounge, a theatre, a billiards room, creative workspaces, a children's room, an indoor padel court, a fitness centre, a spa with hot and cold plunges, a salon, a tailor and a yoga studio, with club and dining spaces credited to Ken Fulk. Roughly 50,000 square feet of commercial and dining space is planned at the base.
888 Brickell Avenue is in the middle of the financial district, a few minutes on foot from Brickell City Centre, the Metromover and the office towers where the buyers of these homes tend to work.
JDS is the New York developer behind some of Manhattan's tallest residential towers, including 111 West 57th Street. It has delivered supertall buildings before. It is also, in Miami in 2026, a developer with a stalled second project and public litigation, which the desk at Miami Dossier reads alongside the record rather than instead of it.
The current status as of the day you ask, the published plans by collection, the current release and the deposit and escrow terms, obtained directly from the sales team on request, together with an honest comparison against the Brickell towers that are already standing. Ask for it and it arrives from the desk at Miami Dossier the same day, usually by WhatsApp, with our opinion attached, whether that opinion is 888 Brickell, another building, or not now.
Your situation is specific. Tell the desk in one message and we will say what applies to you, what does not, and who to speak with.
Most of the people who ask the desk at Miami Dossier about 888 Brickell by Dolce&Gabbana are not only choosing a building. They are moving to Miami from New York, California, London, Bogotá, Mexico City or São Paulo, or adding a Miami position to a portfolio held elsewhere, and the building question sits inside a larger one: how to buy new construction in Miami, how to hold it, and what changes when you do.
The desk keeps short notes on the parts that come up every week: how buying preconstruction in Miami actually works, what a normal deposit schedule looks like, whether you need to be in Miami to buy, whether a foreign buyer can get a mortgage, what taxes a foreign buyer pays on a Miami condo, and the Florida state income tax question for anyone relocating from a high-tax state. For buyers arriving from a specific market there are notes for Bogotá, Mexico City and London, and a broader one on why so many wealthy families are moving to Miami.
Read the ones that apply, then bring the rest to the desk at Miami Dossier. It usually takes one conversation to see how 888 Brickell by Dolce&Gabbana fits the move, or whether another building fits it better.
This note is general information for people considering Miami, written by a real estate desk, not by a law or accounting firm. Nothing here is legal, tax, immigration or investment advice, and it is not a substitute for advice on your own circumstances. Rules change, treaties differ by country, and the right answer for one family is the wrong answer for another.
Speak with your own attorney and CPA before you commit to anything. If you do not have one who works with international buyers in Florida, the desk is glad to recommend an attorney, a CPA or an adviser suited to your situation, and to sit in the first conversation so that nothing is lost in translation.
Structure, financing, currency, timing, the right building and the right line: the desk works through these questions with international buyers every week, and the answer is nearly always that it can be done, in order, without surprises. If Miami is on your mind, as a home or as an allocation, we would be glad to share what we are seeing, privately, and to start with the question this note did not answer.