Which new condos in the Design District and Wynwood are best?

Three new buildings on our file sit where Miami's art crowd spends its days, and each is a different kind of home. Fouquet's Hotel and Residences Miami is the architecture choice: a David Chipperfield tower of 143 residences on nearly two acres of the Design District. Kempinski Residences is the family-sized choice, two to four bedrooms each with a den, From $3,700,000. NoMad Residences Wynwood is the furnished, finished entry point in the gallery district, From $815,900, with only a handful of units left.

Which is best depends on whether you are buying a primary home, a base for the art season, or a furnished apartment you will not always be in.

The Design District has become a museum and gallery neighbourhood as well as a shopping one, home to the Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami and the de la Cruz Collection. Wynwood, just south, is the gallery district with the murals. Buyers who live with art tend to want three things here: walls and ceiling height for the work, walking distance to the institutions, and a building that can handle deliveries, storage and the staff who install.

All three buildings below are in or next to that corridor. None of them is on the water, and that is the trade the neighbourhood asks of you: culture on foot instead of a bay view from the bed. Our Design District zone page maps it.

Fouquet's Hotel and Residences Miami. Price point: released on request. Delivery: no date in the material on our file; deposits staged at contract, groundbreaking and top off, with the majority at closing. Unit mix: 143 residences of one to four bedrooms with private terraces, many with dens, in a 25 storey tower. Position: 39 NE 39th Street, inside the Design District, on nearly two acres, with a 70 foot rooftop pool overlooking the Intracoastal and South Beach. Operator or brand: Fouquet's, the Barriere Group's Paris name since 1899, which operates the hotel with owner access to hotel services; architecture by David Chipperfield Architects, winner of the 2023 Pritzker Architecture Prize.

Kempinski Residences Miami Design District. Price point: From $3,700,000. Delivery: no date in the material on our file. Unit mix: about 132 residences across two 23 story towers, 64 per tower, plus six townhomes and 18 guest suites sold to residents only; two to four bedrooms, each with a den, about 2,100 to 3,100 square feet inside and up to about 3,700 in total. Position: 3801 and 3883 Biscayne Boulevard, at the gateway to the Design District, with bay and skyline views to the east; the site is not waterfront. Operator or brand: Kempinski under licence, with daily management by Kempinski Group and no hotel on the site.

NoMad Residences Wynwood. Price point: From $815,900, per the developer price list of 7 August 2026. Delivery: opened May 2026, about 90 percent sold, with 9 units remaining of 528 to 931 square feet. Unit mix: 329 residences from studio to two bedrooms, each with a private balcony, every one fully furnished. Position: 2700 NW 2nd Avenue, in Wynwood's gallery district, just south of the Design District. Operator or brand: NoMad, by Sydell Group, its first residential property anywhere, with Related Group and Tricap.

For wall space and room count, Kempinski. Every residence has a den, interiors reach about 3,100 square feet, private elevator lobbies keep deliveries discreet, and the 18 guest suites sold only to residents give you somewhere to put visiting family or an installer. See the Kempinski dossier.

For the address inside the district itself, Fouquet's. It stands on Design District land, its developers include Miami Design District Associates, and the hotel's services are open to owners. See the Fouquet's location note, and the Kempinski vs Fouquet's comparison for the two side by side.

NoMad is not built for a collection. Its homes are small and furnished by DesignAgency, and the building is the gallery-district crash pad: a rooftop NoMad restaurant and bar, Casa Tua Cucina at street level, and a developer who describes it as short-term-rental-friendly. See the NoMad location note.

One building a few minutes away in Edgewater was built with collectors in mind: Villa Miami lists private vaults and an on site estate manager and curator, with half floor and full floor homes on the bay. Its dossier is worth a read if the bay matters too.

At Fouquet's, the brand runs a hotel on the site, and owners have access to its services and amenities: two restaurants, a bar and a patisserie, men's and women's spas and the rooftop pool. At Kempinski, there is no hotel; Kempinski Group manages the residences day to day, with house cars and a Sunrise Cafe serving daily breakfast. At NoMad, the brand runs the rooftop restaurant and bar, reached by its own lift, and sets the tone of a building made for owners who come and go.

Fouquet's suits the buyer who wants Chipperfield architecture and a hotel's services in the heart of the district. You give up a published price and date, and you share the site with hotel guests.

Kempinski suits the collector or family who needs rooms, dens and guest space, with European service and no hotel. You give up the water, by the developer's own description, at the highest published entry price here.

NoMad suits the buyer who wants a finished, furnished studio or two bedroom in Wynwood now. You give up size and choice; few units remain.

If the season you come for is in December, think about rental rules before buying; our short-term rental rules page covers how buildings differ. The Design District buying guide and our Edgewater vs Downtown page cover the neighbours. The desk holds the current release for all three and checks ceiling heights and wall lengths by line with you before any visit.