Talk:List of tallest buildings in Miami/Archive 1

Archive 1

Edit list #6 & 7, The Mint vs Infinity

According the Emporis the Mint is 631 ft, and Infinity is 630 ft. Skyscrapercity lists the Mint at 192.3 m and Infinity at 192.0 m

Mint is currently the #6 tallest in Miami while Infinity is #7 according to both sources.

Also according to both sources Infinity is only 52 floors not 56. And the citation that Infinity was "supposed to be" the tallest building in Miami should be removed as it is inaccurate and immaterial. Neither source confirm any "tallest" claim. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 305cj (talk • contribs) 19:15, 23 March 2015 (UTC)

Viceroy

The Viceroy is incorrectly listed as 500 feet. Sources on Emporis list it at 464.67 feet, and Skyscrapercity lists it as 141.7 m.

Issue resolved. Updated sources cited in article. 1305cj (talk) 22:38, 21 January 2016 (UTC)

#30 JW Marriot Marquis Miami

The JW Marriot Marquis Hotel is in the Met 2 Marriot Marquis building. The height of this building is known, it is 367 feet -not 500 feet. Thus it is not #30 on this list, it should not even be on this list as it is well under 400 feet. The note that height is unknown is factually incorrect and appears to be one persons personal opinion.

Another source is the Wells Fargo page which explains that "The Wells Fargo Center is adjacent to the JW Marriott Marquis Miami, a 31-story, 367-foot (112 m) building which is occupied by a JW Marriott Hotel building. The two structures are connected to each other via a parking garage." — Preceding unsigned comment added by 305cj (talk • contribs) 03:38, 24 March 2015 (UTC)

I'm not in the least trying to discourage you from editing Wikipedia, but please understand that at the end of the day "Emporia" and "skyscraperpage" are not actually reliable sources and in all honesty nearly every one of these "tallest buildings in" lists should be deleted or greatly cut down. Especially since many of them are considered featured as long as they can contain a couple of paragraphs at the beginning. This does not help the credibility of Wikipedia. B137 (talk) 03:49, 24 March 2015 (UTC)

Thanks, I didn't mean to upset anyone. I believe the credibility of Wikipedia depends on citing sources for posts. Whether you consider Emporia or Skyscrapercity reliable sources or not, they are actually the sources listed for all of these buildings on this list. Do you have a source you consider more reliable? Given the lack of a source for JW Marriott Marquis, the claim that the height is unknown is a matter of opinion, not fact. I listed my sources (Emporia and Skyscrapercity) -the same sources for every other post on this page. The building is 367 feet, fact. Again I didn't mean to step on any toes but posting opinion without sources does not help the credibility of Wikipedia. 305cj (talk) 13:04, 24 March 2015 (UTC)

Remember that the Wells Fargo Center is 650 feet.

"The building is 367 feet, fact" Just look at the picture and let that sink in for a second.

B137 (talk) 17:47, 24 March 2015 (UTC)

Your point? That picture is at an odd angle, yeah it might look from that viewpoint to be closer to the height of Wells Fargo, but it's not. If you have a more accurate source I'd like to see it, otherwise your opinion doesn't matter and shouldn't be stated as fact. I've listed my sources.305cj (talk) 18:32, 24 March 2015 (UTC)

I'm not trying to be disruptive or start an edit war but 305cj (talk) 18:35, 24 March 2015 (UTC)You are simply guessing that the JW Marriot Marquis is "about 500 feet", Until you measure and state your case for facts the official height of 367 feet should stay!

Please stop trying to create controversies. This may be a recent update but SSC now states 502 feet for Met 2 Marriott (gee my guess was close) Met 2 Marriott on SSCenter. Now this new "Skyscraper Center" is mostly a carbon copy of Emporis, CTBUH simply moved their "official" online database to a new domain. It still cannot be trusted as they do not update their numbers after completion of construction, by actual verification, they just go by preliminary data. Wikipedia needs more quality editors, especially in these subject areas (miami and buildings), and you've got the right idea just don't be so quick to front. B137 (talk) 19:40, 24 March 2015 (UTC)

I'm really not trying to create controversies, I only want to correct mistakes and have factual sources listed. Thank you for finally finding a source to support your claim about the Marriot Marquis. I hope that you would now agree with me that your (or anyone's) "Guess" does not belong on a list page citing factual data. Your original statement that "the height of the JW Marriott Marquis is unknown" was and is still unacceptable. I'm sorry if you feel that's controversial. Now, about your insistence about changing the height of 900 Biscayne. Every source I've seen states that it is 712 feet and the 3rd tallest (completed building) in Miami -including the CTBUH, ahead of the Marquis. Again, your "guess" or opinion based on looking at the buildings doesn't belong here. Please correct this and change it back to reflect available factual data. Wikipedia does need more editors, I appreciate your participation, but don't be so quick to state your guesses as fact. 1305cj (talk) 21:20, 24 March 2015 (UTC)

Here is a list of the source you cited, CTBUH, showing order of completed buildings in Miami. If you can prove them wrong I will accept that, until then please stop being disruptive by stating your "guess" of a buildings height. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 1305cj (talk • contribs) 22:09, 24 March 2015 (UTC)

Issue resolved. Updated sources cited in article. 1305cj (talk) 22:40, 21 January 2016 (UTC)

900 Biscayne Bay

Please provide one source to back your claim that 900 Biscayne Bay is not #3. I've provided three. The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat should be enough. Edits changing this to #4 seem to be based on nothing more than opinion and speculation, apparently looking at a picture and saying "gee that looks shorter, let's just guess and adjust the height down 50 feet". (yes I read the whole "Accuracy of Emporis?" section above, -it's all based on speculation and opinion) That is not an acceptable source, you've cited no sources to back your opinion. An editorial written before the buildings were complete is not enough to trump the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat, Emporis, and Skyscraperpage, which all list the same height. 1305cj (talk) 03:39, 25 March 2015 (UTC)

Issue resolved. Updated sources cited in article. 1305cj (talk) 22:39, 21 January 2016 (UTC)

Met 3 not under construction

I know this is original research, but Met 3 isn't under construction (as Emporis states) as of 4/4/2007. I drove by it today and the site still serves as a parking lot for the construction crews of other buildings in the area. Anyone know when actual groundbreaking will occur? - Marc Averette 23:03, 4 April 2007 (UTC)

Is this still pending? It's been almost a year. Thanks! LostLucidity (talk) 20:55, 14 March 2008 (UTC)

I was downtown about two weeks ago. They have a covered fence around it with a big '3' so you can't see in too well from a car, but I believe I caught a glimpse of cars parked inside. At least '2' is finally going up. - Marc Averette (talk) 22:02, 14 March 2008 (UTC)

Met 3 has been completed, topped off in 2015 at only 32 floors, 349ft/106m 1305cj (talk) 23:08, 21 January 2016 (UTC)

New skyline photos

I took a few shots of the skyline. This one is from MacArthur and shows just central downtown (Brickell is hidden behind everything):

And this one is taken from I-195. It shows much more of the skyline (Omni & Edgewater), but Brickell is still hidden:

Looks like the only way to get everything in one shot is from an airplane, but I can take another one from the southern angle on the Rickenbacker, which would showcase Brickell much better. - Marc Averette (talk) 20:49, 17 May 2008 (UTC)

Accuracy/FLRC

The accuracy is low therefore it is a Featured List Removal Candidate.

• Wikipedia:Featured list removal candidates/List of tallest buildings in Miami/archive1

B137 (talk) 02:20, 9 November 2014 (UTC)

New direction

Since many facts are disputed here, it could be wise to add more qualitative (though still sourced) information such as the nature of the market and the politics involved, like what goes on with the FAA.

Feb 2015 source for second boom "cooling down": http://www.miamiherald.com/news/business/article11956703.html B137 (talk) 02:04, 3 March 2015 (UTC)

Sounds like a good idea.--Comayagua99 (talk) 04:01, 3 March 2015 (UTC)

end of list from 400 to 492 ft inc. contented buildings

40	Espirito Santo Plaza		487 (148)	36	2004	Brickell
41	Miami Center		484 (148)	34	1983	Downtown
42	Asia		483 (147)	36	2008	Brickell Key
43	Brickell on the River South Tower		482 (147)	42	2006	Brickell
44=	Three Tequesta Point		480 (146)	46	2001	Brickell Key
44=	Avenue on Brickell East Tower		480 (146)	47	2007	Brickell
46	Latitude on the River		476 (145)	44	2007	Brickell
47	1100 Millecento		470 (143)	42	2015	Brickell	Residential tower with 382 condominiums located at 1100 South Miami Avenue. Construction began in September 2012. Topped off in early 2014.
48	One Miami East Tower		460 (140)	44	2005	Downtown
49	701 Brickell Avenue		450 (137)	33	1986	Brickell	Formerly known as The Lincoln Center
50	One Miami West Tower		449 (137)	45	2005	Downtown
51	Met 1		440 (134)	40	2007	Downtown
52	The Loft 2 —		433 (132)	35	2007	Downtown
53	Sabadell Financial Center		430 (131)	31	2000	Brickell	Also known as Barclays Financial Center; formerly known as Mellon Financial Center
54	Centro Lofts		24.0428 (130)	36	2015	Downtown	Announced in Fall 2012. Construction began in December 2013. Topped out in 2015, opening in 2016.
55=	500 Brickell West Tower		426 (130)	42	2008	Brickell
55=	500 Brickell East Tower		426 (130)	42	2008	Brickell
57	Blue on the Bay		425 (130)	36	2005	Edgewater
58=	Vue at Brickell		423 (129)	36	2004	Brickell
58=	1800 Club —		423 (129)	40	2007	Omni
58=	Brickell on the River North Tower		423 (129)	46	2007	Brickell
61	The Mark on Brickell		420 (128)	36	2001	Brickell
62=	Axis at Brickell Village South Tower		418 (127)	40	2008	Brickell
62=	Axis at Brickell Village North Tower		418 (127)	40	2008	Brickell
64	One Broadway		413 (126)	40	2005	Brickell	Formerly known as Park Place at Brickell
65	The Club at Brickell Bay		411 (125)	42	2004	Brickell	Also known as Brickell Bay Plaza
66=	Two Tequesta Point		410 (125)	40	1999	Brickell Key
66=	Carbonell Condominium		410 (125)	40	2005	Brickell Key
68	Courthouse Center		405 (123)	30	1986	Downtown
69	The Palace		400 (122)	42	1981	Brickell
	The Grand Doubletree		388 (118)	42	1978	Omni

DoubleTree has a about 39 floor plates and a skylight of 20 feet or more. B137 (talk) 22:57, 17 January 2016 (UTC)

Verifiable sources are needed. "About" 39 floors, doesn't cut it. Please cite a source for architectural height. As of today sources state 388. 1305cj (talk) 17:12, 18 January 2016 (UTC)

out of date once more

Edits/updates needed. Met 3 has now been completed, topped off and cranes removed anyway. As well as Centro Lofts and all 3 of the Brickell City Centre buildings. The Bond and SLS Brickell have also topped off, although their cranes are still up. According to the rule on the Under Construction section "Buildings that have already been topped out are not included." If the completed heights are accurate these should now be moved and listed as complete. Thanks 1305cj (talk) 15:36, 13 November 2015 (UTC)

I realize this. I've been letting things go for a while. It's tedious to edit for every minor change to every project going on. Let alone all the speculative stuff. I will probably do a big update all at once once things calm down, or by the end of this year, whichever comes sooner. Maybe even in the next few days. Won't let it fall too out of date. B137 (talk) 23:34, 14 November 2015 (UTC)

The Bond

Not being very acquainted with Wikipedia I hesitate to make changes, but from what I can tell the building known on Wikipedia as 'The Bond at Brickell' is just, "The Bond" or "The Bond on Brickell." The official website (bondonbrickell.com), the logo, the sales center, and the developer's website (http://rileagroup.com/projects/the-bond.html) all call it, "The Bond." — Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.110.72.245 (talk) 17:19, 11 December 2014 (UTC)

It appears you are right; they truncated the name. "The Bond" seems more official but "The Bond on Brickell" seems more appropriate, it's also more "ergotitular" for Wikipedia, where "The Bond" will need parentheses to disambiguate. Though "xyz at/on Brickell" is becoming tired. B137 (talk) 21:18, 20 December 2014 (UTC)

Listing of neighborhoods in image captions

I don't think we should be naming the neighborhood in which a building is located in an image caption. If anything, this should go as a separate column in the tables, entitled "Neighborhood" or "Region". The captions are already lengthy as it is; they do not need more infomation. Raime 05:52, 23 August 2007 (UTC)

Bordering on OR?

I know my edit was original research, but it was all factual. Therefore, considering that anything taken from a source is "original research", then therefore the only other option is plagarism. I think my edit needed to be edited, not deleted. The fact of the matter is that 76 years did seperate the 7 after 3 top tallest buildings in NYC, and only one year in Miami, original or not, that's 100% fact. It's not a direct comparison, but it should be stated, even if just compared to other cities.

The fact that 7 of the 10 tallest buildings in the city were built in ONE year is very, very important to note. ReignMan 18:03, 26 September 2007 (UTC)

I did not say it wasn't factual. Feel free to add the information about the 7/10 buildings being completed in one year. You're right, that is important to note. I'll even re-add it myself, although it is slightly debatable to list U/C buildings as official tallest buildings in a city. But a comparison to New York City skyscrapers is not necessary, nor does it belong here. New York City's top ten tallest skyscrapers are by far taller than that of Miami's. If you are going to look at specifics, New York City saw the construction of 14 buildings taller than 400 feet and 83 highrises in one year - 1930. In 1931, 64 more highrises were constructed. In 1960, 61 were constructed. And so on. Comparing the skyscrapers of New York City to Miami is inappropriate in the lead of this list. New York City's skyline is about half a century older than that of Miami's, so it is expected that its tallest buildings would be spread out over a variety of years, whereas Miami's would not. Rai-me 21:32, 26 September 2007 (UTC)

OK, I get that much, but still, it bears noting that Miami is growing at a rate unheard of in human history. I'm just so used to "where does it stand compared to New York." Like crime, everyone says that Detroit, Compton, St. Louis, and Camden are the worst, but Opa Locka is the worst. Florida cities never get recognised for their size and stature, and even crime rates. The more people realise that Miami is violent, and has massively underbuilt transit systems, the sooner it will be fixed! It's about time that we started to show the world, that this is a HUGE city, not a mere 400,000 pop. town. We're the 4th biggest Urban Area in America for god's sakes (according to the United Nations.)

The idea isn't to say, "we're the biggest, or best, or anything of that nature, but the 2nd for crime, the 4th for size, and the 3rd for skyscrapers, etc. Lets at least try to keep up with these other cities on our articles, ours are rated GA, but Houston's (boastful, bad facts, etc.) is FA! We need to make our articles better.

In conclusion, I read the edit you made, and I like it. I think the article shows what it needs to now.ReignMan 05:12, 27 September 2007 (UTC)

I get what you are saying, and I definitely agree. I also love the city, and want to see its receive the recognition it deserves. And I completely agree with improving articles related to this great city. I just don't think that hyping up the skyline is the way to do it. Even if this was not what you were trying to do when you added the information, that is the way it appeared. But anyway, as you said, it is all good now. The information is presented, and hopefully Miami's terrific skyline will get the recognition it deserves with this FL. Rai-me 01:08, 29 September 2007 (UTC)

300-ft buildings

Is it necessary to list buildings between 300 to 399-feet? It seems unnecessary to list them as the list is a bit large. --Comayagua99 (talk) 02:50, 29 May 2008 (UTC)

A good example to go by here would be the Chicago page, which has a cutoff of 500 ft, yet contains 91 finished buildings. Miami, which now has a cutoff point of 300 ft, still only has 80 finished buildings. Instead of blind cutoff points, they should be based on how many there would be depending the level cutoff. - Marc Averette (talk) 14:45, 29 May 2008 (UTC)

Chicago is an extreme example; as the city with (arguably) the third-largest skyline in the world, it it is not a problem for it to have more skyscrapers than Miami in its list. If anything, the Chicago list should be shortened rather than this list be made longer. This list can be compared to Houston, which uses 400 ft as a cutoff and has 45 entries. The Miami list, when it had 40+ 50+ entries, was already longer than the vast majority of tallest building lists, especially when factoring in its large future buildings section. I definitely think that the section should be removed, as a) the list was already bordering on "too long" prior to the addition, b) the new section has no references, c) the future section does not include 300 ft+ buildings, and d) several of the newly listed buildings are redlinked. Per Wikipedia:WikiProject Skyscrapers/Tallest building lists#Data cutoff, it is appropriate for Miami to use a 400 ft cutoff. Cheers, Rai•me 21:01, 29 May 2008 (UTC) (Text alteration made by Rai•me at 21:06, 29 May 2008 (UTC))

Well, 'b' is hardly an issue, as the refrences can easily be added. And as for 'd', if you go to List of tallest buildings in Jacksonville, almost all of those buildings, (even some of the "tall" ones) are redlinked. But even so I can see why the cutoff should probably be 400, since the list is getting a little long to manage. - Marc Averette (talk) 21:31, 29 May 2008 (UTC)

Articles for every entry aren't required for all tallest buildings lists, but since this is a featured list, it is held to higher standards and could be brought to WP:FLRC if other editors feel it has "too many" redlinks. That was pretty much my reasoning behiond point 'd'. Cheers, Rai•me 21:38, 29 May 2008 (UTC)

Why don't we just create a new sub-section titled "Other notable buildings below 400ft" and only list those buildings which have their own Wikipedia articles. Some of these buildings already have articles and might as well be listed in the article of Miami buildings. However, I think it's best to keep them out of the main completed list, as it is a bit lengthy. --Comayagua99 (talk) 15:01, 30 May 2008 (UTC)

When it comes to smaller and lesser known high-rise buildings, it is sometimes hard to define notability. For example, what makes 1221 Brickell Building more notable than Brickell Bay Tower? I still think it would be best just to leave the 300 ft-399 ft buildings off the list. Of course, the shorter buildings that do have articles could be added to {{Miami skyscrapers}}, making them accessible from this page and all other Miami skyscraper articles. I think that that would be the best solution. Cheers, Rai•me 00:16, 31 May 2008 (UTC)

I also believe that buildings between 300 and 399 feet should not be included. All these lists need a limit. 400 feet is perfect due to the size of the skyline. As Raime noted, we can add buildings that do have articles to the Miami template. There is no point to include so many buildings. If we go to 300 feet, then what would prevent the list from going to 250 feet? I think we should stick with the guidelines listed at Wikipedia:WikiProject Skyscrapers/Tallest building lists#Data cutoff. But, if editors believe those guidelines should be changed, then we should move this discussion to Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Skyscrapers. --Leitmanp (talk | contributions) 00:34, 31 May 2008 (UTC)

Also, and hear me out on this, most of the buildings in Miami/Miami Beach and surrounding areas are simply not as notable as buildings in other cities because they are all very similar high rise condos. I've noticed that office buildings tend to be much more notable. "Notability on buildings goes like this: historic > office > condo > hotel. Daniel Christensen (talk) 04:52, 22 December 2010 (UTC)

It's kind of creepy to write about condos because they are basically people's houses.

hidden part

header 1	header 2	header 3
59	Oakwood Miami Apartments		380 / 116	36	1998
56	Museum Tower		377 / 115	29	1986
57	Skyline on Brickell		376 / 115	34	2004
58	SunTrust International Center		375 / 114	31	1973
59=	Bristol Tower		371 / 113	41	1993
59=	Brickell Bay Tower		371 / 113	30	1985
61	NeoVertika		369 / 112	36	2006
62	Bay Parc Plaza		368 / 112	39	2000
63	Hotel Intercontinental Miami		366 / 112	35	1982
64=	1221 Brickell Building		365 / 111	27	1986
64=	The Grand Doubletree	365 / 111	42	1986
64=	Avenue on Brickell East Tower	365 / 111	35	2007
67	Miami-Dade County Courthouse	360 / 110	28	1928	Tallest building built in Miami in the 1920s
68	New World Tower	357 / 109	30	1965	Tallest building built in Miami in the 1960s
69	Midtown Tower Four	350 / 107	33	2008
70	Grovenor House	341 / 104	33	2006	Tallest building in Coconut Grove
71=	Plaza Venetia Hotel	332 / 101	33	1979
71=	Biscayne Bay Marriott Hotel	332 / 101	31	1979
73=	One Brickell Square	328 / 100	26	1985
73=	Brickell Bayview Center	328 / 100	33	1986
75	Tower at Two Midtown	320 / 98	30	2007
76	Flagler Center Building	318 / 97	25	1975
77	Onyx On The Bay	308 / 94	27	2007
78=	The Imperial	306 / 93	31	1983
78=	Fortune House	306 / 93	29	1998
80	Latitude One	305 / 93	23	2007

400 ft buildings

As the list approaches 100, it might be a good idea to move the cutoff point to 450 feet (140 m) or the widely recognized standard of 150 metres (492 ft), as nothing below these points is too significant and these lower heights include plenty of dubious information. So does the rest of the list other than the five or so tallest and the older buildings, but below 150 meters there is lots of potential for error, including other buildings I believe might actually be 400+ feet. The 150 meter point would be a really good way to end the list, with the vintage landmark One Biscayne Tower, the first modern skyscraper, right at the bottom. B137 (talk) 21:50, 21 November 2015 (UTC)

Accuracy of Emporis?

Look at this latest photo of the Biscayne Wall, 2/23/2008. Emporis.com claims that Marinablue (left) is 615 ft, 900 Biscayne Bay (2nd from left) is 712 ft, while Marquis Miami (right) is 679 ft. Does anyone see a problem here? How is Marinablue nearly 100 ft shorter than 900 Biscayne? Impossible. Also Marquis is clearly now taller than 900 Biscayne.

Is there a better source than Emporis.com? This is only one of several recent examples of data conflicting with common sense. - Marc Averette (talk) 16:47, 23 February 2008 (UTC)

Those height measurements you are disputing are in feet not meters. No building in Miami surpasses 300 meters as of yet. LostLucidity (talk) 17:03, 23 February 2008 (UTC)

The bad data appears to be that 900 Biscayne Bay is 712 ft. It is most likely around 620-630 ft (just a bit taller than Marinablue at 615 ft), while Marquis Miami is still going up to be 679 ft. They must have had to trim down 900 Biscayne Bay and Emporis isn't aware of the blueprint change. - Marc Averette (talk) 19:35, 23 February 2008 (UTC)

I'm tending to agree with you from what I see from the photos. Perhaps calling the building directly might yield more accurate data or send Emporis.com an e-mail with what you're reasoning here. I might try myself if I have time. LostLucidity (talk) 16:58, 24 February 2008 (UTC)

There's also a second problem in the picture: If Marina Blue is 615 feet tall, how come Ten Museum Park looks like its about 70 feet (5 - 7 stories) shorter? Ten Museum Park is about 585 feet tall and I doubt a 30 foot vertical difference would look so large in the photo. Cheers. _{Trance addict} 08:07, 29 February 2008 (UTC)

They probably did scale down 900 Biscayne Bay; I count only 60 floors from the photo above and this one on Emporis. (Use the hole). Cheers. _{Trance addict} 08:15, 29 February 2008 (UTC)

Comparing the above image of 900 BB with the rendering on Emporis, it looks like the developer chopped off the decor on the roof and several floors of the building itself. Cheers. _{Trance addict} 08:18, 29 February 2008 (UTC)

It seems like 900 Biscayne Bay definitely had a piece of its rooftop "spire" excluded from the final design; you can see that on this SkyscraperPage.com diagram, two black spires bring the total height to 712 ft, but without the rooftop structures (which are not present in any photos), the structure only reaches 650 ft, 30 ft shorter than the Marquis. This would also account for the loss of 5 floors. [http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=360806 This ref], albeit a forum, supports that it was topped off at 650 ft and 63 floors. As for the Ten Museum Park confusion, I think it may just be the angle of the photograph. This photo makes the height difference seem much smaller, and 30 feet seems correct. In addition, there are many sources that can "vouch" for Ten Museum Park being 575 ft and 50 stories outside of Emporis and SkyscraperPage: [1], [2], [3]. Cheers, Rai-me 20:16, 3 March 2008 (UTC)

The Biscaynewall close-up image appears visually distorted to me, making the height difference between Marina Blue and Ten Museum Park smaller. The Biscaynewall image at the top of this thread and the skyline panorama on the article seems less distorted than the Biscaynewall closeup. I think both of those images portray the height of Ten Museum Park better than the close up. As for the SkyscraperPage diagrams, they are out of scale compared to the actual Biscayne Wall skyscrapers. The height of the top floor of Ten Museum Park clearly doesn't reach the height of the lower roof of Marina Blue. The main roof of Marquis Miami clearly isn't at the same height as the top of Marina Blue. Despite the three sources, I'm not convinced that Ten Museum Park is 585 feet tall. Or it could be that the given height of Marina Blue and Marquis are both wrong, as we have been using these two buildings as measuring sticks. Perhaps a law of cosines can settle this matter. Cheers. _{Trance addict - Tiesto - Above and Beyond} 07:30, 4 March 2008 (UTC)

The older one was taken from a boat, so the upward angle creates an illusion. The newest one is taken at 10x optical zoom from a southbeach apt about 120 ft up, so it's more level with the front and center of the 4 buildings. Marc Averette (talk) 17:47, 6 March 2008 (UTC)

Even so, I still think Ten Museum Park reaches 575 ft; SkyscraperPage diagrams are often not exactly to scale, but the height figures given below usually are accurate. After closer examination of the first, newer image given above, it appears that Ten Museum Park reaches almost the exact same level as the lower roof of Marinablue, and not beneath it; therefore, it is safe to assume that the SkyscraperPage diagrams are slightly off, but the height figures are not - perhaps Marinablue's roof was just drawn as a little too low, and Ten Museum Park's a little too high (if you look, it is drawn slightly above 575 ft, and is closer to 580 ft). Also, the lower roof of Marquis is hard to pinpoint in the image, as the higher roof seems to be the one which faces the water. I think that the lower roof height can be marked by the two small, black prongs that come out roughly 1/9 of the way down the building, and this seems to be exactly on par with the highest roof of Marinablue and slightly lower than the roof of 900 Biscayne. I say that we should leave the heights of Ten Museum Park, Marquis Miami, and Marinablue as they are on the table, as there are many references which support these heights and an examination of the image doesn't present any clear mistakes other than the height of 900 Biscayne Bay. Given that, I will change the height of 900 Biscayne and remove the accuracy tag, but leave the dubious tag on Ten Museum Park for now until we come to a definite decision to leave the height as is or reduce it. Comments? Cheers, Rai-me 00:25, 8 March 2008 (UTC)

What do you base your edit of 900 Biscayne on? It appears to be original research based on a 'guestimate' from looking at a picture. Eyeballing comparisons is not reliable as viewpoint angles can be deceiving. All available sources list 900 Biscayne as 712 feet. That would place it at #3 building in Miami. This list should not be based on opinion and guestimates. 305cj (talk) 15:07, 24 March 2015 (UTC)

footnote, coral gables

A footnote should be made for the four seasons floor counts explaining the differences at the bottom. I think 64 floors is the true linear count from the lobby while 70 counts overlapping floors due to the parking garage behind the lobby and tower. Also, a building in Coral Gables (miami) was the tallest in Florida/Miami for a while. Daniel Christensen (talk) 23:44, 31 July 2011 (UTC)

Coral Gables Biltmore Hotel

Height of Four Seasons

The height of the Four Seasons Tower was listed as 789 ft / 240 m, but thge building's article has it at 794 ft / 242 m. I chnaged the height on this page to match with the article, but was wondering if anyone knows the exact height of the building. Emporis seems to think it is the shorter height, so is that the one we should go with? Raime 12:19, 28 June 2007 (UTC)

On second thought, we should definitely go with Emporis' information. I'll change the building's article. Raime 12:19, 28 June 2007 (UTC)

One Bayfront Plaza

Where is the information stating that this building will be 381 meters tall? According to Emporis, it will be only 360 meters tall (with spire) and therefore will be the third, not the 1st, tallest skyscraper in the city. 72.192.10.173 20:23, 4 April 2007 (UTC)

It has been approved for 320 meters according to Emporis. It is currently the only building approved over 300 meters and 1 of 3 that have been approved or proposed to be over 300 meters. Of the 3 it is projected to be the tallest. LostLucidity (talk) 14:25, 12 March 2008 (UTC)

Paramount at Edgewater Square

There seems to be a big discrepancy in the height of this building. The CTBUH simply lists the architectural height at 555ft/169m. Emporis has architectural height at 169m but main roof at 151m. This building doesn't really have what could be considered a spire, it steps up several floors to it's highest point (which I think would be the 555 foot reference). I'm not sure what Emporis considers the main roof, maybe the level before the series of setbacks raising to the highest point. Anyway the total height should be listed as height of the building, it's part of the building structure and design, with occupied floors, not like an added antenna or anything. I was about to update the numbers but it's a big change, moving the building from 36 on the list way up to 16. Any thoughts, input, objections? An updated picture would be good too. 1305cj (talk) 04:54, 25 January 2016 (UTC)

I went ahead and made a bold edit here. The difference between the two sources was 18 meters, or 59 feet, which would be about 5 or 6 floors. 1305cj (talk) 19:09, 25 January 2016 (UTC)

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