Keep prying eyes away at these ultra-private homes in the sky with penthouse pools, access to helipads, and the utmost in security.
The 16,000-square-foot penthouse at One Thousand Museum by Zaha Hadid Architects comes with a price tag of $49 million.
One Thousand Museum, a condo tower that will be by far the most superlative of the towers that make up the palisade known as the Biscayne Boulevard Wall, will be capped by the most superlative of penthouses when it’s completed. The building ceremonially broke ground this past December during Art Basel, where its internationally renowned architect, Zaha Hadid, was honored by Mayor Tomas Regalado with a key to the city and cheers from throngs of eager architecture lovers. The 16,000- square-foot penthouse, which has a remarkable $49 million price tag (it would be the biggest residential sale ever on that side of Biscayne Bay) comes with an indoor pool, doubleheight living areas, access to the helipad on the roof, and two private elevators (one leading to both of the penthouse’s floors and another going to the helipad). Sales center, 1040 Biscayne Blvd., Fifth Fl., Miami; 1000 Biscayne Blvd., Miami, 855-663-6873
The long, cylindrical shaft of the Porsche Design Tower Miami is becoming very noticeable now that the project is under construction, and it rises into the Sunny Isles Beach skyline, resembling a very stylish tailpipe. Developed by car lover Gil Dezer, whose family owns an automobile museum in North Miami Beach, and designed by the Porsche Design Group, the building is notable for its triple set of glass car elevators that will whisk residents’ Bentleys, Maseratis, and Porsches up to their private sky garages. Sales center and construction site, 18555 Collins Ave., Sunny Isles Beach; for additional information, call 305-974-0500
The ultra-exclusive, 13-unit Bath Club Estates in Miami Beach.
Three floors of fully customizable luxury, with 9,200 square feet of indoor space and 9,000 square feet of outdoor space, await the buyer of the penthouse at developer Don Peebles’s Bath Club Estates—if the $50 million price is right. The extremely low unit-count of the building (13), and the fact that each is enormously expensive (and thus likely owned by the kind of people of leisure who will often be at one of their many other equally expensive homes), will result in quite a bit of privacy. Although the unit is being marketed as having five bedrooms, nine baths, and a rooftop infinity pool, customization of the layout by architecture firm Arquitectonica, and interiors by interior designer Jennifer Post, means you can really have as many, or as few, rooms as you like. 6747 Collins Ave., Miami Beach, 305-306-4700
The $50 million Bath Club Estates penthouse is fully customizable, with a layout by renowned Miami architecture firm Arquitectonica and interiors by interior designer Jennifer Post.
Sure, it’s just one level above the lobby of Fisher Island’s newest residential building, but the Lanai West unit at the Palazzo del Sol has a terrace (or lanai, if you will) that more than makes up for the lack of height in sheer spaciousness. At 12,844 square feet, the terrace alone is about the size of whatever small European country the palazzo’s architecture is inspired by. The 8,680 square feet of indoor living area include five huge bedrooms, a billiard room, and a foyer the size of an average one-bedroom apartment. And of course, since it’s located on the ultra-private Fisher Island, the only people on Miami Beach who can see you would need binoculars. Sales pavilion, 1 Fisher Island Dr., Fisher Island, 305-613-2118, dorapuig.com