1 · POSITION
Charles M. Sieger and José J. Suárez shaped a repeatable South Florida high-rise residence in which the apartment behaves partly like a private house and partly like a hotel. Their recurring method joined through-view plans, private lift arrival, large terraces, serviced common rooms and increasingly complex parking systems. Porsche Design Tower is the primary anchor because it made that method inseparable from a new mechanical entrance: the resident arrived with the car at a garage beside the home. Bentley Residences then scaled the same architectural problem.
2 · WHY A JOINT CARD
The present practice is owned and managed by Sieger and Suárez, and the work used for admission was produced through their long partnership rather than through two clearly separable catalogues. Suárez joined Sieger’s office in 1980 and became a partner in 1987. A Charles-only card would erase the decades in which Suárez helped build the office and its residential system. A José-only card would sever that system from the practice Sieger established in 1972. The Library therefore treats the partnership as the unit of authorship.
3 · THE LIBRARY TEST
The pair is not admitted for scale alone. The firm claims more than 75,000 South Florida residences and billions of dollars of construction, but volume does not prove authorship. They pass because a recognisable planning and arrival model recurred across different developers and brands: Apogee, St. Regis Bal Harbour, BrickellHouse, Porsche Design Tower, Residences by Armani/Casa and Bentley Residences. Other architects and developers subsequently used the same luxury vocabulary of flow-through plans, private elevator foyers, resort amenities and mechanised parking.
4 · CHARLES M. SIEGER
Charles M. Sieger was born in New York in 1946 and raised in Miami. He studied architecture at the University of Florida, graduating in 1969, and also studied at the Écoles d’Art Américaines at Fontainebleau in France. He completed a Master of Architecture at the University of Pennsylvania in 1970 under Louis Kahn. The education mattered less as a source of visible Kahn-like form than as a discipline of plan, structure and architectural order.
5 · LOUIS KAHN’S INFLUENCE
Sieger later described Kahn as his mentor, philosopher and most important architectural influence. Yet the South Florida towers do not imitate Kahn’s monumental language. The influence is more useful when understood as a way of organising difficult briefs. The firm repeatedly separates served residential space from cores, lifts, garages and service zones, then uses those systems to preserve light, view and privacy.
6 · PRACTICE FROM 1972
Sieger began practising in 1972. Florida corporate records show the architectural corporation filed on 20 October of that year and remains active, with Sieger and Suárez listed as current officers in the 2026 annual report. This is the legal continuity of the office. It predates the partnership in its present form and therefore should not be confused with a 1980 “co-founding” shorthand used in later profiles.
7 · JOSÉ J. SUÁREZ
José J. Suárez was born in Cuba in 1957 and moved to the United States in 1961. Raised in Miami, he graduated cum laude from the University of Miami School of Architecture in 1981. The local formation matters. Suárez’s career developed inside the climate, zoning, construction industry and buyer culture that the office would help turn into a specialised high-rise market.
8 · JOINING THE OFFICE
Suárez joined Charles Sieger’s architectural office as an apprentice in 1980, before completing his degree. The firm records him as a practising architect from 1985 and as a partner from 1987. This sequence reconciles apparently conflicting accounts. The corporation began in 1972; Suárez entered in 1980; the lasting partnership emerged during the 1980s.
9 · THE PRESENT PARTNERSHIP
Florida’s corporate register lists The Sieger Suarez Architectural Partnership, Inc. as active and identifies Charles M. Sieger as president/director and José J. Suárez as vice-president/secretary. The firm filed its 2026 annual report in February 2026. The practice is therefore not a historic name used only for past projects. It remains an operating architectural organisation on the record date.
10 · NO SIGNATURE FAÇADE
Sieger has said the office has no visual trademark. That statement is important because the firm’s contribution is often misread as stylistic anonymity. Its signature lies less in façade authorship than in product organisation: how a tower admits the owner, frames two directions of view, separates service, constructs privacy and gives developers saleable plans. Different brands can therefore occupy the architecture without every building looking alike.
11 · ARCHITECTURE FOR A DEVELOPER MARKET
The practice works inside the commercial conditions of condominium development. Sieger has described the architect’s task as satisfying residents while keeping the project viable for the developer who must sell it. This is not lesser authorship. Luxury residential architecture becomes influential when it can be repeated within land cost, zoning, structure and sales constraints rather than surviving only as an exceptional house.
12 · THE BUYER AS PART OF THE BRIEF
Sieger’s public explanations begin with the people who will live in and buy the building. The firm studies view, privacy, room sequence, arrival and the points at which buyers perceive difference. That market responsiveness can produce conservative architecture, but it can also create useful invention. Porsche Design Tower was possible because a dramatic engineering idea was translated into a home buyers could understand.
13 · THE FLOOR-THROUGH IDEA
The firm identifies the “floor through/see through” residence as one of its defining innovations. The plan carries a home across the depth of the tower so that rooms and terraces can address more than one orientation. In South Florida this often means ocean views in one direction and bay, city or sunset views in the other. The plan turns the apartment from a single-frontage unit into an elevated house with two landscapes.
14 · PRIORITY STATED WITH CAUTION
The claim that Sieger Suarez “innovated” the floor-through or see-through unit comes from the firm’s own history. Through-units existed before its South Florida work, and no independent priority adjudication was found for this master. The defensible claim is repetition and market influence. The practice made the configuration a persistent luxury-tower product across a large regional portfolio.
15 · PRIVATE ELEVATOR ARRIVAL
Private elevators and vestibules reduce the experience of a shared residential corridor. The owner leaves a controlled lift into a foyer belonging to the home, approximating the arrival sequence of a private house. The device also resembles hotel suite planning, where circulation, service and privacy are carefully separated. Sieger Suarez repeatedly used this hybrid to make large buildings feel less collective.
16 · ARRIVAL AS ARCHITECTURE
In the firm’s strongest projects, the entrance is not an afterthought. It determines where service staff move, where guests wait, how the resident encounters the view and whether the apartment opens immediately into a public room or a private threshold. Porsche Design Tower extended this concern to the vehicle. The garage itself became the entrance hall.
17 · THE PRIVATE HOUSE IN THE TOWER
Large terraces, private pools, fireplaces, outdoor kitchens, multiple exposures and direct lift access allowed the practice to sell the idea of a detached house without giving up a high-rise address. This was a central South Florida luxury ambition. Buyers could obtain resort views and services while preserving a controlled domestic territory above the street.
18 · THE HOTEL INSIDE THE CONDOMINIUM
At the same time, the firm designed restaurants, spas, bars, clubrooms, pools, cinemas, business rooms and staffed arrival spaces. Sieger has described the overlap as a bridge between hotels and residence buildings. The architecture can therefore support hospitality without necessarily having a hotel operator. Porsche Design Tower demonstrates that distinction; St. Regis Bal Harbour demonstrates the co-located operator model.
19 · PHOTOGRAPHABLE ROOMS
Sieger has said that the firm wants every room to be photographable. The phrase captures the market reality of luxury residential architecture in the digital era. It also carries a risk: image can outrun use. The best projects balance a memorable stair, lobby or view axis with durable circulation, servicing and maintenance. The Library credits the pair where the image is produced by the plan rather than pasted onto it.
20 · ARCHITECTURE BEFORE INTERIORS
The practice often works with prominent interior designers, including Yabu Pushelberg and Armani/Casa. Sieger has described the architect’s role as establishing architectural imagery before interior specialists intensify the experience. This is a useful boundary. The pair should not be credited with every finish or piece of furniture in the buildings they designed.
21 · SOUTH FLORIDA AS LABORATORY
Miami-Dade’s oceanfront sites, international buyers and condominium finance created an unusual test bed for luxury high-rise living. Repetition across Sunny Isles, Miami Beach, Bal Harbour and Brickell allowed the practice to refine details over decades. The region was not passive. Hurricane exposure, salt air, zoning variation, flood risk, parking demand and high land values forced the model to become technically specific.
22 · CLIMATE AND ENVELOPE
Floor-to-ceiling glazing and deep terraces offer panoramic views but expose façades to wind-driven rain, solar gain, salt and storm pressure. Private pools and outdoor kitchens add water, gas and equipment at elevation. The architectural promise therefore depends on consultants, testing and maintenance. The pair’s work belongs to a collective coastal construction culture, not to drawing alone.
23 · PARKING AS A DESIGN PROBLEM
South Florida luxury buyers often arrive by car, while coastal sites leave little room for horizontal garages. The practice repeatedly worked with structured, robotic or vertically transported parking. Parking became part of the architecture’s identity. This produced the breakthrough at Porsche Design Tower and the cautionary record at BrickellHouse.
24 · PORTOFINO AND MURANO SEQUENCE
The firm’s selected works include Portofino Tower, Murano, Murano Grande and Icon South Beach. These projects helped establish the large-balcony, high-amenity, view-driven condominium that preceded the later branded towers. They are not all LHL anchors and should not be treated as equal milestones. Their value is genealogical: they show the planning language developing before automotive branding made it internationally visible.
25 · APOGEE
Apogee South Beach, completed in 2008, contains only 67 residences in a 22- or 23-level building, depending on counting convention. Related Group credits Sieger Suarez as architect and Yabu Pushelberg with the interiors. The project is an important pre-Porsche proof of low-density, large-plan luxury. It concentrated the firm’s flow-through, private-arrival and expansive-terrace method in a boutique tower.
26 · WHY APOGEE MATTERS
Apogee shows that the pair’s authorship did not begin with a car-brand licence. The architectural product already existed: few residences, long views, large rooms, privacy and club-like common areas. Porsche Design Tower later added a new mechanical arrival to that established domestic framework.
27 · ST. REGIS BAL HARBOUR
The St. Regis Bal Harbour complex joined hotel, private residences and retail in three oceanfront towers. Sieger Suarez records it as a built hotel-residential-retail project, while Marriott identifies the practice as architect of the resort. This is the clearest hospitality anchor before Porsche. The architects had to organise owners, hotel guests, service teams, dining, spa, pools and branded arrival within one property.
28 · A GENUINE OPERATOR CASE
Unlike Porsche Design Tower, St. Regis Bal Harbour has an operating hotel. Marriott continues to market and run the resort, and residence roles are connected to St. Regis service infrastructure. The comparison establishes the pair’s range. They could design both an owner-managed condominium with hospitality amenities and a co-located hotel residence supported by a global operator.
29 · SERVICE SEPARATION
A hotel-residential complex requires separate ownership, security, back-of-house circulation, loading, staff access and accounting while allowing selected services to cross boundaries. The architecture must make those divisions functional without making the resident feel trapped inside an institutional diagram. The St. Regis project helped the practice develop that capability.
30 · BRICKELLHOUSE
BrickellHouse, built in the mid-2010s, was designed with a large automated parking system occupying 13 levels. Sieger Suarez records the project as a 374-unit mixed-use tower with robotic parking. The project demonstrates that the office was exploring mechanised vehicle storage beyond the private sky garage.
31 · THE BRICKELLHOUSE FAILURE
The original automated parking system at BrickellHouse closed shortly after the building opened because of major operating problems. The condominium association later pursued legal remedies and commissioned a replacement system from ParkPlus. This failure belongs in the pair’s record because it exposes the risk of making proprietary machinery essential to residential life. It does not prove that the architects designed the failed machinery or alone controlled its procurement.
32 · THE LESSON OF BRICKELLHOUSE
Architecture can reserve the volume and circulation for automation, but a working garage depends on the technology provider, controls, commissioning, operator and maintenance contract. A failure in any layer can disable the whole promise. Porsche Design Tower’s full-scale prototype and external risk assessment appear more consequential when read against this regional experience.
33 · PORSCHE DESIGN TOWER AS ANCHOR
Porsche Design Tower is the pair’s primary LHL anchor because the building’s architecture had to be remade around the Dezervator. The 55-foot-wide vehicular core, private garages, circular plan and 132 large residences formed one system. It was not a conventional tower with a branded lobby. The machine penetrated the plan of nearly every home.
34 · THE CENTRAL CORE
Three large passenger-and-vehicle lifts were arranged around the centre of the building. Each had to serve garages positioned at different angles, while ordinary life-safety, passenger and service circulation remained functional. The core therefore became an architectural generator. It dictated geometry, structure, unit distribution and the character of arrival.
35 · GARAGE DOMESTICITY
The architects placed private garages next to residences and often separated the car from the interior by glass. This made collection display possible while preserving fire and environmental separation. The garage became a room at the edge of the home: neither basement parking nor living space, but a new domestic threshold.
36 · THE BALCONY POOL SYSTEM
Porsche Design Tower also placed more than one hundred private pools on residential terraces. The architects coordinated pool position, access, structure and safety details with specialist contractors. The combination of sky garage and private pool made each apartment feel like a vertical villa. It also embedded exceptional maintenance obligations into the architecture.
37 · COLLABORATION WITH GIL DEZER
Gil Dezer supplied the development concept, licensing strategy and patented lift-system proposition. Sieger Suarez translated that proposition into a high-rise that could be permitted, built and sold. Neither authorship should absorb the other. Dezer authored the product and development model; the pair authored the architectural organisation through which it became inhabitable.
38 · COLLABORATION WITH PORSCHE DESIGN
Porsche Design directed the brand layer and participated in functional and aesthetic decisions. The architects remained responsible for the building’s professional architectural work and coordination. The project’s strength came from overlap without false merger: a design brand, a developer, an architect and engineers each held a different part of the result.
39 · DELIVERY IN 2017
Sieger Suarez records Porsche Design Tower as built in 2017. Porsche’s own Newsroom presented the completed project in March of that year. Completion is decisive for the People test. The pair’s claimed innovations were not left at proposal stage; residents moved into the architecture and the vehicle system entered daily service.
40 · RESIDENCES BY ARMANI/CASA
Residences by Armani/Casa gave the practice a different branded brief on the same coastline. The 308-residence tower used Armani/Casa for the interior and identity layer rather than an automotive machine. This project shows that the pair’s architectural system could support a fashion-and-interiors licence without depending on the Dezervator.
41 · BRAND-NEUTRAL STRUCTURE
The Armani project needed a plan and façade capable of carrying another house’s visual language. That is precisely where the practice’s lack of one dominant façade signature became useful. The architects created the high-rise framework; Armani/Casa supplied the branded interior world. The responsibilities remained legible.
42 · REPETITION BEYOND ONE DEVELOPER
The pair worked with different development organisations, including Related Group, Dezer Development and others. This matters because a model reproduced only by one client may be a client system rather than an architectural one. Their private-arrival, flow-through and hospitality-amenity method persisted across developer relationships.
43 · BENTLEY RESIDENCES
Bentley Residences returns directly to the Porsche problem at a larger scale. Sieger Suarez records the design as a 216-residence, 62-floor tower planned with four Dezervators and large private garages. As of the record date it remains under construction. It therefore supports the replication claim but not yet the completed operating record.
44 · SCALING THE MACHINE
Bentley’s four vehicular lifts, larger residences and heavier-car requirements force a second generation of the sky-garage architecture. The system is not simply copied; capacity, structure, turning, garage size and service are recalibrated. The pair’s continued role connects invention case to scaling case.
45 · WHY BENTLEY MATTERS BEFORE COMPLETION
The Library does not admit a person on an announcement, but an under-construction sequel can confirm the direction of a model already proven in a completed anchor. Porsche Design Tower supplies the proof; Bentley supplies the documented reproduction. The distinction prevents the pair’s admission from resting on a future building.
46 · WALDORF ASTORIA MIAMI
The practice also designed Waldorf Astoria Residences Miami, a stacked-cube supertall scheme combining hotel and private residences. Sieger described the lower cubes as hotel and the upper sequence as residential. The building is useful as evidence of the practice’s continuing hotel-residence work. Because it is not yet a completed anchor on the record date, it is not used as the foundation of this card.
47 · WORKING WITH OTHER ARCHITECTS AND DESIGNERS
Luxury towers are often collaborative. The pair has worked alongside interior designers, landscape architects, structural engineers, brand studios and, in some projects, other design architects. The Library attributes only what the evidence supports. It does not turn local architect-of-record responsibility into sole aesthetic authorship, nor does it erase local delivery behind a famous brand name.
48 · YABU PUSHELBERG
Yabu Pushelberg designed interiors for projects including Apogee and St. Regis Bal Harbour. Those spaces contribute materially to the hospitality character associated with the buildings. Sieger and Suárez should be credited for architecture, planning and integration. Interior authorship remains with the interior designers.
49 · ARMANI/CASA
At Residences by Armani/Casa, the fashion house’s interiors are the central branded expression. The architects provided the tower form, residence planning and technical coordination. This division demonstrates the pair’s ability to host another author without losing architectural coherence.
50 · PORSCHE DESIGN
At Porsche Design Tower, brand involvement reached further into function because the lift and automotive narrative defined the building. Even there, the patent, elevator design, architecture and brand direction remain separate evidence streams. The project is collaborative precisely because no one discipline could claim the whole.
51 · STRUCTURAL AND LIFT ENGINEERS
The vehicular core, post-tensioned slabs, transfer platforms, motors and controls were engineering work. Robert Bailey III and Mid-American Elevator are specifically documented in the Dezervator record. The architectural pair made room for the system and integrated it into the home. They did not invent every mechanical component.
52 · LANDSCAPE AND WATER
Terraces, pool decks, planting and private pools required landscape, water-feature and specialist input. The firm’s relationship with EGS2 expanded its ability to coordinate these layers. Again, comprehensive practice should not be confused with individual authorship. The master preserves the consultants’ territory.
53 · THE DEVELOPER’S AUTHORSHIP
Developers selected sites, set programmes, carried finance, chose brands and decided what the market could support. Gil Dezer, Jorge Pérez and others are not passive clients in these buildings. The pair’s contribution is architectural translation: turning development ambition into repeatable spatial and technical form.
54 · A METHOD RATHER THAN A LOOK
The most useful summary of the pair’s work is a method: - open the home across more than one view; - reduce shared corridor experience; - make arrival private; - enlarge outdoor domestic space; - concentrate hotel-like amenities below or between residences; and - turn parking from back-of-house necessity into a designed experience. The façades change because the method can serve different sites and brands.
55 · WHO REPRODUCED IT
The exact floor-through apartment was not invented once and then legally copied. It spread through South Florida’s luxury market across competing firms and developments. Private elevator foyers, broad terraces and resort-scale amenities became expected in the upper tier. Automotive residences then reproduced the more specific sky-garage proposition through Bentley and through related car-at-home projects elsewhere.
56 · THE PRIVATE-HOUSE ANALOGY
A detached house offers direct arrival, multiple orientations, outdoor space and control over the threshold. The pair repeatedly sought those qualities in high-rise apartments. The analogy is never complete. Owners still share structure, lifts, façade, staff, insurance and governance. Good luxury architecture makes that collective reality feel discreet without pretending it has disappeared.
57 · THE HOSPITALITY ANALOGY
A hotel offers arrival ritual, service spaces, dining, wellness and managed common rooms. The pair repeatedly brought those functions into residences. The analogy also has limits. A standalone condominium has no room revenue or hotel operator to subsidise service; owners must fund it directly. Porsche Design Tower makes that economic boundary visible.
58 · OPERATIONAL CONSEQUENCES OF DESIGN
Private pools require waterproofing and inspection. Robotic parking requires software, motors and long-term support. Restaurants need kitchens, staff and viable budgets. Large glazed façades require access and replacement planning. The pair’s innovations therefore create operating obligations as well as saleable difference. Their record must be read through both lenses.
59 · MAINTENANCE AS PART OF AUTHORSHIP
An architect does not control an association decades after turnover, but systems should be designed for access, replacement and contingency. The more proprietary the feature, the more important this becomes. BrickellHouse and Porsche Design Tower show two outcomes: one parking system failed and required replacement; the other remained in service but required upgrades and specialist attention.
60 · WHY NOT OWNERS & BUILDERS
Sieger and Suárez did not enter the Library because they owned the towers, financed the projects or sold the units. Their documented role is architectural. Group III would confuse professional authorship with development risk. Group VII preserves the boundary while recognising that architecture helped create the commercial model.
61 · WHY GROUP VII
Designers & Architects includes people whose work changed how luxury hospitality or branded living is physically experienced. The pair repeatedly shaped arrival, view, privacy, amenity and service in buildings that combine residence with hospitality behaviour. Their strongest evidence lies in built architecture rather than in corporate leadership.
62 · WHY NOT CHARLES ALONE
Charles is the older founder, public spokesman and architect most often interviewed. He established the office and articulated much of its philosophy. Yet the mature portfolio was created after Suárez joined and became partner. A single-name card would overstate the separability of authorship.
63 · WHY NOT JOSÉ ALONE
Suárez helped build the firm, holds the current corporate role and is credited by the practice as an integral force in reshaping Miami’s skyline. His contribution is not a secondary footnote. At the same time, the publicly available record contains fewer individual interviews and project-by-project attributions for him. The joint card avoids inventing a false solo catalogue.
64 · THE OFFICE BEYOND THE PAIR
The firm includes partners, project architects, technical staff, landscape specialists and administrators. Over decades, many unnamed people produced drawings, coordinated consultants and managed construction. The pair stands for the practice’s authorship, not for sole labour. The master should never be read as erasing that office.
65 · QUANTITY AND SELF-PUBLISHED FIGURES
The practice states that it has designed more than 75,000 South Florida residences and projects representing more than $20 billion of construction. These are firm-published figures and were not independently audited for this entry. They provide scale context but are not the reason for admission.
66 · THE 42-YEAR CLAIM
The firm’s current history page describes a 42-year reputation even though the corporation dates to 1972, more than five decades before the record date. The page may preserve older website copy. The Library uses dated corporate and biographical evidence rather than repeating the stale duration.
67 · CHRONOLOGY CONFLICT
Mansion Global wrote that Sieger and Suárez co-founded the firm in 1980. The firm itself says Suárez joined Sieger’s office as an apprentice in 1980 and became partner in 1987; Florida records show the corporation filed in 1972. The latter sequence is more precise. “Co-founded in 1980” is retained as journalistic shorthand, not the legal or professional chronology.
68 · BUILDING COUNTS AND CONVENTIONS
Project pages disagree with other sources on floor counts: Porsche may be 58, 59 or 60 floors; St. Regis may be 27 or 28; Apogee may be 22 or 23. These differences usually reflect counting conventions rather than different buildings. The master avoids using floor count as evidence of authorship and preserves the source-specific numbers where relevant.
69 · CONTESTED INVENTION LANGUAGE
The firm’s own description credits it with innovation in floor-through planning, private elevators and robotic parking. The public record confirms repeated use but does not establish exclusive invention or patent ownership for those broad categories. The Library therefore calls the practice a major regional author and normaliser, not the universal inventor of each device.
70 · CANDOUR
This entry relies heavily on the practice’s own project archive because full architectural monographs and drawings were not publicly available for every building. Individual responsibility between Sieger, Suárez and project teams is not documented project by project. The joint card is an editorial judgment grounded in the partnership’s continuity. BrickellHouse’s failed original parking system is included because it tests the operating consequences of the firm’s planning, but no source reviewed establishes that the architects selected, engineered or caused the failed machinery. Bentley and Waldorf remain incomplete and are not treated as delivered proof.
71 · TIMELINE
1946 — Charles M. Sieger was born. 1957 — José J. Suárez was born. 1969–1970 — Sieger completed architectural degrees at Florida and Pennsylvania. 1972 — Sieger began practice; the Florida corporation was filed. 1980 — Suárez joined the office as an apprentice. 1981 — Suárez graduated from the University of Miami. 1987 — Suárez became partner; Sieger was elected to the AIA College of Fellows. 2005–2008 — Icon South Beach and Apogee consolidated the flow-through luxury-tower model. 2010s — St. Regis Bal Harbour, BrickellHouse, Porsche Design Tower and Armani/Casa expanded the method into hotel, robotic-parking and branded-residence forms. 2019–2026 — Bentley and Waldorf projects carried the office’s model into a new generation.
72 · LHL CONNECTIONS
Primary anchor: LHL-A-003 · Porsche Design Tower. Direct architectural sequel: LHL-A-002 · Bentley Residences. Maison-residence connection: LHL-R-003 Armani Residences · Armani Residences. Hospitality-residence connection: LHL-R-224 St. Regis Residences · St. Regis Residences, through The St. Regis Bal Harbour Resort. People connection: Gil Dezer, whose development and patent authorship intersects with the pair at Porsche and Bentley. Engineering connection: Robert Bailey III, designer of the first completed Dezervator system.
73 · THE CLAIM IN ONE SENTENCE
Charles M. Sieger and José J. Suárez made the South Florida luxury tower behave like a private house with hotel manners: two-sided views, controlled arrival, expansive outdoor rooms and service architecture, culminating in the first occupied residence where the owner’s car arrived at the front door by lift. That method proved durable because it worked with different developers, brands and operating structures.
74 · FINAL ASSESSMENT
The pair did not create a globally recognisable façade style, and that is not the source of their importance. They created a development-compatible architectural grammar that allowed high-rise residences to promise privacy, domestic scale and hospitality within dense coastal towers. Porsche Design Tower is the decisive anchor because its architecture could not be separated from the new arrival machine. Apogee and St. Regis show the method before it; Armani/Casa shows it carrying a different brand; Bentley shows it being enlarged. The sequence satisfies the Library’s test. ## Sources Signed source titles below are active hyperlinks. Accessed August 2026. 1. Sieger Suarez Architects · [About the Firm and Principals](https://www.siegersuarez.com/about-our-award-winning-firm.html) 2. Florida Department of State, Division of Corporations · [The Sieger Suarez Architectural Partnership, Inc. — entity record](https://search.sunbiz.org/Inquiry/CorporationSearch/SearchResultDetail?aggregateId=domp-433016-4e6cc9cc-ebf3-44f4-96ab-de4f7a8cf8c3&directionType=PreviousList&inquirytype=EntityName&listNameOrder=SIEGERASSOCIATES+M264740&searchNameOrder=SIEGERSUAREZARCHITECTURALPARTN+4330161) 3. Mansion Global · [Designing Buildings for the Luxury Buyer Is a Balancing Act, 7 March 2022](https://www.mansionglobal.com/articles/designing-buildings-for-the-luxury-buyer-is-a-balancing-act-says-miami-architect-01646653623) 4. Sieger Suarez Architects · [Selected Works](https://www.siegersuarez.com/sieger-suarez-featured-projects.html) 5. Sieger Suarez Architects · [Apogee, Miami Beach](https://siegersuarez.com/projects/apogee-miami-beach-florida.html) 6. Sieger Suarez Architects · [St. Regis, Bal Harbour](https://www.siegersuarez.com/projects/st-regis-bal-harbour-florida.html) 7. Marriott International · [The St. Regis Bal Harbour Resort](https://www.marriott.com/en-us/hotels/miaxr-the-st-regis-bal-harbour-resort/overview/) 8. Sieger Suarez Architects · [BrickellHouse, Miami](https://siegersuarez.com/projects/brickell-house-miami-florida.html) 9. ParkPlus · [Brickell House Automated Parking System Retrofit](https://parkplusinc.com/brickell-house-agv-automated-parking/) 10. Sieger Suarez Architects · [Porsche Design Tower, Sunny Isles Beach](https://www.siegersuarez.com/projects/porsche-sunny-isles-beach-florida.html) 11. Sieger Suarez Architects · [Residences by Armani/Casa](https://www.siegersuarez.com/projects/armani-casa-sunny-isles-beach-florida.html) 12. Sieger Suarez Architects · [Bentley Residences](https://siegersuarez.com/projects/Bentley.html)