You may have heard about this. The Porsche tower, one of the most buzzed-about super-lux condos in Greater Miami.
I was attending my neice’s wedding this past weekend and was able to have a private tour of this exclusive and architecturally significant High-Rise in North Miami Beach.
The very Germanic, all-black cylindrical tower was designed by Miami’s Sieger Suarez Architects, with sleek interiors by Porsche Design and Miami’s Michael Wolk. It came about when Dezer, who built a pair of three-tower Trump-branded condo projects in Sunny Isles, was approached by Porsche Design — an offshoot of the automaker famed for its product and industrial designs — to collaborate on a branded condo.
The circular elevators are in the building’s hollow, 60-story-tall core. Each weighs 30,000 pounds and can lift a maximum of 8,000 pounds, or a ton more than the heaviest car made, a Rolls-Royce Phantom, Dezer said.
The lifts are fully automated, so residents can ride with the car, or take a regular elevator.
In the ground-floor garage, rounded glass doors slide open to a sort of vestibule as a vehicle approaches. A turntable spins the car into position as a powerful dolly — designed in Germany and costing about $1 million each, Dezer said — lifts the car gently and moves it into the elevator. The reason for the dollies: The fire department insisted that car ignitions must be turned off.
As the elevator car goes up, at an ear-popping 800 feet per minute, the dolly spins it into position again, with the motion giving passengers the distinct feeling they’re on a Disney ride. Once it’s home, the dolly delivers the car into the garage, then withdraws discreetly.
This is not for mere mortals: The tower’s 132 condos started at $5 million, with a few still left at $6 million and up. The asking prices top off at $32 million for a still-available four-story penthouse with room for up to 11 cars, seven of them in a museum-like “car gallery,” 56 stories up in the air.
