Two internationally recognized real estate development firms – Sumaida + Khurana and Bizzi & Partners - have announced a new joint venture to develop best-in-class buildings across the United States. Their first project is an office building located in South Beach and designed by renowned Spanish master architect Alberto Campo Baeza. The developers’ objective is to deliver a Class A+ building that sets a new benchmark for architecture and quality in the office market. Perfectly situated at the entrance to Miami Beach from the MacArthur Causeway, it will be Baeza’s first building in Miami, as well as his first commercial building in the United States. Sumaida + Khurana is led by Saif Sumaida and Amit Khurana. Bizzi & Partners is headed by CEO Davide Bizzi and Managing Director Alessandro Pallaoro.
Bizzi & Partners and Sumaida + Khurana are individually known the world over for developing some of the most significant real estate projects in the world, collaborating with critically acclaimed designers. Bizzi & Partners, which has offices in New York, Milan, São Paulo, and Tallinn, worked with Pritzker Prize winning architect Renzo Piano to design both 565 Broome SoHo in Manhattan and Eighty Seven Park in Miami. The firm also developed the Langham Hotel in New York, designed by Charles Gwathmey. The firms recently decided to collaborate and will develop a wide range of luxury residential and commercial buildings across America through the new partnership. New York-based Sumaida + Khurana collaborated with Pritzker Prize winning architect, Tadao Ando to design 152 Elizabeth Street, as well as Pritzker Laureate, Alvaro Siza for 611 West 56th Street.
While the firms have generally focused on luxury residential development, the new partnership is also focused on elevating the quality level of office development by delivering the architectural pedigree, custom quality finishes, bespoke amenities and services delivered at their residential projects.
“We are happy to be entering into this new joint venture and are excited by the opportunity to be collaborating with Alberto Campo Baeza. His work speaks to both firms’ shared set of beliefs to create timeless buildings that are contextually appropriate and that thoughtfully consider the historic architecture of neighborhoods like South Beach,” said Davide Bizzi, Chief Executive Officer, Bizzi & Partners.
“We have a great deal of respect for one another’s projects and approach to development. We share in the vision to create seminal buildings that add significant value to the built environment. Alberto Campo Baeza’s buildings are known for their purity of design and subtle detailing. Similar to the other projects that our firms have developed, Campo Baeza’s design will provide the opportunity to deliver a building of exquisite craftsmanship and quality,” said Amit Khurana, Founding Partner, Sumaida + Khurana.
In the coming months, Sumaida + Khurana and Bizzi & Partners plan to release more details about the Baeza building, which is expected to start construction next summer. Project executive architect is the award-winning firm, Cube 3. World renowned architecture firm, Gabellini Sheppard is designing interiors. Miami-based Urban Robot Associates is the project’s landscape architect.
The building will be made of white concrete, glass, and marble. Many of its features including high ceilings, open and flexible floorplans, expansive private outdoor terraces for all offices, floor-to-ceiling windows, a fitness center, multiple F & B venues, and a large atrium that opens up all of the offices to a dramatic experience of light, air, and outdoor space for tenants, and a private rooftop with expansive water views.
Based in Spain, Baeza has been widely recognized for his work including winning his country’s National Prize for Architecture in 2021. He has designed the Houses Turégano and de Blas, both in Madrid, the Gaspar House, Asencio House in Cádiz, Rufo House in Toledo and Moliner House in Zaragoza. He has also designed the BIT Center in Inca-Mallorca, the public space Between Cathedrals, in Cádiz, the Caja de Granada Savings Bank and the Museum of Memory of Andalucía, both in Granada. In 2020, he won the competition for the new bridge over the Piave River in Belluno, Venice.
Bizzi & Partners and Sumaida + Khurana are currently in the process of finalizing details on additional developments they plan to announce in the near future.
Sketch of South Beach Office by Alberto Campo Baeza