Elysée: Edgewater's Telescoping Bayfront Tower

Edgewater's telescoping bayfront tower

Elysée is one of Edgewater's most distinctive addresses: a 57-story tower on Biscayne Bay whose form telescopes as it rises, stepping back in tiers so the silhouette tapers toward the top. Completed in 2022 at 788 NE 23rd Street, it was designed by Bernardo Fort-Brescia of Arquitectonica — the firm behind much of Miami's modern skyline — and developed by Two Roads Development. Where many bayfront towers maximize unit count, Elysée does the opposite: just 100 residences fill all 57 stories, a deliberately low density that shapes everything about how the building lives.

The Jean-Louis Deniot interiors

The name most often attached to Elysée is not the architect's but the interior designer's. Jean-Louis Deniot, the Paris-based designer known for restrained, collector-grade interiors, shaped the residences and common spaces here, and that pedigree is central to the building's appeal. Deniot's hand shows in the material palette and in the sense that the interiors were composed rather than merely finished. For buyers who treat a home as a curated object rather than a set of square feet, the Deniot association is the reason Elysée reads differently from the glass-and-marble sameness of much new construction.

One hundred residences, private-elevator living

With only 100 residences across 57 floors, Elysée's layouts are generous by design: half-floor and full-floor plans, per our building data, each entered through a private elevator landing so there are no shared corridors. Ceilings run from 10 to 12 feet, and the residences range from two to five bedrooms. The effect is closer to a stack of single-family floors than a conventional condominium — you arrive at your own foyer, and the bay is the view from nearly every principal room. That private-elevator, half-floor format is the building's structural argument for its position in the market.

The sky lounge and amenity program

Elysée's signature amenity is a three-level sky lounge set high in the tower, which our building data describes as including a wine and cigar room — an entertaining space with the bay and skyline as its backdrop rather than a ground-floor club. The building pairs that with the bayfront amenities Edgewater towers are built around: a pool deck, fitness and spa facilities, and direct bay frontage. Because the program is scaled to the resident count, 100 households share amenities that larger towers spread across three or four times as many owners.

What it costs to own at Elysée

Elysée sits in the upper tier of the Edgewater market. Our directory's listed range for residences here runs from roughly $1.3 million to $9 million, with an average around $1,080 per square foot — figures that reflect the half-floor layouts, the Deniot interiors and the bayfront position. Monthly HOA dues run near $1.25 per square foot in our data, funding the staff, the sky lounge, the bay amenities and the upkeep a 57-story tower requires. Treat all of these as our directory's estimates rather than live quotes; for what is actually listed and at what price today, our Elysée building profile and the live report at /market-stats are the places to check current numbers.

Edgewater as an address

Location is part of the pitch. Edgewater runs along Biscayne Bay just north of downtown Miami, a neighborhood that has filled in over the past decade with glass towers, Margaret Pace Park on the water, and quick access to the Design District, Wynwood and Brickell. It trades the beach for the bay — sunset-facing water views back toward the skyline rather than the open Atlantic — and for many buyers that mainland-bayfront position, minutes from downtown and the airport, is the point. Elysée's slender footprint and setback give its residences long, largely unobstructed looks up and down the bay.

Who Elysée is for

Elysée fits a specific buyer: someone who wants a low-density, half-floor residence with designer interiors and bay views, and who values privacy and provenance over the amenities-and-nightlife arms race of larger towers. It is less suited to a buyer who wants a big-building social scene or the lowest possible monthly dues. If a Deniot-designed, private-elevator home on the Edgewater bayfront is the idea, start with our Elysée building profile and our Edgewater neighborhood guide, and check /market-stats for where the numbers stand today.

Questions buyers ask about Elysée