Where the Miami River empties into Biscayne Bay, at the edge of a downtown that spent years trying to prove it was more than a business district, a curved glass tower designed by Arquitectonica opened in 2008 as one of the more convincing arguments that Brickell had arrived. The Kimpton EPIC Hotel fills 54 floors of that tower — its sweeping facade visible from the MacArthur Causeway — with 411 rooms and suites that lean into the building's geometry rather than fighting it. Corner suites at upper floors wrap floor-to-ceiling glass around two city-facing walls, the curved curtain wall turning the Miami River and Biscayne Bay into a continuous panorama from walnut-framed beds and low-slung lounge chairs in cognac leather. The interiors pursue a coastal-contemporary register: pale stone floors, upholstered headboards in dove grey linen, teal accents that pick up the color of the pool deck below. That deck operates across two levels — a ground-floor pool sheltered by the tower's curving white balconies, furnished with oversized woven pod chairs, and an upper terrace bar surfaced in richly veined marble with wicker seating shaded by standard-trained ficus trees. The rooftop perspective, visible in the images, frames Brickell's residential towers in every direction — a skyline that barely existed when Arquitectonica first broke ground, and that now makes the EPIC's position at the waterfront edge feel less like coincidence than foresight.

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A 4-star luxury waterfront hotel set in downtown Miami featuring a 16th floor pool deck, 15,000 square foot Exhale spa, and panoramic views of Biscayne Bay and Brickell Key.