Longboat Key's barrier island had not seen a development of this scale in fifty years when the St. Regis Longboat Key Resort opened in August 2024, its five floors and 168 rooms spread across eighteen Gulf-front acres designed by 10 Design. The massing is confidently modern — white concrete and full-height glazing stepping back from a broad white-sand beach, a private pier extending straight into the luminous turquoise shallows — without the pastiche Mediterranean detailing that dominates so much of Florida's resort coast. From the air, the complex reads as a series of horizontal planes interspersed with palm-threaded pool terraces and lawn, the geometry softened by landscape rather than ornament. Inside, HBA Miami and Dutch East Design drew on Sarasota's performing arts and circus legacy for an interior programme that grows more theatrical as you move deeper into the building. The guest rooms keep things quieter: wide-plank oak floors, upholstered headboards in textured grey, white marble side tables, floor-to-ceiling sliders framing the Gulf on three sides. The real drama belongs to the bar, where warm walnut panelling curves up into a sculptural coffered ceiling, a fireplace surround in heavily veined black-and-white marble dominates one wall, and brass-footed stools line a grey marble counter while a mosaic floor sets the whole room glittering. The pool terrace restaurants are more relaxed, shaded by articulated white pergolas and furnished with rattan seating, the whole arrangement oriented to catch the slow Gulf light.

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