Sunny Isles Beach has spent the last decade quietly evolving from a Collins Avenue resort row into one of the most consequential luxury condominium corridors in the United States. Bentley Residences is its most singular announcement to date — the first residential project in the world to carry the Bentley name, and the first to translate the British marque's design vocabulary into a 749-foot oceanfront tower.
The site is rare: a full 2.4 acres of beachfront with roughly 200 feet of sand, framed by the Atlantic to the east and the Intracoastal to the west. Sieger Suarez Architects shaped the silhouette as a single sweeping glass volume, wrapped in a diamond-patterned facade drawn directly from the quilted leather and matrix grilles that have defined Bentley interiors for nearly a century. The result reads less like a condominium and more like a piece of industrial design scaled to the coastline.
What distinguishes Bentley Residences from any other branded tower in South Florida is the Dezervator. Owners arrive at the porte-cochère, drive onto a glass-enclosed vehicular lift, and ride upward — car and driver together — to a private sky garage adjoining their residence. Each home accommodates three to four vehicles in this private garage, eliminating the valet ticket, the parking deck, and the disconnect between collection and home. For a buyer whose garage is also a gallery, the architecture finally catches up to the lifestyle.