Which are Miami’s tallest towers? Here’s an authoritative top 10

Miami is loaded with lofty skyscrapers. In one authoritative measure, its skyline is ranked third-tallest in the country.

But Miami’s first supertall building, the Waldorf Astoria Hotel & Residences, will make the city’s other skyscrapers seem like runts once it’s completed.

A supertall is a building that exceeds 300 meters — or roughly 984 feet — in height. And at 1,049 feet and 100 stories, the Waldorf, which just started construction on Biscayne Boulevard downtown, will tower over everything else around it.

No other Miami tower comes close. Now the titleholder as Miami’s tallest, the residential Panorama Tower in Brickell, will fall short of the Waldorf by a full 222 feet, or about 20 stories — the height of what was once upon a time considered a high-rise.

Given skyscraper envy, the subject of building heights can be, perhaps unsurprisingly, a contentious one. Reported building heights can vary, sometimes considerably, depending on whether spires, antennas, parapets or other architectural toppings are counted as part of the structure, and what precisely constitutes the ground floor. A spiky top can make the difference between a tower being declared the world’s tallest, or just an also-ran.

In Miami, for instance, developers of one of the city’s 10 tallest — Brickell’s Flatiron — claim it’s 736 feet tall. But the Council on Tall Buildings and the Urban Habitat, which is considered the international gold standard on defining building heights, puts it at 698 feet.

Here, according to the council, are the tallest buildings in Miami, either completed or under construction:

1. Panorama Tower,

827 feet

2. Aston Martin Residences, 817 feet (under construction) 3. Four Seasons Hotel

and Tower, 789 feet

4. 1 Southside Park, 773 feet (under construction) 5. Southeast Financial

Center, 764 feet

6. 830 Brickell, 724 feet (under construction) 7. Marquis, 702 feet

8. One Thousand Museum,

699 feet

9. Paramount Miami Worldcenter, 699 feet

10. Brickell Flatiron, 698 feet

The Panorama Tower at 827 feet is currently Miami’s tallest building

PEDRO PORTAL pportal@miamiherald.com View of the Panorama Tower (center), a mixed-use 85-story skyscraper at 1100 Brickell Bay Dr. that is the tallest building in Miami.

Aston Martin Residences.

DOUG BENC AP Images for World Satellite Television News The Paramount Miami Worldcenter tower is characterized by its 13,400 programmable LED lights.

One Thousand Museum residences.