Arte Surfside Floor Plans | Antonio Citterio 16 Oceanfront Residences Guide

Arte Surfside by Antonio Citterio — Floor Plans

At 8955 Collins Avenue in Surfside, Florida, Arte is the most precisely resolved building in this entire MPE floor plan series in terms of the ratio between architectural ambition and residential scale. Developed by Alex Sapir and Giovanni Fasciano of Sapir Corp, designed by Antonio Citterio and Patricia Viel of ACPV Architects — the same Milan-based firm whose other works in this series include the Residences at 1428 Brickell (the world's first solar-powered luxury high-rise) and the Four Seasons Private Residences Coconut Grove — with Kobi Karp as executive architect and landscape by Enzo Enea, Arte was completed in 2020 as Antonio Citterio's first residential project in the United States.

The building contains exactly 16 residences across 12 stories — the maximum height permitted by Surfside's building code. Every residence is unique. Every residence spans either a full floor or a half-floor. Every residence is flow-through. Every residence comes with its own three-car air-conditioned private garage within the building. And every residence looks directly at the Atlantic Ocean from floor-to-ceiling glass wrapped in a custom Schüco bronze window system that is specific to this building and does not appear in any other residential tower in South Florida.

The lobby contains a permanent installation by Olafur Eliasson — the Danish-Icelandic artist whose work is in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Tate Modern in London, and who created the Weather Project installation at the Tate that is one of the most attended museum art events in European history. The installation — Polychromatic Chronology — is a ring of 24 crystal spheres anchoring the Arte lobby as a permanent artwork rather than a decorative element. No other building in the Surfside, Bal Harbour, or Sunny Isles Beach market contains a permanent Eliasson installation.

Current resale listings range from approximately $8 million to $30 million.

Arte Surfside — Floor Plans at a Glance

16 Entirely Unique Floor Plans

The most fundamental floor plan fact at Arte Surfside: all 16 residences are different from each other. This is not a stylistic marketing claim. It is the architectural reality produced by Citterio's design — which treats each residence as an individually conceived home rather than a type that repeats across multiple floors. The floor plan range confirms this: the building spans three- to six-bedroom configurations from 3,126 to 7,681 interior square feet. No two residences in the building are identical.

The consequence for buyers is the same as at Echo Brickell, Elysee Miami, and the Ritz-Carlton Residences Miami Beach — every unit must be evaluated individually, and the specific floor plan at a specific floor level determines the buyer's experience in ways that cannot be generalized from a bedroom count alone.

Half-Floor Residences — 3,126 to ~4,500 Square Feet

Half-floor configurations at Arte are the building's most accessible entry tier — two residences sharing a single floor with each spanning roughly half the floor plate. At 3,126 to approximately 4,500 interior square feet, the half-floor plans are the smallest configurations in the building and simultaneously among the largest standard floor plans available in any building in the Surfside market.

Every half-floor residence includes the complete Arte specification:

• Private elevator with fingerprint biometric access opening into a dedicated foyer
• Flow-through floor plan — Atlantic Ocean views on the east face, Intracoastal Waterway and city views on the west face, from within the primary living areas
• Floor-to-ceiling glass in the Schüco bronze window system throughout all principal rooms
• Roman travertine terraces — the exterior terrace surfaces are finished in travertine rather than the tile or porcelain common to most South Florida luxury buildings, connecting the outdoor living space to the building's Mediterranean material language
• Three-car air-conditioned private garage included with each residence — a standard feature, not a premium
• European white oak flooring throughout all living and bedroom areas
• Roman travertine in living, dining, and entertaining areas
• Bulthaup kitchen — the Munich-based kitchen design house whose "workshop kitchen" philosophy is Citterio's preferred kitchen specification, appearing here as his first full residential implementation in the United States
• Miele appliance suite throughout
• Primary bathrooms with Roman travertine floors and walls, custom vanities, and Dornbracht fixtures
• Fully built-out wardrobes in all primary suites
• In-unit laundry with full-size washer and dryer

The three-car air-conditioned garage included with every half-floor residence is the floor plan specification detail most distinctive to Arte within the context of the broader Surfside and Bal Harbour luxury market. A climate-controlled private garage for three vehicles — not a valet arrangement, not a shared parking level, but a dedicated three-car garage that is part of each individual residence — is a specification that in this MPE series appears otherwise only at Porsche Design Tower, Bentley Residences, Palazzo Del Sol Fisher Island's villas, and the Mansions at Acqualina. At Arte Surfside, it is standard across all 16 residences.

Full-Floor Residences — ~5,500 to ~6,000 Square Feet

Full-floor configurations at Arte occupy an entire floor plate — one residence for the full level — in four- and five-bedroom layouts from approximately 5,500 to 6,000 interior square feet. At this scale, the flow-through floor plan's full east-to-west span is available as a single residence — the Atlantic Ocean on the east, the Intracoastal and Miami skyline on the west, from within a home that no neighbor shares at the floor level.

The full-floor format at Arte reflects Citterio's stated design philosophy for the building: he described Arte Surfside as being "designed around a Mediterranean way of life" — a residential culture where scale, proportion, and the quality of light and air are primary design values rather than amenity count or view floor count. A full-floor Arte residence at 5,500 to 6,000 square feet with travertine terraces on both the ocean and Intracoastal faces is the most direct physical expression of that philosophy in any building currently on the Miami luxury resale market.

Residence 202 — The Two-Story Beach Villa

Residence 202 at Arte Surfside is the building's most singular floor plan and one of the most extraordinary residential configurations in this entire MPE floor plan series — a two-story flow-through beach villa on floors 2 and 3 of the building that functions architecturally as a private beachfront house rather than as a condominium unit.

Confirmed in active listing language:

• Two full floors of interior space with a private internal connection between levels
• Grand estate-sized living areas spanning the full building width
• Expansive deep terraces with direct ocean and sunset views on both levels
• Two gourmet chef-style kitchens with gas range — one kitchen per floor, a domestic programming depth uncommon in any building in this series
• Private spiral staircase leading directly to the spa amenities and beach — a private connection from within the residence to the building's spa level and the Atlantic beachfront, bypassing all shared building corridors
• Private elevator with fingerprint recognition entry from within the residence itself

The private spiral staircase to the spa and beach is the floor plan detail that most directly expresses the beach villa concept at work. In a conventional condominium, the path from a second-floor residence to the beach runs through shared elevators, a lobby, and a ground-level access point. In Residence 202, a private internal spiral staircase within the residence connects the owner directly to the spa level and the beach without any shared building infrastructure intervening. The first design in this series where a private staircase connects a mid-building residence to the outdoor grounds.

The Two Penthouses — Up to 7,681 Square Feet

Two penthouses crown Arte Surfside at the building's 11th and 12th floors — the largest floor plans in the building at up to 7,681 interior square feet. The penthouses are full-floor residences with expanded terrace proportions at the building's crown level, where the Surfside 12-story maximum height cap means the view is at its widest — the full Atlantic horizon to the east, the Intracoastal and Miami skyline to the west, and the Surfside coastline extending in both directions.

At 7,681 SF, the Arte penthouse is among the largest floor plans in any building in Surfside — larger than most penthouses at the Surf Club Four Seasons Residences and Fendi Château Residences, and positioning Arte's crown on par with the Oceana Bal Harbour and Jade Signature penthouse tiers in its scale. The crown penthouses at Arte are among the most rarely available listings in the Surfside market and when available are consistently priced at the absolute top of the neighborhood's residential range.

The Pyramid-Pagoda Form — How Citterio's Architecture Shapes Every Floor Plan

Antonio Citterio's exterior design for Arte Surfside is described across multiple sources as evoking simultaneously a modern pagoda and a Mediterranean villa stacked pyramid — two references that at first appear contradictory but resolve in the building's stepped, terraced silhouette. The building's floors step back as they rise, creating a staircase profile that delivers:

Progressively deeper terraces at higher floors. As each floor steps back from the one below, the resulting setback becomes additional terrace depth for the residence above. The upper-floor Arte residences have deeper, more expansive terrace environments than the lower floors — a floor plan quality that escalates with altitude in a way that straight-wall towers cannot produce.

A recognizable skyline profile. Arte is immediately distinguishable from any other building in Surfside, Bal Harbour, or North Miami Beach from the street and from the ocean — the stepped pyramid silhouette reads as a single deliberate architectural statement rather than a generic glass tower. For residents whose building identification is part of their address identity, Arte's profile is among the most memorable of any building in this series.

A low-rise experience at every floor. At 12 stories with stepped-back floor plates, every Arte residence — from the second floor to the penthouse — has a terrace depth and terrace-to-interior proportion that is rarely achievable in buildings taller than 12 stories. The stepped form is the structural mechanism that makes Arte's terrace program competitive with the 12-foot-deep terraces of the Fendi Château Residences and the 14-foot-deep terraces of Murano at Portofino, despite being a glass-facade contemporary tower rather than a hotel-conversion or low-rise boutique building.

The Schüco Bronze Window System

Arte Surfside's custom Schüco bronze window system is one of the building's most technically specific design elements — and one that connects the building's material language directly to its Mediterranean reference. Schüco is a German aluminum and glass facade systems manufacturer whose products are used in some of the world's most technically demanding architectural projects. At Arte, the window and door frames are finished in a bronze color that connects to the travertine terraces, the building's warm material palette, and Citterio's consistent use of metallic accent tones in his Italian residential work.

The bronze window frames are visible from the exterior as the building's primary color accent — the warm metallic tone against the off-white travertine terrace surfaces produces a façade palette that reads as European rather than generically contemporary, which is precisely Citterio's stated intent.

The Olafur Eliasson Lobby — Polychromatic Chronology

Olafur Eliasson — the Danish-Icelandic artist whose work explores light, perception, and natural phenomena at a scale and rigor that has made him one of the most internationally significant artists of the past three decades — created Polychromatic Chronology specifically for the Arte Surfside lobby. The installation is a ring of 24 crystal spheres positioned to interact with the building's natural light and to create a perceptual experience for residents and visitors that is calibrated to the building's oceanfront, light-rich environment.

The Eliasson lobby is Arte's art program equivalent to the Chihuly installation at Regalia, the Koons sculptures at Oceana Bal Harbour, the Botero at SLS Lux Brickell, and the Schnabel program at Brickell Flatiron — permanent commissions by internationally significant artists that establish a cultural register for the building and co-owned as part of the common property. The Eliasson distinction within this group: his reputation and institutional presence — MoMA, Tate Modern, Venice Biennale, the Weather Project — is matched only by the Koons sculptures at Oceana among the art commissions in this series.

The Separate Amenity Building

A distinguishing feature of the Arte campus that is rarely discussed in standard building descriptions: a separate amenity building at 8926 Collins Avenue, directly across the street from the residential tower, contains additional programming that the 12-story residential tower's footprint cannot accommodate:

• Multi-use club room
• Cigar room
• Golf simulator
• Additional parking and 24-hour valet
• Rooftop tennis courts — positioned on the amenity building's rooftop rather than the residential tower's roof, freeing the residential tower's crown for penthouse use

The two-building campus approach — residential tower on the ocean side, amenity building on the street side — reflects Surfside's strict 12-story height limit. By moving the amenity programming that does not require ocean frontage to a separate building across Collins Avenue, Citterio's design preserves the full residential tower's footprint for living space and ocean-facing terraces while still delivering a comprehensive amenity program.

The Full Amenity Program

Residential Tower (8955 Collins):

• 75-foot heated indoor lap pool — one of the longest indoor residential lap pools in the Surfside market
• Outdoor swimming pool with Atlantic Ocean views
• State-of-the-art fitness center and yoga studio
• Spa with treatment rooms and wellness programming
• Meditation pond — a beachfront landscaped water feature designed by Enzo Enea, connecting the building's interior design philosophy to its natural setting
• Dedicated pet park
• Private beach access on Atlantic beachfront
• 24-hour concierge and security
• Three-car air-conditioned garage per residence (all 16 units)

Amenity Building (8926 Collins, across the street):

• Rooftop tennis courts
• Golf simulator
• Multi-use club room and cigar room
• Additional parking and 24-hour valet

The Surfside Context — The Third of the Triumvirate

Arte Surfside completes the triumvirate of Surfside luxury buildings that this MPE floor plan series has now documented in full: Surf Club Four Seasons Residences (9001 and 9111 Collins), Fendi Château Residences (9349 Collins), and Arte Surfside (8955 Collins). Together these three buildings — all completed between 2015 and 2020, all 12 stories by municipal code, all directly on the Atlantic Ocean beachfront, all with international architectural and design pedigrees — define what Surfside has become as a luxury residential neighborhood.

Each of the three represents a different architectural philosophy applied to the same 12-story Surfside constraint:

The Surf Club Four SeasonsMore Info: Richard Meier's pure white Modernist towers flanking a preserved 1937 Art Deco hotel compound on 8 acres with 815 linear feet of beachfront — the largest and most historically layered of the three.

Fendi Château ResidencesMore Info: Arquitectonica's boutique 58-unit tower on 3 acres with 300 feet of beachfront, delivered fully with Fendi Casa kitchens and Ornare bathrooms — the most branded of the three.

Arte SurfsideMore Info: Antonio Citterio and Patricia Viel's 16-unit pyramid-pagoda, the fewest residences of any of the three, the most Italian in its material language, with a permanent Olafur Eliasson lobby installation and three-car garages in every unit — the most architecturally singular of the three.

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