A legend comes home to its island.

The Fan

Two Houses, One Emblem

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Hong Kong, 1963. Bangkok, 1974.

Two legends stand behind the name: The Mandarin, of Hong Kong, and The Oriental, of Bangkok. In 1985 they were joined under a single emblem, a fan of eleven blades, chosen as a sign of hospitality and of a double Asian heritage.

The group does not lend that name. It owns and operates what bears it, and it states its purpose plainly: to completely delight and satisfy our guests. On Brickell Key that promise is kept for a household instead of a guest list, beside the hotel that will be the flagship of Mandarin Oriental in North America.

In 2025 the group refined its identity and drew the fan anew. It is that emblem, in gold, that waits on the travertine wall at the entrance of One Island Drive.

Ever yours, The House on Brickell Key

The Island’s Maker

Four Decades, One Final Parcel

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Swire Properties has been in Miami since 1976 and has given more than four decades to the making of Brickell Key; Brickell City Centre is its work as well. The company speaks of placemaking, and of keeping a place once it is made. One Island Drive is the last parcel of the island left to build.

For the architecture Swire turned to Kohn Pedersen Fox, the studio of One Vanderbilt and of Mandarin Oriental Wangfujing, with work in more than forty countries. Two towers rise above a resort podium: the South Tower, of sixty-six stories, and the North Tower, of thirty-three, which holds the new hotel. The official description is a defining landmark on the Miami skyline.

Composed by Masters

Two Towers, Two Hands

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The interiors of the South Tower are the American debut of Tristan Auer, who calls himself an interior and emotion architect and whose rooms include the Hôtel de Crillon and the Carlton Cannes. The North Tower belongs to Laura Gonzalez, of the AD100, author of the Cartier Mansion in New York, whose manner has been called classical but romantic.

Around them, the gardens are by Shma, the landscape studio from Bangkok, and the light is by Speirs Major, who lit The Peninsula London. Harrods Interior Design completes the company with The Knightsbridge Penthouse. Different hands, one house: composed, serene and made to last.