Behar Font & Partners

Behar Font & Partners is a Coral Gables, Florida architecture firm known for high-rise residential, hospitality, and mixed-use design across South Florida. The studio is the architect of Okan Tower, the 902-foot supertall rising in downtown Miami with a Hilton hotel, condo-hotel units, sky residences, and office space. Its portfolio leans toward the tall, dense, mixed-use projects that have reshaped the Miami skyline, and it handles design through construction administration on complex urban towers.

Behar Font & Partners has practised architecture from Coral Gables, Florida since 1992, and the shape of the firm comes through in the kinds of buildings it designs. Its work centres on high-rise residential, hospitality and mixed-use projects, three related disciplines that share a common demand, the need to stack a lot of program into a tall, dense building and still make it work at street level.
High-rise residential is exacting work. It asks a designer to resolve hundreds of homes, their structure, their services and their views into a single tower, while hospitality design brings its own set of requirements around guest experience and operations. Mixed-use pulls those threads together, layering residences, hotel space and other uses into one building, the type of project that rewards a studio comfortable moving between programs rather than specialising in only one.
A South Florida practice
The firm’s Florida base is more than an address. Designing tall, dense buildings for a subtropical, coastal setting carries particular considerations, and a studio rooted in the region works with those conditions as a matter of course. More than three decades in from its 1992 founding, Behar Font & Partners continues to concentrate on the high-rise and mixed-use work that has defined its practice, keeping its focus narrow rather than spreading across every building type. That consistency of focus is itself a kind of expertise: a practice that returns to the same demanding project types year after year builds a depth in them that a more generalist studio does not.
Hospitality design in particular pulls the practice toward the demands of hotels and resorts, where the building has to serve guests and operators at once. That it sits alongside high-rise residential and mixed-use in the same portfolio speaks to a studio used to buildings that combine uses, exactly the kind of dense, layered project that a growing South Florida skyline keeps calling for.