The facade at dusk: white sculpted forms and fine filigree wirework standing in front of a concrete and glass frame, warm light in every window.

Four residences · NE 26th Avenue · Fort Lauderdale

NE 26th
Avenue

Artisan Luxe Builders from $2,900,000

From $2,900,000

Drawn by
gravity.

Gaudi never drew an arch. He hung weighted chains from the ceiling of his workshop, let them find their own shape, photographed them, and turned the photograph upside down. A chain under its own weight makes a curve called a catenary. Inverted, it carries load in pure compression — the strongest arch there is, and the only one nature would have arrived at on its own.

He spent ten years on a model of hanging strings and small canvas bags of birdshot. It is still the reason his buildings look grown rather than assembled.

Four residences on NE 26th Avenue answer to that idea: a white sculpted exoskeleton and drawn filigree, standing in front of a frame of concrete and glass. In a city that builds glass boxes because glass boxes are quick, this took the long way on purpose.

The chain, hanging Keep scrolling to turn it over

Residences: Four
Bedrooms: Four or five
Baths: Five or seven
From: $2.9M

The building, ground to roof

The facade

01

The exoskeleton is what you see

Not a balcony rail and not a screen. The white forms stand in front of the glass across the whole elevation, so every residence gets its own face on the street rather than a share of one.
02

The filigree is drawn, not cast

Fine wirework spans between the arches, lit from within at night. No two bays repeat, so the pattern never resolves into a module.
03

Warm stone, against sculpted white

Veined cladding runs behind the white forms and between them. Two different kinds of making, side by side, neither pretending to be the other.

Drag to change the hour

Dusk, and then night.

The same facade after dark, lit from within.

02 — Residences

Four, and then never again.

Each residence occupies a full bay of the facade, ground to roof. Four or five bedrooms, a private elevator, four cars, and a pool in its own east-facing garden.

The four residences seen head-on at dusk, each occupying one bay of the facade.

South end bay, and the smallest of the four. Its living level sits at grade, and in place of a full third floor it carries a terrace running the full depth of the level along its south flank.

Beds
4 + office

Baths
4 + powder

Cars
4

Pool
Yes

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Interior bay, with the living level raised to the second floor and the longest uninterrupted run of glass to the rear garden.

Beds
5 + family

Baths
7

Cars
4

Pool
Yes

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Interior bay. A mirror of 822, with the stair and the elevator handed to the opposite side.

Beds
5 + family

Baths
7

Cars
4

Pool
Yes

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North end bay, and the largest of the four. It backs onto the side setback, so the principal bedroom looks out with no neighbour opposite.

Beds
5 + family

Baths
7

Cars
4

Pool
Yes

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All four plans are drawn to scale below

03 — Plans

Drawn, and then built.

Every room, every level, at scale. Taken from the permit set approved by the City of Fort Lauderdale in June 2025 — not from a marketing redraw.

820 NE 26th Avenue

Four bedrooms, four baths and a powder room

The south corner

In place of a full third floor, a terrace running the full depth of the level along its south flank — the only outdoor room of its size on the site.

Level one: 749
Level two: 956
Level three: 585
Total, air conditioned: 2,290
Garage: 245

Level one of 820 NE 26th Avenue, drawn to scale: entry, garage and the living floor. — Level one At grade Entry, garage and the living floor

Level two of 820 NE 26th Avenue, drawn to scale: three bedrooms, three baths. — Level two Ten feet Three bedrooms, three baths

Level three of 820 NE 26th Avenue, drawn to scale: the terrace floor. — Level three Twenty-one feet The terrace floor

Download the 820 plan sheet PDF · 18 × 24 in

Areas are air‑conditioned and exclude garage, balconies and terrace. Furniture is shown for scale only. North is up; NE 26th Avenue runs along the left edge of every plan.

Four doors
on a street of forty.

04 — Inside

The structure is the view.

Every principal room looks out through the exoskeleton. The arch is not something you see from the street. It is what frames the window you wake up to.

Architectural rendering of the arrival level: a two-tier vehicle lift with a car raised above a second, a glass pneumatic elevator, and the stair beyond. — The arrival levelVehicle lift, glass elevator, stair

Architectural rendering of the kitchen: pale stone counters, oak cabinetry, and a lounge visible past the island. — The kitchenStone, oak, and the lounge beyond

Architectural rendering of the principal bath: a single arch, stone floor and walls, and a freestanding tub. — Principal bathOne arch, one stone

Architectural rendering of the principal bedroom: the glazed wall filled by the white forms of the facade, with the dressing area beyond. — Principal bedroomThe facade, from the inside

Architectural rendering of the great room: double height, glazed wall to wall, with the living and dining areas open to each other. — The great roomDouble height, glazed wall to wall

Architectural rendering of the dining area: a table set beneath the stair, with the glass elevator rising beside it. — The dining roomUnder the stair, beside the elevator

Architectural rendering, detail: the white sculpted form meeting the stone cladding, with the lit filigree spanning behind it. — DetailWhere the filigree meets the form

Imagery on this page is the builder’s own architectural rendering. The generated interior studies that previously appeared here have been removed rather than relabelled. Photography replaces these images on completion. Finishes marked to be selected by owner in the permit drawings are not depicted.

05 — Lineage

A hundred and forty years of the same idea.

Casa Batlló

Barcelona · 1904–06

Columns shaped like long bones; a facade with no vertical line in it. The move borrowed here is the one at street level — structure that visibly branches before it reaches the ground.
Casa Milà

Barcelona · 1906–12

Wrought iron drawn like seaweed against cut stone. The filigree on NE 26th Avenue does the same job: a fine, irregular, hand-made layer held against a heavy one.
Sagrada Família

Barcelona · 1882–

The forest of branching columns, and the hanging-chain model that generated them. Every arch on NE 26th Avenue is solved the same way.