A collection of seven towers, five of which are currently under construction in Phase I, and an elevated shopping mall with road-spanning skyways, Brickell City Centre is a goliath of a megaproject.

The sleepy design/furniture/architecture-oriented Design District is mid-construction for its conversion to a high end shopping district. Haute retail brands like Hermès, Louis Vuitton, and Dior have already opened up shop while construction workers practically build a mall around them.

Just like he did back home, Argentine developer Alan Faena purchased practically an entire neighborhood (perhaps comparable in size to the Design District, but probably a little smaller) and is turning it into another neighborhood. He's restoring the historic Versailles and Saxony hotels, constructing a new residential tower, and adapting or adding to another historic building which he plans to use as an art center and function space.

With 790 units coming to two bayfront towers, and multiple towers planned behind them including one with interiors by Karim Rashid (his follow up act to mybrickell as it were), the Related Group has big, big plans for Paraiso Bay in Edgewater. And they have the land to do it on, having purchased everything to Biscayne Boulevard.

Miami World Center was a megaproject at the scale of Brickell City Centre that stalled during the Great Recession, but news reports of major land purchases, a large convention hotel, and confirmed department store tenants all point to the project being very much alive again.

Replacing an absolutely anonymous concrete box of a building and the sprawling parking deck out back, One Brickell is the multi-towered megaproject the Related Group is building to outdo itself, specifically to outdo its pre-recession Icon Brickell project, directly across the street. No renderings, and few design details have been yet released.

The tower that recently lost out on its would-be status as Miami's tallest to one of Brickell City Centre's flock of sky rises, Panorama Tower will still not be diminutive in any way, rising a more than respectable 830 feet.

Genting, the casino conglomerate, has already thrown plenty of money down this bottomless pit, so they want the thing built, but without legalized resort-style gambling, that is so not happening. Until then, the old Miami Herald building will be deteriorating away in a sea of asphalt, in the middle of Miami.

This big-ass tunnel will connect PortMiami directly with the interstate highway system, by way of going underneath Miami's "Cruise Ship Row" i.e. Government Cut. It will be quite the dramatic entrance, and it opens in May.

Picture this: elevated train tracks approach an elevated station, with streets open to traffic underneath, a grand train hall, and towers above. Yep, it's a victorian wet dream, and everyone in Miami is invited to Miami's over-the-top rail station of the future.

Two new world-class museums, of art and science, bookending an outdoor plaza with access to public transportation, and all of this will be in the middle of a verdant green waterfront park.

Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport needed a bigger runway, but whoops US-1 is in the way. What to do? Why, build over and above it, why not? And that's what they're doing.

Despite the Related Group itself backing out the project, the original planners of the vastly delayed Island Gardens project on Watson Island, consisting of two towers, a mall, and a megayacht marina, insist they are going forward with it. Where they have all of a sudden gotten the money which they have had such a hard time coming up with in the past is anyone's guess, but the Yacht & Brokerage show has already announced an expansion there in 2015, and not a shovel has yet touched the ground. (Update = the Y&B show is saying 2016. Still, very tight)