
The tallest completed structure is Panorama Tower in Brickell. Only 10 buildings out of 80 on the list were built before 2000, and only 18 were built before 2005. This second boom has more proposed towers for the region than were built in the first boom from 2003 to 2010.

This was followed by a second boom that is currently active as of January 2019. By 2011 the market began to return, with new office and condominium projects such as Brickell House announced for construction beginning in 2012. The boom, however, ended abruptly around 2008 when the real estate market crashed and the late-2000s recession began. As a result of the construction boom, only two of the city's 25 tallest buildings were completed before the year 2000, and the city has one of largest skylines in the United States, generally ranking only behind New York City and Chicago. In what was dubbed a " Manhattanization wave", there were nearly 60 structures proposed, approved or under construction in the city that were planned to rise over 492 feet (150 m) in height.

From the mid-1990s through the late 2000s, Miami went through the largest building boom in the city's history.

Miami's history of high-rises began with the 1912 completion of the six–story Burdine's Department Store, although the Freedom Tower, built in 1925, is Miami's best-known early skyscraper and remains an icon of the city.
