The Hotel at The Moore

The Hotel at The Moore opened on October 14, 2024, as a 13-suite property occupying the fourth floor of the Moore Building, the 1921 Neoclassical landmark that anchors Miami's Design District. Developed and operated by WoodHouse, it is the group's first hotel and the final piece of a renovation that also placed a private members' club, a restaurant and a gallery inside the same building. The suites, each different, sit two floors above the club and three above Zaha Hadid's Elastika installation, which still spans the building's central atrium.

The place

The Moore Building stands at 4040 NE 2nd Avenue, at the center of the Design District, the few blocks of Miami that trade almost exclusively in design showrooms, galleries and flagship stores rather than nightlife or beach traffic. The 90,000-square-foot building dates to 1921, when it opened as a furniture showroom and warehouse for Moore and Sons during Miami's land-boom years, arranged around a four-story central atrium that still defines the layout. It has been a design-trade landmark since, and more recently an events venue known for Zaha Hadid's Elastika, a site-specific sculptural installation added for Art Basel Miami Beach in 2005 and left in place. The hotel is a short walk from the district's galleries and restaurants and a few minutes' drive from Wynwood and South Beach.

The concept

This is WoodHouse's first hotel. The Dallas-based developer and operator, founded by Brady Wood, had until now built its reputation on private members' clubs, restaurants and entertainment venues, and The Moore is where that model gets a hotel component bolted on: 13 suites reachable only by guests and club members, on a floor most Design District visitors never see. Studio Collective, the Los Angeles design firm, led the interiors in collaboration with iCrave, working room by room rather than to a single template, with white oak entry parlors, walnut beds, porcelain-slab bathrooms and area rugs referencing Florida's coastline. Furniture and decorative pieces came from Mous and Sossego, and no two suites are alike. Suite sizes are reported between roughly 600 and 1,100 square feet depending on the source, spanning studios up to the two largest keys, the Green Room Collector's Suite and the La Familia Executive Suite, both over 1,000 square feet. The hotel's draw is less the room count than what a stay unlocks: unrestricted access to The Club, a roughly 20,000-square-foot private members' floor with a library, billiards, multiple private dining rooms, karaoke and games rooms, and The Rabbit Hole, a late-night speakeasy, plus a co-working floor called The Workplace. That access is normally sold as a membership; for hotel guests it comes with the room. The target guest is someone drawn to the Design District's design-world clientele and Art Basel calendar rather than a resort stay — a small, members'-club-adjacent alternative to Miami's larger beachfront luxury hotels.

Dining & wellness

Elastika, the building's ground-floor restaurant, opened in May 2024 ahead of the hotel and takes its name from the Zaha Hadid installation suspended above the dining room; it is an all-day concept led by Michelin-starred executive chef Joe Anthony, with a sidewalk terrace onto the Design District streets. Hotel guests also get unrestricted access to The Club's restaurant and dining rooms one floor up, along with its bars, library and lounges, and to The Rabbit Hole speakeasy for late-night cocktails. There is no spa; wellness is handled through access to Anatomy Fitness nearby rather than an in-house facility, and 24-hour in-room dining and butler service are included.