UNFRAMED, Autograph Collection

UNFRAMED, Autograph Collection opened on Washington Avenue at 17th Street in Miami Beach in April 2026. It filled a building that had sat mid-construction under earlier hotel brand plans for years. The 149-room property is a Marriott Autograph Collection hotel. It now anchors a stretch of the city’s cultural district. Soundscape Park, The Fillmore Miami Beach and the Miami Beach Convention Center all sit a short walk away.

A stalled Washington Avenue project finally reopens as UNFRAMED

The site once carried a different hotel brand name during a long construction delay. The building sat unfinished for years before ownership relaunched it under the Autograph Collection flag. Local coverage of the reopening called it a design hotel. The hotel had “finally crashed the party” on Washington Avenue after the extended wait. The property’s own opening announcement frames it as the first premium lifestyle hotel on that stretch of Washington Avenue in roughly a decade. UNFRAMED quietly opened its doors to guests in April 2026, as covered in the hotel’s opening-week coverage. A fuller rollout of its rooftop restaurant followed the next month.

Rudy Ricciotti’s rippling facade and Gulla Jonsdottir’s interiors

French architect Rudy Ricciotti designed UNFRAMED’s exterior. It’s a curving, undulating white structure that stands out from the flatter Art Deco and MiMo blocks nearby on Washington Avenue. Icelandic designer Gulla Jonsdottir handled the interiors. She worked in curved plaster ceilings, stone and brushed metal finishes. Sculptural lighting carries from the reception area into the lobby lounge. The hotel’s own property overview describes the look as blending French Riviera sensibility with a Miami setting. The finished lobby now includes low curved seating, potted greenery and a ring-shaped chandelier fixture above the reception desk.

149 rooms, from corner kings to garden-terrace suites

UNFRAMED, Autograph Collection has 149 guest rooms and suites, most with a private balcony or an outdoor terrace. That’s according to the hotel’s opening press release. The room mix includes king rooms and double-queen rooms. A corner king layout adds a terracotta-toned upholstered headboard, a marble-topped desk and floor-to-ceiling curtains framing the balcony doors. A single presidential suite tops the layout at more than 700 square feet. Trade coverage from Hotel Management confirms the same 149-room count. It also notes the property’s general manager, Alexina Beauperthuy, oversees day-to-day operations under Marriott’s Autograph Collection banner.

The rooftop pool deck and fourth-floor atrium

UNFRAMED, Autograph Collection has a rooftop pool with panoramic views of the Miami Beach skyline and the Atlantic Ocean. The pool deck sits above a fourth-floor open-air atrium courtyard. It’s a landscaped, plant-filled space that separates the lower guest-room floors from the rooftop level. That layered design is a direct product of the site’s unusual footprint. The building had already been substantially framed under an earlier brand’s plans before the relaunch. The design team built the atrium into the existing structure, rather than reworking the whole floor plate. The rooftop level is the hotel’s main outdoor gathering space for overnight guests. It’s the same rooftop referenced throughout the hotel’s own marketing and in independent opening coverage.

Vilebrequin La Plage, the rooftop restaurant and bar

The hotel’s rooftop restaurant and bar, Vilebrequin La Plage, is a partnership with the French resortwear brand Vilebrequin. It represents the brand’s first restaurant concept in North America. It sits on the same rooftop level as the pool deck. The menu leans Cote d’Azur-inspired, with ocean views toward South Beach. The restaurant opened roughly a month after the rest of the hotel, in May 2026. It rounded out UNFRAMED’s rooftop program alongside the pool and event lawn. Guests staying at the hotel can walk up to the rooftop level directly from the fourth-floor atrium, without leaving the building.

Check-in, valet parking and the pet policy

Check-in at UNFRAMED, Autograph Collection begins at 4:00 PM and check-out is at 11:00 AM. Only valet parking is available on-site, priced at $55 per day. UNFRAMED, Autograph Collection allows up to two pets per room, each up to 35 pounds, for a non-refundable fee of $150 per stay. None of the hotel’s published booking materials list a separate nightly resort fee. Some larger Miami Beach resorts do. The only itemized daily charge disclosed on the hotel’s booking pages is the valet fee. Travelers who plan to drive down from other parts of South Florida should budget for that valet charge. The hotel does not list an alternative on-site parking option.

Private events and meeting space for up to 100 guests

UNFRAMED, Autograph Collection offers indoor and outdoor space for private events, with capacity up to 100 guests. That space splits between a first-floor room near the lobby and the fourth-floor atrium courtyard. That combination gives event planners a covered indoor option and an open-air garden option within the same building. That’s unusual for a mid-sized Washington Avenue property of this room count, as Hotel Management’s coverage of the opening notes. The event spaces opened alongside the rest of the hotel in April 2026. Planners arrange them directly through the property, rather than through a separate events venue.

Getting to Soundscape Park, The Fillmore and the Convention Center

UNFRAMED sits at the corner of Washington Avenue and 17th Street. It’s close enough to walk to Soundscape Park, The Fillmore Miami Beach at the Jackie Gleason Theater, and the Miami Beach Convention Center. All sit a few minutes away. That location puts it within easy reach of Lincoln Road’s shopping and restaurant strip to the north, and Ocean Drive’s Art Deco core to the south. It doesn’t sit directly on either of those busier corridors.

Travelers comparing this stretch of Miami Beach against other neighborhoods can check Miami Beach Drive’s South Beach hotel guide. It shows how a cultural-district stay like this one differs from an Ocean Drive or Mid-Beach base. Guests who want to compare UNFRAMED’s rooftop pool against other Miami Beach pool decks can turn to Miami Beach Drive’s roundup of the city’s best pools. Anyone weighing rooftop dinner and drink options nearby can browse Miami Beach Drive’s guide to Miami Beach’s rooftop bars before Vilebrequin La Plage settles into its own routine.