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Palazzo Architecture
1 Morton Square

The Design Team of Palazzo

The design origin of extraordinary places.

Palazzo Architecture conceives luxury residential and commercial work in South Florida, then carries that vision into the full Palazzo ecosystem — engineering, visualization, trades, construction, and completion.

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The Studio

Meet the architects.

Christopher Grant Kirwan

Principal Architect

Christopher Grant Kirwan

Architect, designer, and founder of Kirwan Design — a multidisciplinary practice spanning residences, interiors, hospitality, mixed-use development, and master planning.

Architecture should join lifestyle, place, and identity with the value of how a project is developed.

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Thomas McKay

Principal Architect

Thomas McKay

Architect, RA, AIA, and founding principal of McKay Architecture and Design — more than 30 years of commercial, residential, and hospitality work in the United States and abroad.

Innovative design joined to historic preservation, carried from concept through permitting, financing, and construction.

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Selected Work

Projects that begin as architecture and become places.

Estates, waterfront houses, renovations, and commercial work — designed by Palazzo’s architects and coordinated with the firm’s construction and engineering companies.

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Practice

Residential and commercial architecture.

Residential

Houses with the discipline of a complete estate.

Custom estates, waterfront residences, contemporary and Mediterranean houses, renovations, additions, multi-generational compounds, and private amenity structures.

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Commercial

Hospitality, retail, and private facilities.

Showrooms, offices, restaurants, clubs, mixed-use, and developer projects — designed with the same material and spatial standard as Palazzo’s residential work.

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The Palazzo Advantage

Drawings are not the end of the work.

Architecture at Palazzo is the first movement in a coordinated project: engineering, visualization, cost, procurement, trades, construction, and delivery.

  1. 01

    Property

  2. 02

    Architecture

  3. 03

    Visualization

  4. 04

    Engineering

  5. 05

    Selections

  6. 06

    Construction

  7. 07

    Completion

The Palazzo ecosystem

Process

A clear sequence, without the theatre of a thirty-page methodology.

Discovery through design, visualization, engineering, permitting, construction, and completion — collaborative work in a disciplined order.

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Have a property, idea, or project in mind?

Begin with architecture. Palazzo will carry the work through visualization, engineering, and construction when the project requires it.

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