By Matt Gibbs · Aug 31, 2026 Compare 20 GTA VI landmarks with their real Miami counterparts, including Kaseya Center, Miami Tower, E11EVEN and LoanDepot Park.

Zoom image: Vice City landmarks and their real-world Miami counterparts on the GTA VI map. In this article

Downtown skyline and waterfront Arts, nightlife and Stockyard Rockridge and neighborhood businesses Expand Hide TOC ⌄ Galina Ballet Opera House and Adrienne Arsht Center Sahara Arena and Kaseya Center Megamundo and One Biscayne Tower Heath Tower and Miami Tower Sahara HQ and Brickell Arch The Sumerian and Marriott Miami Biscayne Bay Arcadia Towers and Vizcayne NINE1NINE and E11EVEN Vice City Concert Hall and Knight Concert Hall Archez and 2451 NW 5th Avenue Bohemia and 2562 NW 2nd Avenue Fleeca Field and LoanDepot Park Rockridge Community Research Center and Miami Police Department Lou's and Palace Cafe & Dairy Simon's Tires and George's Tires and Repair Vice City Pawn and Americash Pawn Shop Airport and transport Vice City Arts Center Metro Station and Adrienne Arsht Metromover Station VCIA Metro Station and Miami International Airport Station VCIA Control Tower and Miami's air traffic control tower Autograph Flight Support and Signature Flight Support Explore the full GTA VI map Grand Theft Auto VI does not just borrow Miami's palm trees and neon glow. Vice City mirrors real arenas, towers, nightclubs, transit stops and neighborhood businesses across the city. Some of the closest matches preserve the shape of an entire building.

Others reproduce a facade, roofline or street corner closely enough to recognize it at a glance.

Our GTA VI map pairs the 20 locations below with their Miami counterparts. This list focuses on named locations with photographs of both places and clear architectural similarities.

Faceted roofs and a broad performing-arts complex

Waterfront arena massing and sloped facade

Tiered tower with illuminated horizontal bands

Paired residential towers with matching proportions

Nightclub facade, rooftop sign and entrance layout

Angular concert-hall roof and glass-fronted entrance

Red corner storefront and wraparound mural

Rounded civic building and horizontal window band

Yellow-and-blue facade with an exterior staircase

Elevated rails and compact station entrance

Blue automated trains and enclosed platform

Tall concrete shaft and compact control cab

Twenty GTA VI locations paired with the real Miami places they most closely resemble.

The Galina Ballet Opera House matches the Adrienne Arsht Center's broad footprint, angular roofs and elevated central structure. The illuminated Vice City version keeps the same unmistakable silhouette while adding brighter signage and a busier plaza.

Zoom image: The Galina Ballet Opera House in Vice City, with its angular roof and brightly lit plaza. The Galina Ballet Opera House in Vice City, with its angular roof and brightly lit plaza. Zoom image: Miami's Adrienne Arsht Center, showing the same low, faceted roofline.

Miami's Adrienne Arsht Center, showing the same low, faceted roofline. Sahara Arena and Kaseya Center Sahara Arena follows the shape and waterfront setting of Kaseya Center. Both buildings use a huge curved shell, a sloping front facade and a wide entrance facing the surrounding streets and bay.

Zoom image: Sahara Arena fills a waterfront block in Downtown Vice City. Sahara Arena fills a waterfront block in Downtown Vice City. Zoom image: Kaseya Center beside Biscayne Bay, with its curved shell and broad frontage.

Kaseya Center beside Biscayne Bay, with its curved shell and broad frontage. Megamundo and One Biscayne Tower Megamundo is easy to pick out from One Biscayne Tower's distinctive base. The Vice City tower repeats the white supports that flare outward beneath the darker office floors above.

Zoom image: Megamundo's lower floors are framed by bright, flared supports. Megamundo's lower floors are framed by bright, flared supports. Zoom image: One Biscayne Tower uses the same branching white structure around its lower floors.

One Biscayne Tower uses the same branching white structure around its lower floors. Heath Tower and Miami Tower Heath Tower mirrors Miami Tower's stacked, rounded profile and horizontal lighting bands. At night, the colored illumination makes the connection especially clear in Vice City's skyline.

Zoom image: Heath Tower glows above Downtown Vice City in layered bands of color. Heath Tower glows above Downtown Vice City in layered bands of color. Zoom image: Miami Tower's rounded tiers give the real building its recognizable profile.

Miami Tower's rounded tiers give the real building its recognizable profile. Sahara HQ and Brickell Arch Sahara HQ resembles Brickell Arch through its broad blue-glass face, pale structural frame and recessed upper section. The game building is visible behind Jason with the same imposing vertical proportions.

Zoom image: Sahara HQ rises behind Jason with a wide blue-glass facade. Sahara HQ rises behind Jason with a wide blue-glass facade. Zoom image: Brickell Arch combines a blue-glass face with a pale structural frame.

Brickell Arch combines a blue-glass face with a pale structural frame. The Sumerian and Marriott Miami Biscayne Bay The Sumerian repeats the Marriott Miami Biscayne Bay's dense balcony grid. The narrow vertical divisions and rows of projecting white balconies create almost the same texture from a distance.

Zoom image: The Sumerian's facade is covered by narrow rows of projecting balconies. The Sumerian's facade is covered by narrow rows of projecting balconies. Zoom image: The Marriott Miami Biscayne Bay has a closely matching balcony pattern.

The Marriott Miami Biscayne Bay has a closely matching balcony pattern. Arcadia Towers and Vizcayne Arcadia Towers repeats the paired form of the Vizcayne condominium complex. Its north and south towers retain the slim profiles, repeating balconies and shared position in the Downtown skyline.

Zoom image: Arcadia Towers' south building in the Downtown Vice City skyline. Arcadia Towers' south building in the Downtown Vice City skyline. Zoom image: Vizcayne South has the same slim residential profile.

Vizcayne South has the same slim residential profile. Zoom image: The north Arcadia tower uses the same repeating balcony pattern. The north Arcadia tower uses the same repeating balcony pattern.

Zoom image: Vizcayne North completes the real-world twin-tower comparison. Vizcayne North completes the real-world twin-tower comparison. Arts, nightlife and Stockyard NINE1NINE and E11EVEN NINE1NINE closely resembles E11EVEN, the Downtown Miami nightclub.

Its large rooftop wordmark, pale block-like exterior and entrance arrangement survive almost intact beneath Vice City's purple lighting.

Zoom image: NINE1NINE uses a rooftop sign above a pale, block-like nightclub facade. NINE1NINE uses a rooftop sign above a pale, block-like nightclub facade. Zoom image: E11EVEN's rooftop lettering and exterior layout make the match immediately recognizable.

E11EVEN's rooftop lettering and exterior layout make the match immediately recognizable. Vice City Concert Hall and Knight Concert Hall The concert hall beside the Galina complex follows the angular roof and glass-fronted entrance of Miami's Knight Concert Hall. The nighttime Vice City view emphasizes the same steep planes and long illuminated lobby.

Zoom image: Vice City's concert hall uses steep roof planes above a long illuminated entrance. Vice City's concert hall uses steep roof planes above a long illuminated entrance. Zoom image: Knight Concert Hall has the same angular roof and glazed frontage.

Knight Concert Hall has the same angular roof and glazed frontage. Archez and 2451 NW 5th Avenue Archez takes the shape of the low corner building at 2451 NW 5th Avenue. Both versions wrap a red-and-white mural around the facade and pl