Miami is fashionable, with many projects and contest, with internationally renowned architects. Jacques Herzog & Pierre de Meuron, have made their footprints in Miami. First, of course, was the parking garage that needs no explanation; the 1111 Lincoln Road. Second is the currently under construction Perez Art Museum Miami. And third will be Jade 4 in Sunny Isles Beach.

Swiss architects Herzog & de Meuron announce first residential tower in Miami. The tower is designing as a deformed parallelogram that angles all the oceanfront apartments to the southern sun. Most of the architectural articulation will happen near the bottom and top of the tower, with wide balconies on the middle floors. The facade slowly recedes, much like the entasis of a classical column. The tower appears quite classical in section as well, with proportions reminiscent of an Ancient Greek and Roman architecture. A circular driveway screw-drives into the ground, becoming a ramp for the parking garage, and a two-level lobby flanks three circular grand staircases. A building meant for showing off your avant-garde couture ball gowns.


“The relation to place is integral,” says Christine Binswanger, Senior Partner with Herzog & de Meuron. “We created deep terraces and living rooms that have simultaneous views to the ocean in the east and to the Intracoastal to the west. We designed common areas to be on the ground level, connected with the beach, just as they were originally conceived for the beachfront hotels that have drawn people to Miami since the early 20th Century.”


The building is 649 feet high, with 56 floors, and 224 total units. Units will range from 1 bedroom to 6, and the penthouse is a massive estate way up in the sky which will be built for that special buyer. The downstairs will feature, a lap pool and lagoon pool flank a beach grill and what looks like a grand staircase. Features will be club rooms, lounges, full service Spas and gym and of course a beach club.

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Architects.- Herzog and de Meuron.
Interior design.- Pierre Yves Rochon.
Landscape architect.- Raymond Jungles.
Year built.- 2015.
Height.- 56 story, 650 feet vertical.
Units on Condo.- 224 units.
Bedrooms.- 1-6.
Unit size ground floor area.- 1,400 to 4,600 sq ft
Penthouses size ground floor area.- 6,000 and 10,000 sq ft.

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Herzog & de Meuron Architekten is a Swiss architecture firm, founded and headquartered in Basel, Switzerland in 1978. The careers of founders and senior partners Jacques Herzog (born 1950), and Pierre de Meuron (born 1950), closely paralleled one another, with both attending the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zürich. They are perhaps best known for their conversion of the giant Bankside Power Station in London to the new home of the Tate Museum of Modern Art (2000). Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron have been visiting professors at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design since 1994 (and in 1989) and professors at ETH Zürich since 1999. They are co-founders of the ETH Studio Basel – Contemporary City Institute, which started a research programme on processes of transformation in the urban domain.

Herzog & de Meuron is a partnership led by five Senior Partners – Jacques Herzog, Pierre de Meuron, Christine Binswanger, Ascan Mergenthaler and Stefan Marbach. An international team of 38 Associates and about 362 collaborators.

Herzog & de Meuron received international attention very early in their career with the Blue House in Oberwil, Switzerland (1980); the Stone House in Tavole, Italy (1988); and the Apartment Building along a Party Wall in Basel (1988).  The firm’s breakthrough project was the Ricola Storage Building in Laufen, Switzerland (1987).  Renown in the United States came with Dominus Winery in Yountville, California (1998). The Goetz Collection, a Gallery for a Private Collection of Modern Art in Munich (1992), stands at the beginning of a series of internationally acclaimed museum buildings such as the Küppersmühle Museum for the Grothe Collection in Duisburg, Germany (1999). Their most recognized buildings include Prada Aoyama in Tokyo, Japan (2003); Allianz Arena in Munich, Germany (2005); the new Cottbus Library for the BTU Cottbus, Germany (2005); the National Stadium Beijing, the Main Stadium for the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, China; VitraHaus, a building to present Vitra’s “Home Collection“, Weil am Rhein, Germany (2010); and 1111 Lincoln Road, a multi-storey mixed-use structure for parking, retail, a restaurant and a private residence in Miami Beach, Florida, USA (2010), the Actelion Business Center in Allschwil/Basel, Switzerland (2010). In recent years, Herzog & de Meuron have also completed projects such as the New Hall for Messe Basel Switzerland (2013), the Ricola Kräuterzentrum in Laufen (2014), which is the seventh building in a series of collaborations with Ricola, with whom Herzog & de Meuron began to work in the 1980s; and the Naturbad Riehen (2014), a public natural swimming pool. In April 2014, the practice completed its first project in Brazil: the Arena do Morro in the neighbourhood of Mãe Luiza, Natal, is the pioneering project within the wider urban proposal “A Vision for Mãe Luiza”.

Herzog & de Meuron have completed 6 projects since the beginning of 2015: a new mountain station including a restaurant on top of the Chäserrugg (2262 metres above sea level) in Toggenburg, Switzerland; Helsinki Dreispitz, a residential development and archive in Münchenstein/Basel, Switzerland; Asklepios 8 – an office building on the Novartis Campus in Basel, Switzerland; the Slow Food Pavilion for Expo 2015 in Milan, Italy; the new Bordeaux stadium, a 42’000 seat multifunctional stadium for Bordeaux, France; Miu Miu Aoyama, a 720 m² boutique for the Prada-owned brand located on Miyuki Street, across the road from Prada Aoyama, Tokyo, Japan.

In many projects the architects have worked together with artists, an eminent example of that practice being the collaboration with Rémy Zaugg, Thomas Ruff and with Michael Craig-Martin.

Professionally, the Herzog & de Meuron partnership has grown to become an office with over 120 people worldwide. In addition to their headquarters in Basel, they have offices in London, Munich and San Francisco. Herzog has explained, “We work in teams, but the teams are not permanent. We rearrange them as new projects begin. All of the work results from discussions between Pierre and me, as well as our other partners, Harry Gugger and Christine Binswanger. The work by various teams may involve many different talents to achieve the best results which is a final product called architecture by Herzog & de Meuron.”

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Published on: May 27, 2013
Cite: "JADE SIGNATURE TOWER by HERZOG & DE MEURON" METALOCUS. Accessed
<https://www.metalocus.es/en/news/jade-signature-tower-herzog-de-meuron> ISSN 1139-6415
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