Herzog & de Meuron to design residential tower in Miami
News: developers have released images of a 57-storey residential tower designed by Herzog & de Meuron for Miami.
![Dezeen_Jade-Signature-by-Herzog-and-de-Meuron-2 Dezeen_Jade-Signature-by-Herzog-and-de-Meuron-2](https://static.dezeen.com/uploads/2013/06/Dezeen_Jade-Signature-by-Herzog-and-de-Meuron-2.jpg)
The 198-metre Jade Signature tower by Herzog & de Meuron on an estate in Miami's Sunny Isles district will accommodate 192 residences, ranging from one-bedroom apartments to a 975-square-metre penthouse.
![Dezeen_Jade-Signature-by-Herzog-and-de-Meuron-3 Dezeen_Jade-Signature-by-Herzog-and-de-Meuron-3](https://static.dezeen.com/uploads/2013/06/Dezeen_Jade-Signature-by-Herzog-and-de-Meuron-3.jpg)
The building's parallelogram-shaped plan will help to angle the apartments towards the southern sun and floor-to-ceiling windows will provide views of the ocean. Hourglass-shaped columns will feature at the extremities of the balconies encircling the tower.
![Dezeen_Jade-Signature-by-Herzog-and-de-Meuron-5 Dezeen_Jade-Signature-by-Herzog-and-de-Meuron-5](https://static.dezeen.com/uploads/2013/06/Dezeen_Jade-Signature-by-Herzog-and-de-Meuron-5.jpg)
Interiors will be designed by Pierre Yves Rochon's Parisian firm PYR and Miami landscape architect Raymond Jungles will create a tropical garden surrounding the building.
![Dezeen_Jade-Signature-by-Herzog-and-de-Meuron-4 Dezeen_Jade-Signature-by-Herzog-and-de-Meuron-4](https://static.dezeen.com/uploads/2013/06/Dezeen_Jade-Signature-by-Herzog-and-de-Meuron-4.jpg)
Herzog & de Meuron's first building in Miami was an angular concrete and glass car park with a retail area at its base.
The firm recently completed an extension to an exhibition centre in Basel and has been granted planning permission for a new building at Oxford University.
Zaha Hadid Architects is also working on a residential skyscraper in Miami, while a competition to redevelop the site of the Miami Beach Convention Center has received entries from Rem Koolhaas's OMA and Danish firm BIG – see all projects in Miami.