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Jade Signature is a tower built on Sunny Isles Beach. Like the grand Miami hotels we admire, it is a building rooted in its surrounding landscape and urban context. The interior and exterior are tightly integrated: the street connects to the lobby, which overlooks the swimming pool that sits on the beach. The tower stands in deliberate contrast to the typical parking-base walls that usually form a barrier between city and beach. The relationship to nature, environment, and context is central to the project. The overall form of the tower is a parallelogram, quiet and composed, oriented toward the beach where it captures the most sunlight. The western sun becomes part of the extended waterfront landscape. The building sits within a garden where the swimming pool meets the beach. Public spaces including the lobby, restaurant, and spa are arranged along a curved, ribbon-like circulation that moves from inside to outside: the west side serves as the vehicular drop-off, while the east side opens to a beachfront pavilion. The lower three floors curve in a serpentine form that connects the building to the geometry of the surrounding landscape. In this building, detail becomes the architectural signature. The exterior expresses the internal organization of the residential units. Each floor is connected by stone slabs, and windows are recessed to reduce visual impact. Walls running east to west create living spaces with simultaneous views in two directions. The shape of these walls responds to the specific positions between apartments, bedrooms, or deep terraces, and their curved forms are the result of these functional requirements.
TEAM
Landscape Design: Raymond Jungles, Inc; Interior Design: PYR, Pierre-Yves Rochon; Client: Sunny Isles Beach Associates, LLC; Structural Engineer: McNamara/Salvia, Inc; Engineering Consultant: KACO; Design Team: Raymond Jr. Gaëtan (Associate), Alfonso Miguel Caballero, Ryan Cole (Project Manager), Santiago Espitia, Claire Gamet, Gray Garmon, Pauline Gaulard, Billy Guidoni, Luis Guzman Grossberger, Shusuke Inoue, Sara Jiménez Nuñez, Clément Thomas Mathieu, Matthew Oravec, Amanda Sachs- Mangold, Tali Shoavi, Andre Vergueiro