House by Shigeru Ban

237 NE 54th St, Miami, FL 33137

House by Shigeru Ban is a 12-story residential development slated for 237 NE 54th Street in Miami's Upper Buena Vista, designed by the Pritzker-winning architect Shigeru Ban and developed by Yakol Capital. The architecture is the headline and it earns the attention. Ban's design uses a stacked-box facade that breaks up the massing of the building, so that individual homes read as distinct volumes rather than repetitions in a single slab, and the effect is a tower that looks assembled rather than extruded, with each residence gaining a sense of identity and a more direct relationship to the open air. The project spans twelve stories and holds roughly 320 to 332 condominiums in one- to four-bedroom layouts, together with approximately 50,000 square feet of retail and amenity space on a 2.86-acre site. Residences are planned with large terraces and outdoor-oriented layouts, an approach that treats the terrace as a room in its own right and follows naturally from the stacked-box form, where setbacks create outdoor space rather than consuming it. Amenities are planned to include a rooftop pool deck, indoor and outdoor wellness and fitness areas, a landscaped courtyard and communal green spaces, and paddle-tennis courts, with ground-floor retail activating the street. The through-line is a biophilic vision that pairs urban convenience with daily contact with planting, light and air, a program consistent with an architect whose practice has long treated natural materials and open space as structural concerns rather than finishes. Upper Buena Vista supplies a setting of low-rise character, mature canopy and independent retail, and the Design District, Wynwood and the bay sit within easy reach. The project is coming soon. The scale of the retail and amenity program suggests the ground plane will function as a public room for the neighborhood rather than a private lobby.