Palm Island Miami

Palm Island: Sculptural Residence 

 

The entrance is a wall of coral stone, rough and geological, rising the full height of the ground floor. It anchors the house. Everything that follows, the white cantilevered volumes, the wood-clad soffits, the glass, derives its scale from this single element. The stone continues indoors, its surface embedded with thin brass inlays that catch the light and give the monolith a quiet vertical rhythm.

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Beyond the entry, the plan opens. The ground floor is fluid and generous: living, dining, kitchen, cinema, guest suite, all connected and all oriented toward the water. The material palette is restrained, light wood, white veined marble, full-height glass, but the proportions are not modest. This is a big house, 15,000 square feet on a hundred-foot waterfront lot, and it does not pretend otherwise.

 

What gives it tension is the pool. Clad in deep green marble, it sits at the center of the outdoor composition like a mineral basin, darker and denser than anything around it. The architecture, white and precise, floats above it. The garden, tropical and loose, presses against it. The pool holds them apart and holds them together.

 

Upstairs, the primary suite is set for privacy and distance. A panoramic bathroom, dual walk-in closets, a private terrace above the bay. At the top, a rooftop lounge with sweeping views of both the Beach and Downtown, a room that belongs more to the sky than to the house.

The six-car garage sits below grade, out of sight, out of mind.