Eighty Seven Park: Renzo Piano's Beachfront Tower

Renzo Piano's only home on American sand

Eighty Seven Park is the rarest kind of Miami building: the only residential tower in the United States designed by Renzo Piano, the Pritzker Prize-winning architect behind the Centre Pompidou and The Shard. Completed in 2019 at 8701 Collins Avenue, where Miami Beach's North Beach meets Surfside, it rises 18 stories with just 70 residences, a deliberately low-density count for a building of its stature. Piano's involvement is not a marketing footnote; it shaped everything from the curved glass to the landscaping to the way light moves through the units. For buyers who care about architecture as much as address, that provenance is the whole point.

A tower wrapped in its own park

The building's defining move is the 35-acre park that wraps and fronts it. Rather than maximize the footprint, the design set the tower back and surrounded it with a lush green space of native and subtropical planting, so residents look out over a canopy of trees to the Atlantic rather than straight down onto pavement. The park is the reason the building feels less like a Collins Avenue high-rise and more like a residence set in a garden on the sand. It also gives Eighty Seven Park a rarity in dense Miami Beach: real distance from its neighbors and an outlook that will not be built out.

The curved-glass 'living rooms' that define the facade

Look at the tower and the first thing you notice is that nothing is flat. Piano's design stacks rounded, curved-glass balconies that the building calls living rooms, each one bowing gently outward to pull the ocean and the park into the interior. The curves are not just sculptural; they extend the usable living space into the open air and give nearly every residence a wide, framed view. Floor-to-ceiling glass, generous ceiling heights and an interior palette by the Paris design house RDAI carry the same restraint through the inside. The result is a facade that reads as soft and organic in a skyline full of hard rectangles.

Residences, amenities and the wellness idea

With just 70 residences across 18 stories, Eighty Seven Park is intimate by Miami-Beach-tower standards, and its layouts run from two to five bedrooms, per our building data. The amenity program leans into a biophilic, wellness-first idea rather than a checklist of nightclubs: a private beach and beach service, pools, a spa and fitness facilities, and the surrounding park itself as an amenity you can walk into. Terra and Bizzi & Partners developed the building, and the whole proposition is calm, health and nature at the northern, quieter end of Miami Beach rather than the party-forward energy further south.

What it costs to own here

Eighty Seven Park sits firmly at the top of the market. Our directory's listed range for residences here runs from roughly $3 million to $35 million, with an average around $1,900 per square foot, figures that reflect its architecture, scarcity and beachfront position. Monthly HOA dues run near $1.90 per square foot in our data, funding the staff, private beach, wellness amenities and park upkeep that define the building. Treat all of these as our directory's estimates rather than live quotes; for what is actually available and at what price today, our building profile and the live report at /market-stats are the places to check current numbers.

The North Beach location, between city and Surfside

Address matters here as much as architecture. Eighty Seven Park sits at the top of Miami Beach where North Beach transitions into Surfside, a stretch that trades South Beach's crowds for a lower-key, residential rhythm while keeping the ocean at the doorstep. Surfside's small-town beach village, with its shops and restaurants, is a short walk north, and Mid-Beach's Faena District and the causeways to the mainland are a manageable drive south. It is a location for buyers who want the beach and the architecture without the noise, and who value being at the edge of the density rather than in the middle of it.

Is Eighty Seven Park right for you

Eighty Seven Park fits a specific buyer: someone who wants trophy Miami Beach real estate defined by architecture and nature rather than nightlife, who values a low-density, wellness-oriented building on a quiet stretch of sand, and who is buying at the very top of the market. It is less suited to a buyer who wants to be in the middle of South Beach's energy or who needs a large building's economies of scale. If the idea of a Renzo Piano tower set in its own beachfront park is the dream, start with our Eighty Seven Park building profile and our Mid-Beach and Surfside neighborhood guides, and check /market-stats for where the numbers stand today.

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