{"id":6387,"date":"2026-04-08T16:33:28","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T16:33:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/angesfinanciers.org\/?p=6387"},"modified":"2026-04-10T15:23:20","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T15:23:20","slug":"trumps-presidential-library-skyscraper-makes-sense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/angesfinanciers.org\/index.php\/2026\/04\/08\/trumps-presidential-library-skyscraper-makes-sense\/","title":{"rendered":"“Trump’s presidential library skyscraper makes sense”"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Critics who bash Donald Trump<\/a>‘s design concept for a presidential skyscraper library are too fixated on style and not on the wider trends in architecture’s uptake in politics, writes Matt Shaw<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Amidst the spiralling US-Israel war with Iran,<\/strong> Donald Trump thought it a good idea to release early renderings of a concept for his presidential library<\/a>. Led by his son Eric, the Donald J Trump Presidential Library Foundation, Inc has set up a website<\/a> for its fundraising, using seemingly AI-generated visuals to display a skyscraper for downtown Miami’s shoreline overlooking Biscayne Bay.<\/p>\n

Trump’s library tower, designed by little-known studio Bermello Ajamil & Partners<\/a>, has a certain amount of Miami swagger, with a glass facade carved diagonally like SOM’s Freedom Tower<\/a> in New York (complete with red, white, and blue spire) and bifurcated down the middle. It is an American habit to make skyscrapers monuments to the rich, and many architects are happy to take part. Zaha Hadid Architect’s One Thousand Museum<\/a>, an uber-luxury residential tower, is just three blocks north of the site.<\/p>\n

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It is pretty much what you would expect from Trump, and from a Miami skyscraper<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Otherwise, it is pretty much what you would expect from Trump, and from a Miami skyscraper. And maybe even from a Presidential Library. Though it is certainly a break from convention (something I thought was celebrated in design?), as it introduces a potential “hotel” program into a presidential center. If a student proposed this in a design studio, it would get a positive reaction.<\/p>\n

“I don’t believe in building libraries or museums,” Trump said on its release. Though this might seem a radical departure, it is honest in a way. Presidential libraries are not really libraries, but rather monuments to these “great” men. IM Pei, fresh off the award-winning Boston Government Center, was tapped for the JFK library. George W Bush’s library was designed by Robert AM Stern. The Lyndon B Johnson library has a gift store<\/a>, an animatronic LBJ, the president’s limo, an introductory theater, and an LBJ timeline.<\/p>\n