Trump releases design of presidential library skyscraper in Miami

US president Donald Trump has released a video rendering of a Miami skyscraper with glass facades that claims it will be the home of the Donald J Trump Presidential Library.

Trump shared the digital video of the skyscraper on his Truth Social account on Monday, with no commentary except for a link to a website hosting the video and some FAQs about the project.

According to the end title of the video, the skyscraper has been designed by American architecture studio Bermello Ajamil & Partners, a division of AEC conglomerate Woolpert, whose website promotes its defence, aviation and data centre divisions, among others.

The design of the skyscraper appears very contemporary, with glass-curtain-wall facades that taper back as it rises and recesses along two facades that make it appear more slender.

The tower has a massive entry pavilion fronted with gold, featuring a gilt presidential seal relief and a massive gold statue of Trump with his arms raised on top of it.

Through the glass that fronts the pavilion, the president's aircraft – Air Force One, a Boeing 747-200B with bicolour blue-and-white body paint – appears to fill the lobby, with more military aircraft on the upper lobby levels.

On top of the skyscraper's podium, renderings show a landscaped garden set in the highly geometric French style, with palm trees.

Some clips show a gold-lined elevator running from a lobby mezzanine to ground level, over the wing of the 747.

The design appears to reference the escalator at Trump Tower in New York, from which Trump descended when he first announced his bid for the presidency in 2015.

The presence of the escalator in some angles and not in others suggests that the video could have been made using AI video production.

Elsewhere in the video, a massive auditorium with undulating ceilings looks out through glass, with the Trump statue in this clip suggesting it will be placed directly over the entry pavilion.

Replicas of Trump's Oval Office and the proposed ballroom also appear in the video. In one instance, the neo-classical ballroom is attached directly to the highly modern circulation of the hallway.

The design seems to reference the Trump Tower skyscrapers from the president's business career, rather than the neoclassical designs his administration has been promoting during his time in office.

Currently, the country is waiting for the National Capital Planning Commission's decision on whether to allow the construction of the massive ballroom where the East Wing of the White House previously stood.