One Thousand Museum

What It Is

One Thousand Museum is a high-end residential tower on Biscayne Boulevard, completed in 2019 and designed by the late architect Zaha Hadid. Its defining feature is a sculpted white exoskeleton that curves up the corners and across the facade, doing structural work while reading as pure sculpture. The building is reportedly the only skyscraper Hadid designed in the Western Hemisphere, finished after her death in 2016. Inside, the units are full-floor and half-floor residences pitched at the very top of the market, with amenities to match.

Why It Matters

The tower sits on the same downtown stretch as the city's marquee museums and its arena, part of a cultural and luxury spine that grew up along downtown's bayfront. It is a clean marker of the LatAm Capital era, when Miami became a place where global capital parks itself in trophy real estate and where a starchitect's signature building reads as an investment as much as a home. That a designer of Hadid's stature chose Miami for her only skyscraper in the Americas says something about the city's pull as a Latin American business capital wearing American architecture.

Neighborhoods: Downtown Miami Eras: The Latam Capital Era Related people: Zaha Hadid