One Thousand Museum Tower in Miami Design, Florida Property, USA Architecture Photos
One Thousand Museum Tower in Miami
Feb 25, 2020
One Thousand Museum Miami
Design: Zaha Hadid Architects
Location: Miami, FL, USA

Photographs by Hufton+Crow
One Thousand Museum is a 62-storey residential tower opposite Museum Park in Miami. With views across Biscayne Bay, this popular 30-acre park was redeveloped in 2013 as one of downtown Miami?s primary public spaces and includes the city?s new art and science museums.

The tower?s design continues Zaha Hadid Architects? research into high-rise construction that defines a fluid architectural expression consistent with the engineering for the entire height of a structure.

The One Thousand Museum building?s concrete exoskeleton structures its perimeter in a web of flowing lines that integrates lateral bracing with structural support.
Reading from top to bottom as one continuous frame, columns at its base fan out as the tower rises to meet at the corners, forming a rigid tube highly resistant to Miami?s demanding wind loads; its curved supports creating hurricane resistant diagonal bracketing.

?The design expresses a fluidity that is both structural and architectural,? explains Zaha Hadid Architects? project director Chris Lepine. ?The structure gets thicker and thinner as required, bringing a continuity between the architecture and engineering.?

The One Thousand Museum incorporates glass fibre reinforced concrete form-work which rema...