A new Zaha Hadid-designed skyscraper in Downtown Miami is poised to reinvent the city’s skyline, along with boosting the city’s international renown.

The One Thousand Museum luxury condominium, a skyscraper set to be constructed on Miami’s Biscayne Boulevard, is certainly a structure with a tall order of expectations to fulfill.

Not only is the 61-story structure designed by world-renowned architect Zaha Hadid, an Iraqi-born, London-educated architect who received the Pritzker Prize, often called “Architecture’s Nobel;” not only is its spidery, modern design unlike anything in Miami’s relatively tame skyline; and not only will its units sell for an unbelievable $900 per square foot.

One Thousand Museum, a planned condominium designed by famed architect Zaha Hadid, is poised to reinvent Miami’s skyline.

Beyond all those details, One Thousand Museum has been pegged as nothing short of Miami’s future, its bolt to the forefront of the world’s metropolitan arenas.

Cathy Leff, the director of the Wolfsonian-FIU museum in Miami, put it best in a Miami Herald article.

“It’s a sign of confidence in our present,” said Leff, who is also a friend of Hadid. “We were always the city of the future. We no longer have to define ourselves that way. We are a city of now and it should be defined by the best designers.”

One Thousand Museum – A Building for a New Miami

Other details about One Thousand Museum include:

• Units at the building will range from $4 million for smaller units (that will indeed be the price floor for the building) to $30 million+ for penthouses.
• The aforementioned $900-per-square-foot pricing puts One Thousand Museum’s pricing at roughly double the price of a typical downtown Miami condo.
• As the Miami Herald noted, Hadid is the third winner of the Pritzker Prize currently working on a Miami condominium; in addition, Sir Norman Foster is designing a tower next to Saxony Hotel, Herzog & de Meuron is working on a tower in Sunny Isles Beach and Rem Koolhaas’ Office of Metropolitan Architecture is vying for the planned redevelopment of the Miami Beach Convention Center.

Patrik Schumacher, a director of Zaha Hadid Architects, said One Thousand Museum will bring something new to Miami.

“We love Miami, and we feel we can create a beautiful addition to the skyline that will define the skyline in a new way,” Schumacher said. “I think it will have a new kind of appeal.”