丨美国迈阿密丨Zaha Hadid（扎哈·哈迪德）

Check out newly released photos of Zaha Hadid's One Thousand Museum in Miami

One Thousand Museum Residences, the first and last residential project of the late Zaha Hadid in the U.S., debuts in Miami. Image © Alena Graff

One Thousand Museum

, first-and-only residential tower designed by the late

Zaha Hadid

in the Western Hemisphere, makes its debut in Miami's Museum Park this week.

The residential tower stands prominently alongside neighboring condo towers and other notable Miami structures like the Miami World Center and the Patricia and Phillip Frost Museum of Science. Standing at 709 feet (216 meters), the 62-story tower's design reminds us of Hadid's love for combing angles with curves, and of her penchant for elegantly crafting buildings of massive scale. Yet, rather than merely highlighting the laundry list of superlative stats embodied by the project, let's appreciate the structure's design by working our way from its exterior to its interior.

Exterior Images

Image © Alena Graff

First, let's start with the structure. According to ZHA's project director

Chris Lepine in an interview with

Architect Magazine

, "the structure - which appears as if it were eroded form a solid - reads from top to bottom as one continuous liquid frame. The tower represents a line of research in high-rise construction that explores a fluid architectural expression consistent with engineering for the entire height of the structure."

Image © Alena Graff

Image © Alena Graff

For those interested to learn about the structural precautions taken by the project's designers and engineers with regards to hurricanes and other natural disasters, Lepine explains: "While the architects have worked to express the structure and its beauty with al tall, slender tower, the structure itself is 'purposeful' in that it is rigid, stiff, and hurricane resistant. It's not a diagrid structure - but its curving lines allow a diagonal bracketing action."

Image © Alena Graff

Interior Images

Image © Alena Graff

Similar to the tower's exterior, the interior space provides an immersive feeling of lavishness. From the column-free floor plates to the never-ending supply of curves and fluid lines, the design of the interiors of One Thousand Museum is considered a major selling point for the luxury project.

Aquatic Area. Image © Alena Graff

Top of staircase to Sky Tower. Image © Alena Graff

A project seven years in the making, the long-anticipated luxury residential tower has a stunning look, but will that be enough to fill units?

recent piece by Candace Taylor of

The Wall Street Journal

questions the tower's ability to sell remaining units despite its stellar design and the superstar architect affiliated with the project. According to Taylor, "the developer is trying to sell the building's remaining units amid a softening condo market and oversupply of a luxury product."

Residential Unit. Image © Juan-Pablo Castro