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

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

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 bot...