One Thousand Museum, Residential skyscraper in Downtown Miami, United States

One Thousand Museum is a residential tower in Downtown Miami standing about 210 meters tall across 62 floors, defined by continuous curved patterns in white fiberglass-reinforced concrete. The building houses apartments ranging from townhouses to full-floor units, along with a pool deck and spa facilities.

Zaha Hadid designed One Thousand Museum as her first residential tower in the Western Hemisphere, working with local firm O'Donnell Dannwolf Partners Architects. After Hadid's death, project director Chris Lepine of Zaha Hadid Architects saw it through; the tower was topped out in February 2018 and completed in 2019. Its 5,000 glass fiber reinforced concrete exoskeleton pieces were shipped from Dubai early in construction.

The tower's nickname, Scorpion Tower, comes from the exoskeleton's pinched hourglass profile, which PBS used in its 2018 Impossible Builds episode. The building was Zaha Hadid's first residential tower in the Western Hemisphere and one of her last projects, finished after her death by project director Chris Lepine.

The tower is a private condominium, so interiors and the rooftop pool are closed to visitors; the curving exoskeleton is best seen from the street and from Museum Park across Biscayne Boulevard. Look up along the facade to follow the five thousand fiberglass-reinforced concrete pieces shipped from Dubai.

The exoskeleton is made of 5,000 pieces of glass fiber reinforced concrete shipped from Dubai early in construction. The deep foundation required auger-cast piles drilled over 170 feet, two of which broke a Miami-Dade County depth record. PBS's Impossible Builds called it the "Scorpion Tower" before completion.