Zaha Hadid
Founder (Deceased)
Miami Connection
Hadid's One Thousand Museum, a 62-story tower on Biscayne Boulevard with its distinctive exoskeleton, redefined Miami's luxury residential architecture and earned nicknames like Scorpion Building for its hurricane-resistant, curvaceous design. Her 2005 Miami Design District sculpture on the Moore Building showcased her signature style, influencing local designers like the Bouroullec Brothers. Zaha Hadid Architects continues her legacy with projects like the proposed Champlain Towers replacement in Surfside and Villa Miami in Edgewater, extending her curved, asymmetrical aesthetic across South Florida.
About
Born in Baghdad in 1950, Zaha Hadid rose to fame as the first woman to win the Pritzker Architecture Prize in 2004 for her revolutionary parametric and fluid designs devoid of right angles. Her career highlights include transformative buildings worldwide, blending neo-futurism with organic shapes. Hadid's relationship with Miami began in 2005 when she received Design Miami's inaugural Designer of the Year award, commissioning a sculpture for the Miami Design District's Moore Building. She owned a condo at The Residences at W South Beach, making Miami a personal home in her later years. One Thousand Museum, her final residential project in the Western Hemisphere started in 2013, was completed by Zaha Hadid Architects in 2019 after her death in 2016. She passed away in Miami on March 31, 2016.