PRESS RELEASE Rapperswil-Jona, 11 August 2020
Enzo Enea complements Zaha Hadid's last architectural legacy in Miami The new architectural beacon of downtown Miami is now presenting itself in full. On 62 floors, "One Thousand Museum" incorporates elevated living visions with a view of Museum Park and Biscayne Bay. In the process, Enzo Enea creates the link to nature: his landscape architecture carefully rounds off the curvy formal language of the recently deceased Pritzker Prize winner Zaha Hadid. Downtown Miami has been enriched by an architectural landmark. Landscapes designed by Enzo Enea and Zaha Hadid's architecture flow seamlessly into each other in the residential tower "One Thousand Museum". They began the development of the joint project in 2013. Shortly after her last visit to the building site in March 2016, Zaha Hadid passed away unexpectedly in Miami. In the USA, "One Thousand Museum" remains the last iconic building of the first woman to win the Pritzker Prize. At the same time, it is the only high-rise building left behind by the British-Iraqi Grand Lady of Architecture in the western hemisphere. "As a creative visionary, Zaha Hadid remains for me an eternal source of inspiration," says Enzo Enea, founder and Creative Director of Enea Landscape Architecture. "It is an honour for me to have been able to plan this special final project with her and to complete it as she intended together with our partners." One Thousand Museum was designed by Pritzker Award-winning architect Zaha Hadid and developed by Louis Birdman, Gregg Covin, Kevin Venger and Regalia Group.
Natural continuation of Zaha Hadid's architecture A white exoskeleton in Hadid's organically curve-rich creative signature forms the supporting and bracing structure of the 216-metre tall building. The column-like netting fans out along the "One Thousand Museum" and becomes narrower as it goes upwards. Biscayne Bay is reflected in the crystalline glass structure that encases the 62 floors in a facetted manner. "In the landscape design, we assumed Hadid's unique formal language and extended it organically," explains Enzo Enea. "We did not want to create a contrast to the tower, but rather strengthen its architectural effect in our garden staging." On the sea side, "One Thousand Museum" finds itself adjacent to Museum Park, the green lungs of downtown Miami. Zaha Hadid's residential tower is vegetated by gardens of Enzo Enea on four different levels. At ground level, Wild Tamarinds (Lysiloma latisiliquum), Live Oaks (Quercus virginiana), Strawberry Guavas (Psidium cattleianum) and Bridalveil Tree (Caesalpinia granadillo) provide shade towards mosaic waves of paving by Brazilian landscape architect Roberto Burle Marx on Biscayne Boulevard. The landscape and building embraces these wave patterns on the streetscape that lead to the entrances of "One Thousand Museum" and thus also creates link from the boulevard to the building. However, in the design of the outside space, Enea was also inspired by nature, more precisely by river rocks polished by water.
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