Rounding out Faena District will be its luxurious residential units, including the 18-story Fosters + Partners–designed Faena House, as well as the William Sofield–designed Faena Versailles Classic, which offers 22 exclusive residences. Faena House and Faena Versailles residents will enjoy privileged access to all hotel services provided by Faena Hotel Miami Beach, as well as all cultural offerings of the district. With the debut of Faena District Miami Beach, Faena remains true to its mission of creating inspiring cultural communities of world-class hotels, residences, exhibition and entertainment spaces, retail environments, and restaurants. Mr. Faena has long believed in balancing art, architecture, nature, and technology to develop neighborhoods that redefine how we live. Whether this latest Faena District will actually redefine the way we (or Miami Beach visitors and residents) live remains to be seen, but one thing’s for sure: just like Crawford did with her first magazine cover a few decades before, Faena is offering us a rarefied vision of the world. u
This page: A rendering of Faena Forum. Opposite page: The modern hospitality, fashion, art, and real estate impresario Alan Faena with Cindy Crawford at Casa Claridge’s Faena Miami Beach, during a party celebrating the launch of Crawford’s new book, Becoming (Rizzoli).
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Culture and theatrics are set to play an instrumental role. Inspired by the great opera houses of the world, the 3,000-square-foot Theater at Faena Hotel Miami Beach will present live cabaret shows for guests and the public alike. The property’s 22,000-square-foot Tierra Santa Spa brings to Miami the first South American–inspired spa, while the hotel’s fire kitchen, Los Fuegos by Francis Mallmann, marks the celebrated South American chef’s only restaurant in the United States (complete with asados, or outdoor barbecues). Faena District will include Faena Forum, an institution dedicated to cultural programming across disciplines. Designed by Rem Koolhaas/OMA, the 50,000-squarefoot building will debut in April 2016, and will feature a series of large flexible spaces for site-specific projects, installations, performances, and events. It will serve as a public venue for the exploration of ideas by professionals and practitioners from a range of fields, including the arts, sciences, technology, politics, and urbanism, to foster “transdisciplinary research and discovery.”