Photos: Flying High
With Faena district, the hotelier Alan Faena aims to transform Miami into a world-class cultural capital—mega amenities included.
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Faena House.
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Alan Faena, at home in Miami, October.
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Alan Faena at the site of the cathedral at Faena House.
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The exterior of Faena House.
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The view from the penthouse of Faena House
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Faena Hotel.
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Fauna House.
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A perspective of the construction of Faena Forum.
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A perspective of the construction of Faena Forum.
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Ximena Caminos, in front of Transchromie Faena, 2014–2015, an installation by Carlos Cruz-Diez, at Faena House.
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This page, clockwise, from above: At the Faena Arts Center, Buenos Aires, are Franz Ackermann’s Walking South, 2012. Courtesy of Faena.
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Faena, with Ernesto Neto’s O Bicho Suspenso na Paisagem, 2011. Courtesy of Faena.
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detail of Manuel Ameztoy’s installation Pop-up Paradises, 2012. Courtesy of Faena.
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FaenaFaena and Caminos, 2013. Courtesy of Faena.
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Los Carpinteros’ Plane, 2011. Courtesy of Faena.
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Baz Luhrmann, Faena, and Len Blavatnik, in New York, 2014. Courtesy of Faena.
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In Faena and Caminos’s home: Alan’s hat has a gilded perch.
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An antique headboard shares space on the mantel with a small artwork given to Caminos by the Belgian and Dutch design duo Studio Job.
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Austrian wooden deer heads with real antlers flank a window.
