Fontainebleau Miami Beach
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Fontainebleau Miami Beach
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Miami Landmark
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Fontainebleau Miami Beach (2011)
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| Location | 4441 Collins Ave, Miami Beach, Florida, US 33140 |
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| Coordinates | 25°49′5″N 80°7′30″W / 25.81806°N 80.12500°WCoordinates: 25°49′5″N 80°7′30″W / 25.81806°N 80.12500°W |
| Area | 180,525 m2 (1,943,150 sq ft) |
| Built | 1954 |
| Architect | Morris Lapidus |
| Architectural style | Miami Modern Architecture (MiMo) |
| Visitation | 16,349,845 (2015) |
| Website | www |
| NRHP Reference # | 08001318 |
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| Added to NRHP | December 22, 2008 |
| Designated NHL | June 24, 2010 |
| Designated MFL | December 9, 2011 |
The Fontainebleau Miami Beach (also known as Fontainebleau Hotel) is one of the most historically and architecturally significant hotels in Miami Beach, Florida. Opened in 1954 and designed by Morris Lapidus, it was arguably the most luxurious hotel in Miami Beach, and is thought to be the most significant building of Lapidus's career. In 2007, the Fontainebleau Hotel was ranked ninety-third in the American Institute of Architects list of "America's Favorite Architecture". On April 18, 2012, the AIA's Florida Chapter ranked the Fontainebleau first on its list of Florida Architecture: 100 Years. 100 Places.
The Fontainebleau Miami Beach is situated on oceanfront Collins Avenue in the heart of Millionaire's Row and is currently owned by Fontainebleau Resorts. Fronting the Atlantic Ocean, the 1,504-room resort features two new towers, 12 restaurants and bars. a 40,000-square-foot (3,700 m2) spa with mineral-rich water therapies and co-ed swimming pools, and oceanfront poolscape featuring a free-form pool shaped as a re-interpretation of Lapidus’ signature bow-tie design.
Lapidus once wrote, “If you create a stage and it is grand, everyone who enters will play their part.” He conceived of the ideas for the hotel each morning as he took a subway from Flatbush to his office in Manhattan. The hotel was built by hotelier Ben Novack on the Harvey Firestone estate. Novack owned and operated the hotel until its bankruptcy in 1977.
The Fontainebleau is famous in judicial circles for its victory in the landmark 1959 Florida District Courts of Appeal decision, Fontainebleau Hotel Corp. v. Forty-Five Twenty-Five, Inc. 114 So. 2d 357, in which the Fontainebleau Hotel successfully appealed an injunction by the neighboring Eden Roc Hotel, to prevent construction of an expansion that blocked sunlight to the Eden Roc's swimming pool. The Court rejected the Eden Roc's claim to an easement allowing sunlight, in favor of affirming the Fontainebleau's vertical property rights to build on its land. It stated that the "ancient lights" doctrine has been unanimously repudiated in the United States.
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