Faena Journal

Join us in supporting those impacted by the devastating building collapse in Surfside, Florida. Our collective thoughts and hearts are with the families and individuals affected by the tragedy at...

It's time to cruise in the fast lane. Much like Faena, Alfa Romeo strives for perfect harmony between beauty and purpose, passion and technology, emotion, and engineering, in order to create true...

During July and August guests can tend tattered nerves at Tierra Santa Healing House with a thoughtful selection of specially priced body therapies and salon services, as well as fitness, yoga, and...

A tropical oasis of lush greenery and bohemian brio, Gitano brings an air of Tulum to South Beach with delicious food, Latinleaning libations and spirited diversion. As the sun starts to wane, a sun...

With a shared passion for excellence and a spirit of inventiveness, the fourthgeneration Italian coffee company Lavazza and the Faena District have linked up to bring sustainable ¡Tierra! coffee to...

Mallmann protégé Argentine chef Sebastián Benítez has crafted a summer menu that focuses on simple, fresh ingredients. Chef suggestions range from crispy artichokes sprinkled with sesame and sourdough...

In the amber glow of tapered candles, a polished coterie of guests nestles around tables spread with truffle and champagne risotto, seared prime steak and yellowfin oshizushi. “The dishes are...

Helmed by fashion industry veterans Jeff Lasota and Danielle Licata, Curio is stocked with handpicked designer labels and vintage pieces you won’t find anywhere else. New styles are debuting for the...

Late last January, while the world weathered the enduring grip of the coronavirus pandemic, an exciting announcement emerged from the hotel industry, a sector especially decimated by the impact of...

Alan Faena has partnered with Argentine couture designer Paula Selby Avellaneda to bring a supernova of style to Faena’s Tierra Santa spa boutique in the form of Big Bang, a retail shop featuring one...

Faena Theater Presents A New Journey Into Suggestive Tales of Love and Seduction Faena Live is pleased to announce Tryst – A Lovers’ Rendezvous, an original new production presented by Alan Faena in...

FAENA HOTEL MIAMI BEACH is proud to announce that it is has become Sharecare Health Security VERIFIED™ with Forbes Travel Guide. The comprehensive facility verification helps ensure that guests and...

Forbes Travel Guide (“FTG”), the only global rating system for luxury hotels, restaurants and spas, today announced its 2021 Star Awards. FAENA HOTEL MIAMI BEACH earned a new Forbes Travel Guide Five...

A look inside the imagination of Cuban artist and Dreaming with Lions mastermind, Alexandre Arrechea

Voted by the people, for the people, Faena Hotel Miami Beach and Faena Hotel Buenos Aires is making a lasting impression around the world.

Jamilah Sabur, Suzi Analogue, and Paperwater will work in-residence at the Faena Forum, transforming the OMA designed building into temporary artist studios.

Alan Faena and Accor announce the Launch of a Global Strategic Partnership to Expand the Faena Brand Around the World. "Faena Districts are shifting the gravitational centers of the cities where they reside, making a true difference in their communities." —Sébastien Bazin, Chairman and CEO, Accor

Faena Rose is our art and culture-based private members club, which brings together a dynamic community of like minded individuals.

A look inside the genius of Pao's Chef de Cuisine, Benjamin Murray

From December 2 through 8, 2019, Faena presented its highly anticipated second annual Faena Festival during Miami Art Week.

Much like Faena, Alfa Romeo strives for perfect harmony between beauty and purpose, passion and technology, emotion and engineering, to create true works of art.

Making your winter getaway plans have never been easier. Unwind where sunshine restores, ocean air refreshes and five-star service relaxes with the exclusive One-Click Miami Weekend from Blade. This...

Brace yourself for a spellbindingly sadistic story based on the critically acclaimed film by Peter Greenaway, and brought to life by reimagined pop music, riveting dance, and outstanding food and...

Winter Music Conference, now officially part of Miami Music Week, returns to Faena Forum this March 25-28 for its 34th annual edition.

Since its opening in 2004, Faena Hotel Buenos Aires, designed by Philippe Starck, has redefined the experience of travel and inspired living by merging the elements of art, culture, entertainment...

We created a unique treatment combining different modalities so our guests could have a greater experience of our wellness philosophy —said Spa Director Agustina Caminos. “Tierra Santa Healing House...

The Sanskrit scripture, The Bhagavad Gita, tells us that “yoga is the journey of the self, through the self, to the self.” Tierra Santa’s skillful instructors lead guests through the ancient practice...

Situated between the newly-opened Faena Bazaar and historic Casa Faena hotel, Alfa Romeo Faena Park is a state-of-the-art parking structure in the Faena District designed by OMA, a leading...

Locals coming to stay are treated to daily complimentary breakfast for two as well as a $25 resort credit to put towards sundowners on the terrace at the hotel’s First Call happy hour or enjoy a...

Maison St~Germain comes together with artists for installations at Gitano at Casa Faena and Tree of Life at Faena Hotel Miami Beach for Miami Art Week.

"I had a field day writing this song," shares music icon Boy George on his original theme song for The Cook, The Thief, His Wife & Her Lover open now at Faena Theater.

Faena Bazaar’s new collaboration with Curio brings a curated design collection, and exclusive pop ups to our neighborhood.

While Gitano was born in the jungles of Tulum as a gathering place for the sun-kissed jetset to dine and dance, the brand has been quickly expanding in New York, and most recently Miami.

Faena Hotel Miami Beach guests can explore an art deco wonderland from a newly-minted Alfa Romeo Stelvio or Alfa Romeo Giulia, the property’s new fleet of complimentary house cars. Sit back and relax...

Plus a new show at Guest Gallery Dot FiftyOne. While last month’s installation at Faena Bazaar Lobby hinged around Miami Music Week with an eye-catching art installation of wall-to-wall CDs beckoning...

Published February 1, 2019 Faena Group has partnered with legendary Italian automaker Alfa Romeo. For guests of Faena Miami Beach, this partnership offers a chance to ride in Alfa Romeo’s most...

This year, Faena is partnering with the legendary Italian automaker by rechristening its OMA-designed Faena Park building as Alfa Romeo Faena Park. The state-of-the- art parking structure, which...

This April, Faena Rose is delighted to host America’s leading Latino dance organization, Ballet Hispánico, for an exclusive performance followed by a Q&A with Artistic Director & CEO Eduardo Vilaro...

The Lady & The Sailor It all starts with the essentials. That’s what inspired designer Brittany Correy over a decade ago to launch The Lady & The Sailor based on her philosophy that “good basics are...

Step into a fantastical world where the lines blur between artist and audience. Part cirque nouveau, part dance rave and part Magic City, the new Nocturne series at Faena Theater is serving up an all...

Guest Galleries at Faena Bazaar Guest Galleries —a new series of installations in Faena District curated by Faena Art— will launch on Friday, February 15th with DotFiftyone as the first guest of this...

Flaming Hearts For Valentine’s Day, whisk your significant other away to Faena Miami Beach and enjoy a curated experience designed to fan the flames of your kindred heart. Slip away from the outside...

The spa itself and our monthly programs are designed to uplift the spirit, heal the emotional and physical body, and help guests connect to the highest level of existence. —said Spa Director Agustina...

The first-ever Faena Festival in Miami Beach invited the community to contemplate the concept of America through experimental installations and performances that explored the multiplicity of communities and cultures across the continent.

A Perfect Pairing Sommelier Dragan Culibrk dishes on what to pair with Los Fuegos’ winter menu. “A gourmet meal without a glass of wine just seems tragic to me somehow,” professed American country...

Celebrate Faena’s South American roots at Los Fuegos with Christmas and New Year’s Eve dinner menus resplendent with grilled delights. Dashes of Faena’s signature red accent the restaurant’s crescent...

The nation’s top celebrity chefs are sharpening their knives and heading to Miami’s 18th annual South Beach Wine & Food Festival ®. Over 90 culinary events will be sating foodies across the city from February 20 through February 24, 2019.

Building upon parades, carnivals, and other public ceremonials from across the Americas and the Caribbean, Tide by Side inaugurated the Faena District Miami Beach with new commissions and American premieres of works by an international cast of artists and performers.

Faena Hotel Miami Beach Voted Number One Property in America and one of the top hotels in the world by Condé Nast Traveler’s 2017 Readers Choice Awards.

Faena is proud to receive five prestigious AHEAD Americas Awards for excellence in hospitality design and experience for its Faena Miami Beach development.

Faena Rose is our art and culture-based private members club, which brings together a dynamic community of like-minded individuals through a robust, year-round calendar of the most engaging and transformative cultural experiences.

Faena Theater draws the curtain on its newest show. Do you have the stomach for revenge? Find out on October 18 during the highly-anticipated launch of Faena Theater’s delicious dinner and theater production, The Cook, The Thief, His Wife & Her Lover.

Dutch duo Studio Drift, in partnership with BMW and Pace Gallery, premiered Franchise Freedom, a performative artwork on the beach of Faena District during Miami Art Week 2017.

When the sun goes down and the curtains come up at Faena Theater, guests are immersed in a fantastical world where the lines between performer and audience are blurred, and anything can happen.

Opening in December, Casa Faena will be the new home to Grupo Gitano’s first Miami outpost. The new Gitano at Casa Faena will dish up a taste of Tulum and the Yucatán featuring signature tropical vibes, gipsy-disco sounds, refreshing cocktails and Mexican flavors.

Spend a memorable night with your heart’s desire at a tantalizing showing of Samsara.

This year’s Miami Music Week was one for the books with a new iteration of the Winter Music Conference debuting at Faena Forum and a variety of incendiary performative installations presented by Faena Art.

As the Faena Festival combines art and technology, art and faith, and art and food, Tierra Santa Healing House participates in Miami Art Week through the marriage of art and wellness

On December 2, the world’s reigning Queen of Pop delivered an evening of unmatched art and entertainment in the name of charity, securing $7.5 million to benefit Raising Malawi.

Amidst the hustle and bustle of Miami Art Week, guests had the opportunity to retreat to Tierra Santa Healing House to relax and rejuvenate in ultimate style.

Keeping with its mission to serve the community through the arts, Faena Miami Beach is a proud sponsor of Miami Dade College’s Miami Film Festival (MFF), an annual ten-day festival that showcases over one hundred independent American and international films in venues across the city.

Faena Art presents “Melodies of Certain Damage (Opus 2)”, a new sonic and immersive, site-specific exhibition by Israeli artist Naama Tsabar.

Opening in December, be immersed in a multisensory and multistory journey of discovery weaving together of-the-moment designers and must-see art installations thanks to Faena Bazaar’s new collaboration with Curio.

An evening of auditory and visual elevation by artists and musicians who moved fluidly between and across disciplines towards visuals scores and sonic experiences.

The Faena Festival, which explores the different narratives and mythologies associated with America, debuted on April 8th in Buenos Aires and spread across the city in collaboration with the Semana del Arte and ArteBA, one of the largest contemporary art fairs in Latin America.

While raising a glass to Miami Art Week at Hennessy on the Rocks, Faena Beach Dome’s oceanfront deck featured live DJ performances, immersive artistic projections and innovative craft cocktails. LIVE...

Faena Art added a touch of disco to Miami’s popular III Points independent music festival in February with an artist-designed roller skating rink open to the public.

Faena Live’s original production—Samsara Cabaret—is a transcendent story about the life, death and rebirth of Artemis, the show’s beautiful heroine, told through music, dance, cirque-arts and sensuality.

Take your weekends to the next level with Faena’s lavish Sunday Asado Brunch.

As part of the mission to maintain the culture at the heart of Faena District, Faena Forum hosted Second Sundays on June 11th to celebrate the communities of Miami Beach with ángeles veloces arcanos fugaces, a participatory art installation by assume vivid astro focus that reimagines a roller dancing rink.

Choreographies of Salt was an interactive artwork that revolved around a simulated archaeological discovery of a siren’s skeletal remains found along the banks of Río de la Plata outside the Faena Art...

Spring is a time for clearing space for new beginnings. This March, Tierra Santa Healing House plays host a wide array of workshops and classes from color courses and feng shui to yoga and Pranic Healing.

The culinary use of flowers dates back to China, Greece, and Rome thousands of years ago, but it has always been present in traditions around the world.

The larger-than-life presence of Israeli-born and New York-based performance artist Naama Tsabar graced the Faena Art Center Buenos Aires last month.

In his early 20s, Argentina native Alan Faena discovered a plot of vacant beachfront scrubland near the summer stomping grounds of his childhood—Punta del Este, Uruguay. The remote stretch of land...

Alan Faena, his numerous collaborators, and innumerable community supporters, are delighted to be acknowledged as an integral and essential part of Miami’s arts district.

Raúl de Nieves made a name for himself treating modest materials with meticulous attention and “turning the mundane into the fantastical”.

For months, artist Peter Tunney carefully collected giant pieces of the infamous Taj Mahal casino from Atlantic City to convert these ruins into The Sinking of the Taj Mahal, a site specific installation at Faena Playa.

At Faena, wine-making is a celebrated art form that guests can fully appreciate by sampling our exclusive range of private label Malbec wines produced in Mendoza, Argentina.

Leave behind the daily grind and whisk yourself away to the sun-kissed shores of Faena Miami Beach. While you wiggle your toes in the powdery sand and shade yourself under our signature red-and-white...

A biennial international juried prize, the Faena Prize for the Arts recognizes artistic experimentation, encourages post-disciplinary and temporal exploration, and promotes inquiry of the infinite links among art, technology and design.

Throughout his artistic career, Antoni Miralda (Spain, 1942) has harnessed the power of food through rituals, ceremonials, and processionals for over five decades.

Miami Swim Week at Faena District From July 11-18, Faena Bazaar will morph into Coterie: Pop-Up in partnership with Maris Collective during Miami Swim Week. The immersive retail experience will...

Faena Rose, our art- and culture-based private members club, will welcome internationally-acclaimed chef Nina Compton as part of its guest chef dinner series, curated by Rose Founding Member and SOBEWFF Founder, Lee Brian Schrager.

Regarded as the spiritual heart of Faena Miami Beach, Tierra Santa Healing House is a holistic sanctuary dedicated to the art of living well.

Unifying a large swath of Faena’s beachfront is artist Phillip K. Smith III’s 120 Degree Arc East-Southeast, a new iteration of the work he created earlier this year at Desert X in the Coachella...

Exclusive editions include Patron en Lalique tequila, of which only 500 bottles have ever been produced, Avion Extra Anejo Reserve, a tequila aged over 44 months and served in crystal cups, and Casa...

A site-specific experience designed to bring people together through art, imagination and innovation, this famously Instagrammable museum invited guests to lose themselves in a candy-coated world of...

Faena Forum was taken over by two monumental site-specific installations that together convert the entire building into an immersive, multi-sensory experience. Guests of all ages were invited to...

The 3D-mapped projections that composed Ediacaran Mind were invitations for the community to experience contemporary art in the public sphere as an urban architectural intervention. Working mostly...

Cricket Shelter is an urban farming system and temporary shelter that minimizes the ecological footprint of protein-rich food production. It is a well-established fact that industrialized animal...

We believe such a grand romance should be reflected in a way that’s as beautiful as your love story. At Faena, your wedding is more than just an event. It’s a dreamscape. And we are the masters of...

The Art Deco gem is wrapped in slick black marble, gold trim and floor-to-ceiling mirrors carved by the hands of Argentine artist Amaya Bouquet—a veritable Secret Garden to cradle visitors in a...

Every month, Eric Lopez will guide guests through the Bert Hellinger-developed Family Constellations methodology, facilitating a powerful healing ritual where each participant inches closer to...

Just in time for Art Basel, Alan Faena officially unveiled the newly completed, 43,000-square-foot Faena Forum.

Readers of Conde Nast Traveler magazine have also named Faena Hotel Miami Beach as the number one hotel in Magic City for a second consecutive year, as well as a top 10 hotel in the United States, while editors at Travel + Leisure have once again placed the hotel on its highly regarded World’s Best Awards list.

Chakra, which literally translates to “wheel” or “disk” in Sanskrit, is a term that refers to the wheels of energy and corresponding nerve hubs located throughout the body. There are seven main...

Peace is always a choice. No matter where you are in life, nor what’s happening around you, you always have the power to choose your response to any given situation. It can be difficult to find the...

While the means of creating a perfect crudo may have changed, the principle remains the same: it’s an artful dance between preparer and materials, relying on the delicate balance of flavors to...

Starting on July 1st, 2017, wellness seekers can enjoy a wealth of beauty and health experiences at a special prices Sunday through Friday at our world-renowned Tierra Santa spa, described as an...

The Miami native, who first discovered her love of singing at the tender age of two, has cultivated her craft in the intervening 19 years, leading her to the opulent Living Room stage at Faena Miami...

Peaceful living pivots around the axis of kindness, compassion and non-harming on every level, from what we eat to how we show up our relationships. Inner peace happens when we live in harmony with...

Offering an exclusive discount on our best available rate, Faena Hotel Miami Beach invites you to wake up to a complimentary American breakfast every morning on our alfresco poolside Veranda before...

Sleek and grand, these one- to three-bedroom residences boast open-plan living spaces surrounded by panoramas of both sea and sky. Each residence is the realized dream of founder Alan Faena and master...

Faena Hotel Miami Beach is humbled and proud to announce that it has maintained its elite status as a Forbes Five Star property. The accolade is a testament to the hotel’s thoughtful service that...

A collaboration with The Centre d’Art Contemporain Genève, the Biennale of Moving Images attracted thousands of people during its opening night at Faena Bazaar where guests got a first glimpse of 28...

Alan Faena believes in the transformative power of the arts and continually seeks to provide a platform to interdisciplinary artists from around the world to showcase their work. In keeping with this...

Chosen for his exceptional artistic vision, Juan Gatti designed the dome in an effort to take art off the wall and onto a setting that enveloped the audience and captivated their imaginations...

The Tierra Santa fitness facility blends sophisticated training and smart technology in the purest and simplest of settings. Each day our team of experts will be waiting to offer a new beginning, challenge, or opportunity to change your life, improve your health, or enhance your body.

Tierra Santa Healing House combines ancient healing techniques with cutting clinical technology. For use in the spa’s signature facial treatments, we have handpicked the French skincare line...