Faena Hotel Buenos Aires

The Faena Hotel Buenos Aires, formally known as Faena Hotel+Universe, is a five-star hotel in the Puerto Madero section of Buenos Aires.[1]

External view of the hotel.

Overview

The lot where the hotel sits today was originally purchased in 1902 by Bunge y Born, a leading local agribusiness firm. They had one of the largest wheat mills in the country, which allowed them to establish Molinos Río de la Plata (a leader in the local retail-foods market).[2]

The structure measured 25,000 m2 (270,000 ft2) in indoor area and was built with bricks imported from Manchester. The development of a new port further north after 1911 led to the original docklands' obsolescence, however, and by 1998, the shuttered El Porteño building (as the historic mill was known locally) had been slated for demolition.[3]

Saved from the wrecking ball by local cultural preservation associations, the building was purchased by former fashion designer Alan Faena, who, after a US$40 million investment, opened the Faena Hotel in October 2004.[4]

Faena, together with interior designer Philippe Starck, developed the structure into a hotel with 88 rooms and residential 80 units. The hotel includes the rustic El Mercado restaurant, Bistro Sur restaurant, Library Lounge bar, La Cave wine cellar and private dining room, fashion boutique, El Cabaret, and Faena Spa. El Cabaret hosts the number-one tango show in Buenos Aires, "Rojo Tango". The hotel forms the core of the larger Faena District in Buenos Aires. Faena worked with Norman Foster to create the Faena Aleph Residences - Foster and Partners' first project in Latin America, completed in January 2013.[5]

Notable guests
  • The hotel featured in the 2015 film Focus.
gollark: I really need some way to make the Soviet national anthem come out less... garbled.
gollark: The main difference between real electricity and RF is just RF can be much more conveniently stored. Everything has nice buffers in it.
gollark: You can conveniently accumulate it in machine buffers, there are no voltages or AC vs DC or direction or resistance/impedance to worry about, no weird electromagnetic things going on, machines will just run at lower speed if you're lacking power (I experienced this while running my entire machine setup off a cheap 5RF/t solar panel on kukipack).
gollark: It's meant to be energy, but it *works* as if it's basically just a fluid.
gollark: Also RF-powered furnaces, because RF is just so weird itself.

References
  1. Trip Advisor: Faena Hotel + Universe
  2. educ.ar - el caso de Bunge y Born (in Spanish)
  3. Clarín (7/24/1998) (in Spanish)
  4. Clarín (in Spanish)
  5. "Foster + Partners Completes First Project in South America: Climate-Friendly Faena Aleph Apartments", Inhabitat.com

Faena Hotel and Universe

This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.