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The Fontainebleau Miami Beach or the Fontainebleau Hotel is one of the most historically and architecturally significant hotels on Miami Beach. Opened in 1954 and designed by Morris Lapidus, it was arguably the most luxurious hotel on 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".〔http://www.buildingonline.com/news/viewnews.pl?id=5896〕 On April 18, 2012, the AIA's Florida Chapter ranked the Fontainebleau first on its list of ''Florida Architecture: 100 Years. 100 Places''.〔(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 1504-room resort’s most distinguishing features include two new towers; 12 restaurants and bars; a 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. ==History== 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,〔(Opinion )〕 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.〔(FOUNTAINEBLEAU HOTEL CORP., a Florida corporation, and Charnofree Corporation, a Florida corporation, Appellants, v. FORTY-FIVE TWENTY-FIVE, INC., a Florida corporation, Appellee. ) @ LexisNexis Academic〕〔(Case @ University of Chicago )〕 It stated that the "ancient lights" doctrine has been unanimously repudiated in the United States.〔(Hotel Corp. v. Forty-Five Twenty-Five, Inc., 114 So. 2d 357 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1959) . )〕 In the 1970s a suite in the hotel was used by members of the Black Tuna Gang to run their operations.〔http://www.justice.gov/dea/pubs/history/1975-1980.html〕 This is recounted in the 2011 documentary ''Square Grouper'', which follows the burgeoning marijuana-smuggling trade of the mid-to-late 1970s. It was at this time that large amounts of the drug were being shipped to southeastern Florida - the film goes so far as to allege that more than ninety percent of the United States's illicit demand was being met through such channels. In 1978, Stephen Muss bought the Fontainebleau Hotel for $27 million〔(''Fool's Paradise: Players, Poseurs, and the Culture of Excess in South Beach'' By Steven Gaines ) pages 100 -110〕 rescuing it from bankruptcy.〔(South Florida Business Journal: "Born to build - Muss, Soffer progeny develop joint project : Fontainebleau II" by Stephen Van Drake ) March 11, 2002〕 He injected an additional $100 million into the hotel for improvements〔 and hired the Hilton company to manage it.〔 In 2005, the Muss Organization sold the Fontainebleau to Turnberry Associates〔(Sun-Sentinel: "Turnberry Buys Fontainebleau - $150 Million Targeted For Upgrades" by Tom Stieghorst ) January 21, 2005〕 for $165 million.〔 The hotel closed a large part of its property in 2006, though one building remained open to hotel guests, and the furnishings were available for sale. The expanded hotel and its new condominium buildings re-opened in November 2008.〔(Fontainebleau Hotel & Resort - Miami Beach, Florida - www.fontainebleau.com )〕 On December 22, 2008, the Fontainebleau was added to the U.S. National Register of Historic Places.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Fontainebleau Miami Beach」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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