In this movie Dezeen produced for the AHEAD Americas hospitality awards, jury members reveal that the way a hotel relates to its location was a crucial factor in choosing the winning projects.

The Faena Miami Beach complex was the biggest winner of the inaugural AHEAD Americas awards, which took place in Miami this week.

The Faena Hotel at the heart of the development was named The Americas Hotel Design of the Year and also won the Resort Hotel category, while the OMA-designed Faena Forum cultural centre won the Event Spaces category.

Matoula Karagiannis, vice president of design at Sydell Group, says that the way the Faena captured the glamorous art deco history of Miami impressed the jury.

"The Hotel Faena harkens back to a time when all those hotels were built in the 1920s on Miami Beach," she says in the movie, which Dezeen filmed at the Nomad Hotel in New York, where the judging took place.
"There was a certain sense of theatre and glamour. People went to Miami to stay in those hotels and the Hotel Faena has captured that."

Fellow jury member Aliya Khan, vice president of global design strategies at Marriott International, says that the way that a hotel responds to its context came up repeatedly during the judging process.

"Context is what really grounds design and I think really gives good design its authenticity," she explains. "Where are you" What is the history of the place""

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