Previewing The Mid-Construction 1 Hotel & Homes

The 1 Hotel & Homes, previously styled as the 1 Hotel & Residences, is debuting their sales center this weekend to coincide with the South Beach Wine & Food Festival. The project, the latest and perhaps most extensive overhaul to date of the constantly-being-overhauled building, is an attempt to remake a rambling concrete barn into anenvironmentally friendly luxury hotel and residences by the LeFrak organization and Starwood Hotels. Curbed was taken on a preview tour of the latest incarnation of one of the giants of South Beach. (few other complexes, save perhaps the Flamingo and maybe the Continuum are quite as large)

  • The building’s residential lobby is complete, and is being used as the entrance to the sales center, which is upstairs. The original barn-like structure is divided in two halves, with the 1 Hotel & Homes taking the north half and the old Roney Palace Condominium remaining in the south half. The David Barton Gym will remain in the center of the building, at the old Roney Plaza Hotel’s original entrance. Within the 1 Hotel & Homes, there will be separate entrance for the residences, shown above, and the hotel, which will include a large hotel lobby on the Collins Avenue frontage. Confusing, no?
  • It looks just like the renderings, doesn’t it? It’s like you’re living in a rendering.
  • An already completed hallway on a residential floor.
  • Some of the residential units are already complete. They will come fully furnished. Residential interiors are by Debora Aguiar Arquitetos.
  • Yes, it is awfully beige.
  • They are knocking out some walls to add more window space, especially in the building’s corners.
  • Here, a hotel room interior is still under construction. The hotel interiors will be by Meyer Davis Studio.
  • The temporary driveway to the 1 Hotel & Homes residential lobby will be redone for the completed project. This was previously the entrance to the old Gansevoort South’s nightclub Louis, in which your drunken Editor was charged an absurd $8 for a bottle of water during one Art Basel.
  • The Collins Avenue facade of the building. Although the northern half is being remade, the LeFrak organization is redoing the facade of the entire building. Here you can see how they are opening up the street level facade into the large hotel lobby.
  • These tall windows look directly out onto Collins Avenue, opening up the building to the street much more than it was previously. The long two story space, with double-height pilons, (not shown) looks like the nave of a cathedral.
  • The hotel lobby is still a gutted shell. Here you can see the former location of the Gansevoort’s massive fish tank. The 1 Hotel’s as-yet-unnamed restaurant will be helmed by Top Chef judge and James Beard winner Tom Colicchio.
  • Extensive work is being done on the exterior of the street facade to upgrade it, enhance pedestrian access, reorient the porte cochere towards the new hotel entrance, etc.
  • The building’s elevated pool and amenity deck is being completely overhauled, with an additional beach club and lower pool areas being added in the currently rather hostile-looking void between the old pool deck and the beach dunes. The boardwalk above the dune is being replaced by a beach walk, as has been done along other stretches of the beach, and the beach club area will provide connectivity with the historic pedestrian walkway to the building’s north.
  • The pool deck is still well under construction.

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