Vladislav Doronin says three penthouses at his Aman-branded project have sold for more than $325 million, despite a sluggish market and an oversupply of luxury condos By Katherine Clarke | June 13, 2019 11:35 a.m. ET Billionaire Vladislav Doronin already owns a full-floor apartment overlooking Central Park at the Time Warner Center. Nonetheless, he has got his eye […]
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Telegraph Ultratravel: Aman on a mission: Aman Resorts CEO Vladislav Doronin on life, luxury and his plans for Aman New York
By Nicole Mowbray | 20 MARCH 2019 Vladislav Doronin is a very busy man. It takes five months of planning before he can find 30 minutes in his diary for our meeting in London, and even then it is moved three further times, including on the day. But then, 56-year-old Russian billionaire ‘Vlad’ is a man wearing many […]
British GQ: Vladislav Doronin on his worldwide portfolio of one-of-a-kind resorts
BY BILL PRINCE, Deputy Editor, British GQ Sunday 13 January 2019 Vladislav Doronin likes to build things. Since founding his development company, Capital Group, in 1991, the Russian-born businessman has completed no fewer than 71 high-end residential and commercial projects, including Moscow’s Oko Tower – at 354 metres, the third-tallest skyscraper in Europe – and Missoni Baia, […]
Bangkok Post: Lap of luxury
‘Blown away’ by his first encounter with Amanpuri in Phuket, Vladislav Doronin later acquired the storied luxury resort business and is extending the brand into urban retreats and skin care WRITER: NIANNE-LYNN HENDRICKS Vladislav Doronin is no stranger to the business world. The chairman and CEO of OKO Group, a US-based real estate company, and founder of Capital […]
Dezeen: “Zaha’s vision allowed me to have all I wanted,” says Vladislav Doronin, client of Hadid’s only house
By Amy Frearson Zaha Hadid was “an architectural genius” says Vladislav Doronin, the client behind the only house the late Iraqi-British architect ever built. In an exclusive interview for Dezeen, the businessman reveals how he was determined to work with Hadid on his forest home near Moscow, even though the architect had never built a private residence […]
Architectural Digest: Zaha Hadid’s Only Private Residential Home Is Now Completed
The $140 million project is half submerged into the ground and located in the heart of a Russian forest TEXT BY NICK MAFI Posted April 5, 2018 For decades, Zaha Hadid dazzled the world with striking, over-the-top buildings that were designed to be noticed. Her elegantly flamboyant creations seemed to stand out more as a force of […]
Financial Times: How Zaha Hadid’s spaceship house landed in a Russian forest
The Capital Hill Residence is the only private house the late architect realised in her lifetime By Edwin Heathcote The description of any vaguely futuristic architecture as sci-fi is overused, but occasionally there is just no other way to describe it. Zaha Hadid, who died two years ago, was the paragon of this approach to construction as […]
Miami Herald: Real estate developers ran out of waterfront property. Now they might want to buy yours
By Rene Rodriguez | March 06, 2018 07:00 AM OKO Group spent a year negotiating individual sales of all of the 61 units on the property, paying a total of $48 million to buy the 11-story building outright in 2016. Soon, they will tear it down. With vacant waterfront property in short supply throughout Miami-Dade County, real […]
Robb Report: Is the Traditional Hotel Chain Dead? Three industry titans weigh in
BY AMY LOUISE BAILEY ON FEBRUARY 19, 2018 Way up in the heavens of the luxury hotel game is Aman, the innovative chain that has been setting a new tone in travel since its first property opened in Thailand in 1988. The brand’s die-hard fans follow it around the globe, from Cambodia to the Caribbean, […]
NEWS: FT’s How To Spend It: Vladislav Doronin’s perfect weekend in Miami
The founder of Capital Group counts Aman and the forthcoming Missoni Baia in Miami among his hospitality and residential holdings NOVEMBER 24 2017 / CHRISTINA OHLY EVANS “Miami is such a dynamic place and there is always something to do, from tennis tournaments to Art Basel to the annual boat show. But what I love most is the weather: the […]