A new and final stage arises at Tropicana when Víctor de Correa sells his stake in the business and starts working as a maitre d'hotel at the Sans Souci cabaret. The new owner, Martin Fox, established Tropicals Night Club SA, and appointed as president and chief representative of business his old partner Echemendía, who did not stay for a long time because of his implications with illegal gambling.
This did not prevent that Martin, called El Guajiro, began to develop his skills and interests, taking into account the possibilities of the location and its enviable vegetation. He quickly got in touch with the architect Max Borges Jr. to execute a project of the cabaret, preserving and if possible increase the existing natural wealth.
The first change was the entrance to the old house with small modern bows, serial, and the installation at the entrance to the famous ballerina. With this image the first propaganda folding were created to be used as a symbol for a whole time.
This solution is very successful and serves as a guideline for the future Arcos de Cristal, always starting from the conservation of the grove. The project was so bold that architects in some countries came to Cuba to witness the formwork stripping of the arches, because more than one had predicted that they would fall. Due to its bold design and achieved architecture it received the Grand Prix National Association of Architects, 1953.
A new space where the original Tropicana was located begins to be built, this time composed of spacious terraced where slender palms, mamoncillos trees and all the existing vegetation, and crowned by a stage topped by a lattice of steel.
In the background, right next to the other room, a spacious bar with twelve tables was installed, like the Arcos de Cristal, where you could comfortably enjoy the show. All subsequent walls were covered with mirrors, whose reflection gave the impression of being in an endless place. This room had two main features: to be the world's largest cabaret and the only one of this kind air opened. Therefore it was called, since its project, «A paradise under the stars», with which it is internationally known.
