Articles Tagged with ''Las Vegas''

Whether the still unopened Harmon Hotel inside the CityCenter resort in Las Vegas is demolished or remains an expensive billboard is now part of yet one more legal battle stemming from the struggling mega-resort’s many financial woes.

A 119,165-square-foot, five-story complex that includes classrooms, labs, faculty offices, departmental suites, and radio and television broadcasting facilities.

Even before the economy tanked, few would have called the scope of CityCenter anything less than incredibly ambitious.

People showSpecSheet(); People Owner MGM Resorts International/Infinity World Architect Murphy/Jahn 35 East Wacker Dr., Suite 300 Chicago, IL 60601 P: 312-427-7300 F: 312-332-0274 Architect of record AAI ARCHITECTS, INC. Personnel in architect's firm who should receive special credit: William Bradley OAA, MRAIC – Partner David Jansen AIA, OAA, MRAIC, LEED AP – Partner Martin Dolan OAA, MRAIC, LEED AP – Project Architect Engineers Structural: Halcrow Yolles Telecommunications & Security: WSP Flack + Kurtz – MEP Consultants Sustainability / LEED: The Fore Group Lighting: L-Plan Acoustical: Shen Milsom Wilke Pool: STO Design Audio Visual: Shen Milsom Wilke Hardware: Door + Hardware

Photo © Patrick O’Neill/Steinkamp Photography People showSpecSheet(); People Owner MGM Resorts International/Infinity World Architect Gensler 3883 Howard Hughes Pkwy., Suite 650 Las Vegas, NV 89169 P: 702.893.2800 F. 702.893.2805 Personnel in architect's firm who should receive special credit: J.F. Finn AIA LEED AP, Principal in Charge Kap Malik AIA, Principal Design Director Timothy Sullivan, Project Manager Bart Tucker LEED AP, Project Designer Chris Musich, Technical Leader Bill Hebinck LEED AP, Architect Nupur Sinha LEED AP, Designer Sanjeev Tankha LEED AP, Designer Claude Kamar LEED AP, Architect Tom Baty, Designer Alex Webb LEED AP, Designer Bert Tietje, Job Captain Stuart Themudo,

People showSpecSheet(); People Owner MGM Resorts International/Infinity World Architect Studio Daniel Libeskind 2 Rector Street, New York, NY 10006 P: 212-497-9100 F: 212-285-2130 Personnel in architect's firm who should receive special credit: Daniel Libeskind, Owner Carla Swickerath, Principal Gerhard Brun, Associate David Stockwell, Associate Johan van Lierop, Associate Noah Wadden, Steven Haardt, Sean Ellis, William Hunter, Taek Kim, Kiwoo Park Architect of record Adamson Associates International (AAI) Architects, Inc. Personnel in architect's firm who should receive special credit: David Jansen, President Bill Bradley, Partner Ross Carter-Wingrove, Project Manager Executive architect Gensler of Nevada Engineers Structural: Halcrow Yolles MEPT: WSP Flack

Latter-Day Las Vegas On first seeing Las Vegas in 1965, I felt a shiver. Was it hate or love? The sprawling city, its polychrome signs etched against desert and so-blue sky, engendered both emotions. And the Strip, apotheosis of neon, archetype of suburban commerce, cried out to be studied. So in 1968, we launched our Learning from Las Vegas studio at Yale University [published in 1972 as Learning from Las Vegas, by Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown, and Steven Izenour]. In 1997, when we revisited the city, Steven Wynn, the Las Vegas casino and resort developer, was removing neon, replacing

People showSpecSheet(); People Owner MGM Resorts International/Infinity World Architect Kohn Pederson Fox Associates 111 W. 57th St. New York, NY 10019 P: 212 977 6500 F: 1 212 956 2526 Personnel in architect's firm who should receive special credit: Paul Katz, FAIA HKIA, Managing Principal William Pedersen, FAIA FAAR, Design Principal Ko Makabe, Senior Designer Christopher Stoddard, AIA, Project Manager Architect of record Adamson Associates International Architects, Inc. 401 Wellington St. W., 3rd Floor, Toronto, Ontario, Canada P: 416-967-1500 Personnel in architect's firm who should receive special credit: David Jansen, AIA, RA, Partner in Charge Bill Bradley, Project Architect Maria

Vegas’s newest high-stakes bet, the $8.5 billion CityCenter, has had a bumpy ride, with the deaths of six construction workers, a lawsuit between development partners over rising costs that was later dropped, and funding woes brought on by the global credit crisis.