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.
People showSpecSheet(); People Owner MGM Resorts International/Infinity World Architect RV Architecture, LLC 50 Vandam Street New York, NY 10013 Personnel in architect's firm who should receive special credit: Rafael Viñoly, FAIA, JIA, SCA Jay D. Bargmann, AIA, NCARB Harold Park, AIA, LEED AP Chan-Li Lin, AIA, LEED AP Jiwoo Park, AIA Architect of record Leo A. Daly Personnel in architect's firm who should receive special credit: Leo A. Daly Tom Czech Lamberto Smigliani John Avery Reggie Smith Ysidro Baron Chuck Dixon Associate architect Hamilton Anderson Associates Engineers Structural: DeSimone Consulting Engineers Civil: Lochsa Engineering, LLC Mechanical/Electrical: Cosentini Associates Geotechnical: Terracon
People showSpecSheet(); People Owner MGM Resorts International/Infinity World Architect Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects 1056 Chapel Street New Haven, CT 06511 P: 203.777.2515 F: 203.787.2856 Personnel in architect's firm who should receive special credit: Cesar Pelli, FAIA, JIA, RIBA, Senior Principal/Senior Design Principal Fred Clarke, FAIA, JIA, RIBA, Senior Principal/Senior Design Principal Gregg Jones, AIA, LEED AP, Principal/Design Team Leader Rob Narracci, RA, Senior Associate/Project Manager Peter Follett, RA, AIA, RIBA, Senior Associate/Project Manager Andrew Nyhart, RA, Senior Associate/Project Manager Leonard Rehkop, Associate/Project Manager Architect of record HKS Architects, Inc. Engineers Structural: Thorton Tomasetti MEP: Flack + Kurtz Civil: Lochsa Engineering,
As one more sign of the decline of the West and its dominance in things ultra-chic, Milanese fashion designer Giorgio Armani chose the Burj Khalifa tower in Dubai for the setting of his touted debut in the hotel business.
From a distance, the half-mile-high Burj Khalifa in Dubai tapers to a near imperceptible spire like a mirage along the windswept desert coast of the Persian Gulf.
Completion Date: April 2009 Owner: Toraya Program: A new building for the Japanese pastry maker Toraya, which has occupied the site for approximately 500 years. The structure—housing a café, a gallery, offices, and the pastry workshop—is connected by a central garden to a small storage house from the Edo Period, for a total of 12,000 square feet. Design concept and solution: The architects wanted the café and garden-side terrace to feel like one big indoor-outdoor space, open and relaxing. They united the café and terrace with a gently sloping ceiling of narrow wood ribs, which extends into an awning over the
Using a process of renovation through subtraction, the New York—based firm Lynch / Eisinger / Design (L/E/D) created a multitenant commercial building in part by taking away pieces of an old industrial complex.
Completion Date: October 2009 Owner: Scottish Widows Program: A mixed-use revitalization of three buildings on a London block, anchored by two office buildings for the investment firm Scottish Widows. At 58,534 square feet, the New Bond Street office consists of five stories added to existing street-level retail space. The five-story St George Street office contributes another 62,926 square feet. Sandwiched between the offices, on Maddox Street, is a luxury residential building with ground-floor retail space; Eric Parry Architects refurbished the 18 apartments above. The development also includes a central courtyard shared by the three buildings. Design concept and solution: Retaining