CityCenter Las Vegas / Pelli, Libeskind, KPF, Jahn, Viñoly

MGM Mirage, one of the biggest leisure and tourism companies in the world, is developing a spectacular project in Las Vegas city, concretely in Las Vegas Strip area.

It is a huge construction project, biggest in the USA history carried out with private funds. It will be raised in a 307,000 square meter area and, aproximately, it will cost 7,000 million dolar. There will be different stages in the construction proccess.

The first stage will consist of two towers aproximately 180 meters high, designed by Cesar Pelli´s studio. 4,100 hotel rooms and a 14,000 square meter casino will be set in these buildings. A convencion center with 50,000 sq. m., a 2,000 seat theater, a 13 floor high garage and an underground garage will also be part of the complex in some other smaller buildings.

This stage is running now and it will be finished in 2009 according to the timeplan.

In the second stage, a 178 m high tower will house a aparthotel with 1,050 units (Vdara CondoHotel). The design of this building has been ordered to Rafael Viñoly, who has created a building with a characterisic curved floor plan, bow shaped.

2 slightly leaned towers will also be built, Veer Towers, designed by the arquitect Helmut Jahn. They will be around 155 m high and they will have a residential use, apartments.

In the third stage a hotel run by Mandarin Oriental Resort Company will be constructed. The building, 173 m high, will have as themain feature a zig-zag floor plan. It will house 400 rooms, with 90 of them being luxury suits. William Pedersen is the designer.

In this stage, apart from a “luxury small shops” mall designed by Libeskind and Rockwell Group, the Hotel Lifestyle will be built (Foster and Partners). It will stand outona great location on one of the corners of the plot with the oval floor plan.

After finishing the third stage, four more apartment towers, whose design and height have not yet been confirmed , can be added to the complex.