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Update CREATING CITYCENTER MGM MIRAGE’s urbane and sustainable “city within a city” redefines CityCenter is for people who want the Las Vegas they’ve never seen before. Jim Murren, Chairman and CEO, MGM MIRAGE

This is the future of Las Vegas—CityCenter is in an entirely different category. , President and CEO, CityCenter CityCenter is the best example anywhere of a REINVENTING collaborative design process. Art Gensler, Founder and Chairman, Gensler LAS VEGAS Once a generation, Las Vegas reinvents itself. In the Rat Pack era, it embraced midcentury modernism. Then, and remade The Strip as an entertainment resort 12/16/09 destination. Early in this new century, MGM MIRAGE CityCenter Grand Opening envisioned a “city within a city”—a new symbol of Las Vegas that, in the words of CityCenter’s Bobby Baldwin, combines “the vitality of Las Vegas with the experiences tourists seek in great cities around the world.” In 2005, master plan in hand, MGM MIRAGE asked Gensler to join it and make CityCenter a reality. How our team helped reinvent Las Vegas is a case study in .

Contents

The vision 2Making it happen 14 The challenge 4Greening CityCenter 18 Design leadership 6The vision realized 22 Catalyst for ideas 8Project and team information 24 Branding the destination 10

Gensler Design Update CityCenter 1 CityCenter aims to transform Las Vegas as a new symbol at its core. Bobby Baldwin, President and CEO, CityCenter

A CITY WITHIN A CITY THE VISION It took strong design leadership to bring the initial Bobby Baldwin on CityCenter: “This is one of the few CityCenter gives The Strip an urban core—a new plan and building program to a fully realized vision places in the world where we had a completely clean city-scale development that supports a rich, full, 24/7 of an urbane and dynamic place, the heart of a new canvas—and the resources for the best of everything life. Calibrated to a Manhattan density, CityCenter world city of entertainment. possible. There is no such development anywhere in encourages people to cover longer distances using the the country. There’s going to be Las Vegas and there’s three-station PeopleMover and then explore each going to be CityCenter—it’s in an entirely different neighborhood on foot. Of the major projects on The category: the largest, the highest density, and by far the Strip, only CityCenter connects directly to adjacent longest list of amenities. We offer the best entertain- resorts—Monte Carlo and Bellagio—to create a walk- ment and the best accommodations, with unparalleled able, accessible urban district. CityCenter is a whole access to Las Vegas. It’s only eight minutes from the greater than any of its distinctive parts, a world-class airport. Unlike other would-be world destinations, destination for leisure and entertainment. CityCenter combines leading-edge design with an over- all vision, well-conceived and executed. It will stand the test of time.”

original dynamic visionary urban

diverse exciting smart artful

Gensler Design Update CityCenter 2 3 We had a new vision for Las Vegas. I-15 I-15 Jim Murren, Chairman and CEO, MGM MIRAGE Frank Sinatra Drive

Industrial Road Mandalay THE Luxor Excalibur Bellagio Caesars Bay NY– Monte Palace The NY Carlo Mirage

Treasure CityCenter Island Show Tropicana Residential Planet Paris Bally’s Mall Hollywood Sales Pavilion Flamingo As a Harvard Business School case study notes,

CityCenter reflects Jim Murren’s global strategy of Spring Mountain Road MGM Grand Venetian Circus reinventing MGM MIRAGE as a real estate–focused Circus Palazzo East Road A CITY WITHIN company leveraging its development expertise in Wynn concert with partner companies, and expanding its Encore Koval Lane Sahara Avenue A CITY in Las Vegas and around the world. Twain Avenue Twain

McCarran International Airport Flamingo Road Harmon Avenue THE CHALLENGE Avenue Tropicana MGM MIRAGE is no stranger to large-scale develop- Maryland Parkway ment. The company previously led the design and delivery of The Mirage and Bellagio, two projects that redefined The Strip and made the city’s reputation as an entertainment resort destination. CityCenter is exponentially bigger. The world’s largest LEED-registered development, planned from the outset for a December 2009 opening, CityCenter posed unprecedented chal- lenges for its design leaders, MGM MIRAGE and Gensler. 67 acres 18 mil sq ft CityCenter is essentially an urban district, 67 acres CityCenter is a remarkable mix of uses, 18 million (27.1 hectares) or about 12 Manhattan blocks in area. square feet—1.67 million square meters—of high-end This made compact, high-density development possible. residential, hospitality, entertainment, shopping, and Connecting CityCenter by transit with the adjoining recreational buildings and settings. These uses are Bellagio and Monte Carlo properties, also owned by connected not only by a PeopleMover system, but also MGM MIRAGE, creates an even larger setting that by underground circulation and infrastructure, residents, guests, and visitors can experience on foot, minimizing the impact of parking and servicing to without ever having to use cars or cabs to get to ensure a walkable experience. Integrating these their destinations. This is part of what makes CityCenter individually stunning buildings as a rich, compelling a true “city within a city.” whole was one of the main design challenges. I-15 5 years LEED gold Frank Sinatra Drive In late 2004, MGM MIRAGE committed to opening CityCenter is the single largest development in the world CityCenter in December 2009—from concept to comple- to pursue LEED—six LEED Gold projects in one. tion in just five years. Accomplishing this meant leading MGM MIRAGE is committed to sustainability, so design Hotel & Spa multiple teams of architects, , engineers, leadership meant defining the green opportunities specialists, and—with the construction leaders—an army and then creating the framework to ensure that every PeopleMover of contractors and subcontractors. The leadership project and every participant worked to accomplish had to be seamless—MGM MIRAGE and Gensler were them. The Gensler-led sustainability effort addressed Resort & joined at the hip, with the expertise and resources to the entire development, from site clearance and guide a development of unprecedented scope and scale methods of construction to design and materials, and New York–New York Monte Carlo Bellagio to an on-time finish. the operation of the buildings and settings.

CityCenter Residential Hotel & Residences Sales Pavilion Residences

Retail Hotel Tropicana Avenue Tropicana Carlo de Monte Rue CityCenter Place Harmon Avenue

Las Vegas Boulevard

Gensler Design Update CityCenter 4 5 CityCenter is about world-class forming a Construction Design Leadership Team General Management Contractor complementary whole. Tishman Perini Building Bill Smith, President, MGM MIRAGE Design Group Construction Company and

Block A Block B Block C Common areas 10,350,000 sf 1,615,000 sf 5,220,000 sf

ARIA Resort & Hotel & Spa Mandarin Crystals Planning/ DESIGN Casino and Bellagio Employee Garage Oriental, Hotel Retail and Infrastructure/ Las Vegas Entertainment Common Areas

61 stories, 4,004 57 stories, 1,495 suites, restau- 57 stories, 392 26 stories, 2 towers, 669 500,000 sf total Streetscape, LEADERSHIP guestrooms, rants, bar/lounges, health/beauty guestrooms, 400 guestrooms residences, retail center, landscape, In 2004, MGM MIRAGE Design Group was given the of tracking tools and databases, and LEED guidance CityCenter design leadership casino, restau- spa, pool, conference , 227 residences, and suites, adjoining with exclusive wayfinding, assignment of assembling the team of leading architects, and research. Gensler set to work on the most pressing MGM MIRAGE and Gensler formed the CityCenter rants, bar/ landscaped park, connection to restaurants, restaurant, bar/ Crystals; towers flagship stores , interior designers, and specialty consultants that priorities: get the full CityCenter design and implemen- design leadership team to oversee the architects, lounges, Cirque Bellagio Hotel bar, tea lounge, lounge, salon, have rooftop and restaurants branding, would create CityCenter. After traveling around the tation team in place; establish an upfront sustainability designers, engineers, and specialists responsible for du Soleil theater bakery café fitness center pools sales pavilion world, conducting hundreds of interviews, MGM strategy; infuse the initial master plan for CityCenter the different blocks and their projects. The block MIRAGE Design Group realized it would need to with a design vision, strategy, and pragmatic rigor; structure simplified the task of managing this massive, partner with a global design firm that could seamlessly and put methods and systems in place to help simplify 18-million-square-foot development. Design Design Architect Design Design Design Design Design reinforce and complement its in-house capabilities to this complex project and expedite its completion. Architect Architect Architect Architect Architect Architect orchestrate a project of unprecedented size and complexity, to meet a challenging, fast-track schedule. Delivering CityCenter in just five years required a full- At 5:00 p.m. on January 3, 2005, MGM MIRAGE asked throttle, fast-track process. To give CityCenter a more Gensler to join the CityCenter design leadership manageable scale, the design leadership team redefined team as its partner. At 8:00 a.m. on January 4, Gensler CityCenter as three blocks plus common areas—each Architect of Architect of Architect of Architect of Record Architect of Record Architect of senior design-delivery leaders were on the job. with distinct programs and uses. This framework made Record Record Record Record everything that followed simpler, from choosing Drawing talent from 12 different offices across its the project teams to developing building concepts and global network, Gensler mobilized a core group of 50 branding, updating the program, controlling project design professionals at MGM MIRAGE’s CityCenter documentation, providing data to support financial and project office. Among them were specialists for such operational models and analysis, and accelerating 30 Interior 6 Interior Specialty 7 Interior Designers + 5 Interior Designers + Specialty specific assignments as brand strategy, development procurement to offset spiking materials prices. Designers + Designers + Consultants Specialty Consultants Specialty Consultants Consultants Specialty Specialty Consultants Consultants MGM MIRAGE Design Leadership

I-15 Frank Sinatra Drive Block B Bobby Baldwin Bill Smith Sven Van Assche Tony Dennis Bill McBeath Bill Ham Cindy Ortega President and President, Vice President, Executive President, Vice President, SVP, Energy & Block A CEO, CityCenter MGM MIRAGE MGM MIRAGE Vice President, ARIA Resort & Facilities Group Design Group CityCenter Casino Services PeopleMover Gensler Design Leadership Casino/Hotel New York–New York Monte Carlo Bellagio

CityCenter Residential Sales Pavilion Block C Art Gensler Andy Cohen J.F. Finn III Walter Hunt, Jr. Hunter Clayton Bob Stefko Nellie Reid Chairman Executive Project Managing Project Technical Sustainability Block C and Founder Director Executive/ Director/ Director/ Director/ Director/ Tropicana Avenue Tropicana Carlo de Monte Rue CityCenter Place Harmon Avenue CityCenter CityCenter CityCenter CityCenter CityCenter Las Vegas Boulevard

Gensler Design Update CityCenter 6 7 Our first priority at CityCenter was to orchestrate design collaboration. Andy Cohen, Executive Director, Gensler

CATALYST FOR IDEAS Design leadership takes a vision and makes it real. MGM Leading designers usually focus on individual signature MGM MIRAGE’s Bobby Baldwin (below right), Bill Smith MIRAGE saw the need—the opportunity—to reinvent projects. Only rarely are they called on to work together (below left, on left), and Sven Van Assche (above, with Las Vegas as a world-class city, with CityCenter as the to create a city. There are famous instances of forced tie), and Gensler’s Art Gensler (top left) and Andy Cohen catalyst. What was envisioned was much bigger than marriages that produced acrimony and mediocrity. (left, holding drawing) are shown leading the CityCenter anything the company had done before. A master plan To counter this, Gensler’s Andy Cohen proposed a design design in Las Vegas. Over seven weeks, the established its initial scope. Design leadership orches- charrette that would spur collaboration and . invited design architects alternated between Las Vegas trated the rest. Gensler helped MGM MIRAGE identify Invited teams spent time in Las Vegas understanding and their own studios in the US and abroad, spending a leading designers around the world, meet them and the plan and vision for CityCenter. They returned to their total of three weeks working with and learning from see their work, explore the potential for sustainability home cities, came back a second time to collaborate each other. Besides elaborating the vision, this let the in every aspect of the new development, and—once a and learn, left again, and then reconvened to present design leadership team finalize selection of design short list of global talent was identified—engage them to the CityCenter design leadership team and each teams for the CityCenter projects. in a uniquely collaborative, idea-generating introduction other. The energy and synergy the charrette process to CityCenter. generated resulted in a rich and seamless set of overall 7-week schedule design ideas for CityCenter that transcended any one Week 1 Kick-off, Charrette 1 Las Vegas building concept. Week 2 Elaborating the vision Home studios* Week 3 Charrette 2 Las Vegas Week 4 Elaborating the vision Home studios* Gensler led the charrette process including vision Week 5 Charrette 3 Las Vegas briefings, brainstorm sessions, and design discussions, Week 6 Elaborating the vision Home studios* capturing the ideas in play and feeding them back to the design architects and their teams. Week 7 Final presentation Las Vegas * In Asia, Europe, and North America

Gensler Design Update CityCenter 8 9 Las Vegas is ripe for a new paradigm. CityCenter provides it. Sven Van Assche, Vice President, MGM MIRAGE Design Group

Branding the Destination Gensler helped MGM MIRAGE capture its vision of In just five months, MGM MIRAGE and Gensler CityCenter—so big, bold, and brilliant that it will trans- developed strategic positioning for CityCenter and the form Las Vegas for generations. Part of the challenge, majority of its components, all of the collateral material, as CityCenter’s Tony Dennis explains, was to “establish scripting of the film that introduces the development, a hierarchy of brands to differentiate CityCenter’s and the planning and design of the sales pavilion business units and residential properties from each other settings that would introduce prospective owners to and from all non-CityCenter offerings” to create a MGM MIRAGE’s vision of Las Vegas as the world’s complementary whole. To achieve this, the Gensler leading urban entertainment destination. Drawing on brand design team analyzed CityCenter’s market its global experience in planning, positioning, and segments and then developed strategic positioning for designing high-end mixed-use development in a world the residential and retail properties. This included city context, Gensler was able to assemble a team of naming many of the buildings and creating the look brand strategists, designers, and writers to help MGM and feel—words and visual language—to attract MIRAGE create everything needed to bring CityCenter potential buyers and support MGM MIRAGE’s multi- and its unique properties to market. step sales process.

A series of museum-like galleries, like this one for The Sales Pavilion’s settings preview the experience of Vdara, allows people to familiarize themselves with living at each CityCenter property. Shown here is the the different CityCenter properties. Mandarin Oriental, Las Vegas.

Gensler’s design of the CityCenter Residential Sales Pavilion settings immerses prospective owners in MGM MIRAGE’s vision of a new Las Vegas and introduces them to each of its world-class offerings.

Gensler Design Update CityCenter 10 11 DElivering THE BRAND

The Gensler brand design team extended the CityCenter vision to many of its residential properties and to the “connective tissue” of environmental graphics and signage. Services included naming several of the residential properties and designing their identities; creating collateral to support their marketing and sales; and leading the design of landmarks, directional signage, and other environmental cues to make CityCenter easy to navigate and give each of its areas a distinctive character. Even the PeopleMover’s track- way, as a ribbon of light, contributes to this.

Part of the extension of the CityCenter brand was to name the CityCenter projects, design their identities, and create the collateral material to support their marketing and sales.

Brochures like this one for the A series of short films present The renowned Mandarin Oriental Veer Towers express the look CityCenter and its properties. The brand was applied to the CityCenter and feel of the property in a way overview is an important feature hotel’s collateral materials. that’s immediate and compelling of the Sales Pavilion, to introduce to its audience. people to an entirely new way of looking at Las Vegas. The individual The brand identity for Crystals films can be packaged with a viewer and other CityCenter properties for serious buyers. was applied to everything that supported the sales process, even the bottled water.

Gensler designed the bundled wayfinding signage (bottom) to “metal and light” stanchions that provide visual landmarks that are an important part of a can hold signage in some instances program that ranges beyond more and become part of the visitor’s conventional directional and experience in others.

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MAKING IT H APPEN MGM MIRAGE has an enviable track record for effective When the cost of steel and other materials and products design and construction leadership, proven on such went through the roof, Gensler helped MGM MIRAGE landmark developments as The Mirage and Bellagio. accelerate procurement and tap suppliers and manufac- Led by Bill Smith and Sven Van Assche, MGM MIRAGE turers on a global basis. Gensler also set up the Design Group had standards, systems, and controls organizational framework for directing, managing, and in place to generate high-quality, high-performance coordinating the work of all the different project buildings and settings, but never at this scale and with teams. This made it easier for them to document, report, such diversity of projects and participants. When and share information digitally in a consistent and Gensler joined the CityCenter design leadership team, timely way. Gensler continually updated project data to it brought its global design and delivery expertise, support MGM MIRAGE’s program and procurement honed on comparably large mixed-use developments decisions and inform key negotiations with public agen- in , the Gulf, the US, and the UK. Gensler took cies, utilities, and others—efforts that helped CityCenter the process to a whole new . stay on track, despite its complexity.

The leadership team constantly updated the CityCenter CityCenter posed numerous challenges to its builders. plan (below) and program during design and delivery. Gensler expedited the owners’ response to requests The photo (opposite) shows the massive development’s for information, working closely with the different urban scale and complexity. project teams.

Gensler Design Update CityCenter 14 15 CONCEPT TO COMPLETION FIVE YEARS

10/28/05 04/21/06 11/30/06 12/01/08 01/03/05 CityCenter becomes New CityCenter Partnering sessions Gensler is engaged 12/16/09 MGM MIRAGE the largest-ever project office opens with Clark County in design/delivery of CityCenter chooses Gensler as LEED-registered officials begin common-use areas celebrates grand design leadership project opening—designed/ partner delivered in 5 years

11/17/09 01/04/05 08/21/05 11/09/05 09/11/06 12/19/06 FACT: FACT: FACT: FACT: Crystals Retail Gensler’s core design Opening session MGM MIRAGE Brands unveiled for Executive LEED CityCenter used CityCenter used CityCenter used CityCenter used and Entertainment leadership team of 7-week design Board reviews final Vdara Hotel, Veer Manual rolled out 78,000 tons of 1,000,000 cubic yards 32 tower cranes 2.7 million sq. ft. of District complete joins MGM MIRAGE charrette for master plan, Towers, and Harmon structural steel of concrete (enough at the peak glass for the curtain in Las Vegas CityCenter Block C approves CityCenter (enough to build for a sidewalk from of construction walls (enough to 10/14/09 04/27/06 10 Eiffel Towers) LV to NYC and back) enclose 12 Luxors) Veer Towers complete First CityCenter 03/15/05 LEED Summit held First eco-charrette 11/15/05 09/17/09 convened Construction First CityCenter starts on CityCenter 10/15/07 05/14/08 01/12/09 projects certified project office 06/05/06 Building permits The 57-story Vdara Central Plant comes LEED Gold Groundbreaking for issued for all projects is the first CityCenter online, with two Vdara Hotel & Spa tower to top out Cogen units, each at 08/10/09 11/30/05 01/02/07 4.6MW capacity Mandarin Oriental MGM MIRAGE 06/17/06 CityCenter complete approves CityCenter First CityCenter Residential Sales PeopleMover Brand Summit held Pavilion opens 06/17/09 09/01/08 ARIA Resort & 11/15/07 Gensler is engaged Casino complete 04/04/05 08/30/06 02/07/07 MGM MIRAGE and in design/delivery Groundbreaking for 04/12/06 LEED Project Plan LEED team meeting Dubai World form a of CityCenter 05/11/09 Bellagio employee Groundbreaking for addresses new LEED and MEP briefings 50/50 joint venture PeopleMover Vdara Hotel & Spa garage ARIA Resort & Casino requirements begin to develop CityCenter core/shell complete

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Gensler Design Update CityCenter 16 17 We aimed to create a vibrant destination to demonstrate that a community can be both beautiful and sustainable. Cindy Ortega, Senior Vice President, Energy and Environmental Services, MGM MIRAGE

GREENING CITYCENTER CITYCENTER CityCenter is the world’s largest LEED development. The LEED team briefed every project’s consultants— How do you certify six LEED Gold projects at once? It 700 people in all—on LEED goals, design credits, and takes a motivated client and a committed, collaborative submittals. To set a high sustainability baseline, team. In March 2005, MGM MIRAGE and Gensler Gensler provided green “master” specifications for all convened an eco-charrette with the construction leader- of the projects; convened annual LEED summits with ship and the ARIA design team. The charrette confirmed the experts; held weekly calls to resolve problems; and IS THE goals, explored options, and created the road map to helped fine-tune the process with the US Green move CityCenter from concept to final LEED certifica- Building Council (USGBC). This spirit of collaboration tion. Gensler then assembled a 40-person LEED team— led to new strategies and innovative solutions. And it including sustainability experts for every project—to paid off in LEED Gold—as MGM MIRAGE’s Cindy ensure that CityCenter met its ambitious goals. Ortega notes, “We achieved every design certification point we went for.” WORLD S How we did it 1 2 3 Setting the stage for LEED. Gensler Holding the eco-. The Registering with USGBC. Gensler helps MGM MIRAGE assemble a two eco-charrettes make the case registers the CityCenter campus 40-person LEED team of experts and for sustainability, explore strategies, with the US Green Building Council LARGEST develops LEED tools and procedures, define LEED goals, get contractor (USGBC), making it the largest including green master specs. buy-in, and provide initial cost/ single project ever registered. benefit analysis.

4 5 6 LEED Analyzing LEED strategies. Developing LEED manuals. With Presenting the LEED project plan. After analyzing potential LEED buy-in from the entire CityCenter The LEED team meets with USGBC credits, the 40-person LEED team team, the LEED team develops LEED to discuss CityCenter’s unique selects the most appropriate for manuals outlining detailed compli- challenges and gain agreement on CityCenter and records them in a ance strategies for all LEED credits the logistics of its complex certifi- LEED scorecard. pursued. cation process.

DEVELOPMENT The CityCenter eco-charrettes, held in Las Vegas and led by Gensler’s Nellie Reid and Jim Oswald, established goals for sustainability in design, construction, and operations, and created a framework for achieving LEED 7 8 9 Gold certification for the CityCenter projects. Preparing the LEED design phase Preparing the LEED construction Achieving LEED Gold certifica- submittal. The LEED team works phase submittal. Working with the tions. Green Building Certification with each project’s architect of general contractor and CM, the Institute (GBCI) reviews and record (AOR) to assemble the LEED LEED team assembles the construc- certifies each submitted LEED- design phase submittal to obtain tion phase submittal to obtain registered project, resulting in six design credits. construction credits. LEED Gold certifications.

Gensler Design Update CityCenter 18 19 Results that matter—LEED GOLD

From the start, CityCenter was envisioned as a trans- MGM MIRAGE and Gensler agreed on the sustainable formative development. MGM MIRAGE viewed sustain- strategies for CityCenter at the eco-charrette, and then ability as a crucial way for Las Vegas to meet the set them out as performance criteria for every project. challenges of a new century. This reflects a widely shared The goals were to optimize energy performance, reduce concern with global warming and resource shortages, water use, and improve indoor air quality. Construction as well as a consumer preference for environmentally and demolition waste was almost entirely diverted safe, healthy settings. MGM MIRAGE also saw sustain- from landfill, and construction waste was minimized. ability as a huge source of added value for CityCenter Among the measures are high- and its owners, guests, and visitors. As part of the design performance façades with low-emittance insulating leadership team, Gensler worked closely with the glass and sunshades, cool roofs, and the pervasive company and its construction partners to achieve sus- use of materials with locally sourced and/or recycled tainability at CityCenter in every aspect of its develop- content. Achieving LEED Gold at CityCenter was by ment: demolition, design, construction, and operations. design—and Gensler helped make it happen.

Added cost to achieve LEED Gold: An important development in urban sustainability is WALKABLE URBANISM the recognition that higher-density development served by transit can dramatically reduce traffic congestion and pollution by encouraging people to leave their cars behind and walk. The Gensler-designed introduced this concept to the city.

The size and density of a typical district in Manhattan, CityCenter provides transit access to its major destin- % ations. This allows people to experience the entire area 5 on foot, including the adjoining Bellagio and Monte Carlo properties, without having to use taxis or their own The US Green Building Council launched the Energy savings due to LEED Gold: cars. This sustainable pattern is the future of Las Vegas. Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) rating system in 2000. Six CityCenter projects are LEED Gold-certified, a remarkable achievement that reflects an unwavering commit- ment to sustainability. >30 %

Reuse of demolition and construction waste: Wood products in ARIA and Crystals that are Forest Stewardship Council certified:

Reduction in water use for landscaping:

Reduction in building potable water use: 33 % 60 % 87 % 94 % Gensler Design Update CityCenter 20 21 To open CityCenter in December 2009, as we predicted MGM MIRAGE teamed with Gensler to lead seven world- in 2004, is a remarkable feat. class architects, 43 interior designers, and over 200 Jim Murren, Chairman and CEO, MGM MIRAGE consultants to deliver this game-changing development. Together with our esteemed MGM MIRAGE colleagues, we celebrate its opening. CityCenter’s completion achieves Jim Murren and Bobby Baldwin’s vision of a new and urbane THE VISION Las Vegas, reinvented for the 21st century. REALIZED

Gensler Design Update CityCenter 22 23 Design (Crystals): Rockwell Group; Public Spaces Block B: (Veer): Murphy/Jahn; Residential Units (Veer): Dianna Wong; Retail: Deborah Berke; Consultants: A TEAM • Vdara Hotel & Spa—57-story hotel with 1,495 hotel Acoustical Design: Shen Milsom & Wilke; ADA: residences (534–1,623 sq ft) Access by Design; Audio Visual: Shen Milsom & Wilke / John Lyons; Commissioning: Glumac; Curtain Wall Design Architect: Rafael Viñoly Architects; Architect (Harmon): Yolles; Curtain Wall (Mandarin): Front / OF THOUSANDS (Bellagio Employee Garage): HKS; Architect of Record: ALT; Door Hardware: David Sissom; Exterior Energy: Leo A. Daly; Associate Architect (Fire Station): Winston Flack & Kurtz; Fire–Life Safety–Code: RJA; Geotechnical: Henderson Architects; Associate Architect (Residential ; Acoustical Design: Shen Milsom & Wilke; Units): Hamilton Anderson; Interior Designers: Hotel Civil Engineering: Lochsa Engineering; Curtain Wall DESIGNED Tower: BBGM; Back of House: Leo A. Daly; Fitness (Veer): Werner Sobek / Israel Berger / ALT; Curtain Center: Dumbell Man Fitness Equipment; Bar Vdara: Wall (Retail): Israel Berger; Façade (Veer): Israel Berger; Image Credits: Therese Virserius Design; Retail: Karim Rashid; Spa– Food Service: Romano Gatland; Fountains and Salon: Robert D. Henry Architects; Silk Road: Karim Water Features: WET Design; IT–Telecom: Flack & Kurtz; Eddie Berman: page 12 top left and middle right; page AND DELIVERED Rashid; Engineering Consultants: Acoustical Design: Kitchen–Food Service: Romano Gatland; Landscape 16 top second from right PMK; Accessibility: Equal Access / Access by Design; (Harmon): Martha Schwartz; Landscape (Mandarin): Mike Brown: page 15; pages 16-17 bottom (all); page Audio-Visual: Network / PMK; Civil Engineering: Hargreaves Associates; Landscape (Crystals): Dirt; 17 top second from left Lochsa; Commissioning: Glumac; Curtain Wall Design: Landscape (Veer): Office of James Burnett / Martha Nick M Do/Photodisc/Getty Images: page 20 CITYCENTER Curtain Wall Design & Consulting; Energy Modeling: Schwartz; LEED Consultant: The Fore Group; far right Syska Hennessy; Environmental–Air Quality: TRC; Fire–Life Safety–Code: RJA; Lighting (Harmon): Focus / Chris Florin/Gensler: page 12 bottom right Environmental: PBS&J; Fire–Life Safety–Code: RJA; Illuminating Concepts; Lighting (Mandarin): Isometrix / John Foxx/Stockbyte/Getty Images: inside front cover Food Service: JEM / Romano Gatland; Geotechnical: Illuminating Concepts; Lighting Exterior (Veer): (fireworks) Terracon Consulting Engineers; Hardware: Assa AIK / Illuminating Concepts; Lighting (Veer): L-Plan / Gensler: page 6 bottom row (all); page 8; page 12 Abloy; IT–Telecom: Network; Wireless Reinforcement Illuminating Concepts; Lighting (Crystals): Focus; bottom left (all 6); page 13 left (all 4) and bottom Design CityCenter Project Teams: Project: Flack & Kurtz; Landscape Architect: Melendrez; MEP Engineering: Flack & Kurtz; OSHA (Crystals): Cal right; page 14 bottom left; page 16 top second and LEED Consultant: Viridian / Steven Winter; Lighting Nev / Ranch; Parking: Rich / WPM; Pool–Fountain: third from left; page 18; page 21 (all) Leadership Block A: Design: Cline Bettridge Bernstein; MEP Engineer: STO Design Group; Spa–Salon (Harmon): S. Russell Mark Gibson/Digital Vision/Getty Images: page 20 Cosentini Associates; MEP (Bellagio Employee Garage): Groves; Security: Flack & Kurtz; Signage (Mandarin): middle left Team: • ARIA Resort & Casino—61-story tower and 54-story Cosentini / TJK; MEP (Fire Station): TJK; Pool–Spa Poulin & Morris; Signage Interior (Crystals): Gensler; Ryan Gobuty/Gensler: page 13 top right tower, with 4,004 guestrooms total, including Engineering: STO Design Group; Pool Design: Kinsella; Signage Interior (Veer): Hunt Design; Spa (Harmon): Samuel Guerrero/Gensler: page 17 top far left, top MGM MIRAGE and Gensler 568 suites; Quality Assurance: Capri; Security: PMK; Signage Richardson Sadeki; Spa–Salon (Mandarin): Tihany middle (both), and top far right Scope & Team information • 595,946 sq ft theater; (Bellagio Employee Garage): HKS; Signage: Two Twelve Design / Deckleman; Structural Engineering: Halcrow Shamus Halkowich/Gensler: page 9 top right and • 150,000 sq ft casino, 37,668 sq ft of retail, 219,401 Harakawa; Structural Engineering (Harmon): Lockwood Yolles; Sustainability (Harmon, Crystals, Veer): Buro middle left sq ft of restaurants, 42,520 sq ft of bars/lounges Andrews & Newman; Structural Engineering: DeSimone; Happold; Sustainability (Mandarin): Atelier Ten; Vertical Imagewerks/Getty Images: page 20 far left Construction Traffic: Kimley-Horn; Vertical Transportation: Lerch Transportation: Lerch Bates; Waste Management: Raimund Koch/Photonica/Getty Images: inside front Design Architect: Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects; Architect ALG; Illuminating Concepts; Domingo Gonzalez; Bates; Wind Engineering: RWDI; Window Washing: Cini Little; Wind Engineering: RWDI; Window Washing: cover (skyline) Management: of Record: HKS; Interior Designers: Hotel Tower: MGM Engineering Consultants: Jaffee Holden; ADA– Entek Engineering ENTEK Engineering, PLLC Siegfried Layda/The Image Bank/Getty Images: page 5 MIRAGE Design Group / BBGM; Sirio Ristorante: Accessibility: Access by Design; Audio Visual: PMK; middle Tishman Construction Tihany Design; Union: Tihany Design; Salon Prive: Peter Acoustical Design: PMK; Baggage Handling: Lerch Bates; MGM MIRAGE: page 2; page 4; page 6 top row (all); Marino Architect; Sage: Jacques Garcia / Hamilton Commissioning: TestMarc; County Coordination: R.D. Block C: Project-wide elements: page 9 bottom (both); page 14 bottom right; page Anderson; Back of House: McKee & Carman Design Weber & Assoc.; Curtain Wall Design: Israel Berger; Door 16 top far left Group / Hamilton Anderson; The Buffet: Lewis. Hardware: Consolidated; Fire–Life Safety–Code: RJA; • Mandarin Oriental, Las Vegas—45-story hotel/ • PeopleMover track-way and 3 stations Jessica Peterson/Getty Images: page 20 middle right General Tsurumaki.Lewis; Pool Bar: Graft LLC; Main Casino: Food Service: Romano Gatland / Culinary Design + residence tower (1,223,192 sq ft) with 392 guest- • Below-grade parking, servicing, circulation Michael Rubottom: page 9 top left Remedios Siembieda; Club Lounge: Franklin Studios; Fixture; Fountains–Waterfeatures: WET Design; MEP: rooms, including 89 suites, and 227 residences • Streets and street furniture Jon Schmidt/MGM MIRAGE: cover; pages 22-23 Contractor: Café Vettro: Bentel & Bentel; Convention Center: Flack & Kurtz; MEP (Sinatra Garage): Aguirre Corp; (1,068–3,856 sq ft); • Wayfinding landmark elements Veer Incorporated: page 3 (all) Remedios Siembieda; Jean Philippe Patisserie: NODA / Kitchen–Food Service: Romano Gatland; Landscape: • The Harmon Hotel—26-story hotel (635,897 sq ft) • Directional signage and graphics Michael Weber: page 10; page 11 (both); page 16 top Perini Building Company Westar Architects; Blossom: studioadesign; Lemongrass: Field Operations; LEED: Green Building Services; Parking: with 400 guestrooms, including 102 suites; • Residential Sales and Marketing Pavilion far right AvroKo; The Roasted Bean: Jacques Garcia; Sweet Chill: Walter P. Moore; Peer Review–Structural: Saiful/Bouquet; • Crystals Retail and Entertainment District— Karim Rashid; Breeze Cafe: Graft LLC; Jean Georges Peer Review–MEP: SH ; Pool Equipment: (752,442 sq ft) with 62 retail spaces and 12 food Design Architect: Gensler; Conceptual Master Plan: Steakhouse: Dupoux Design; Bar Moderno: Jacques Aquatic Design; Roofing–Waterproofing: D7 Consulting; and beverage spaces, and PeopleMover station; Ehrenkrantz Eckstut & Kuhn; Architect of Record: Gensler is a leading architecture, design, planning, Garcia; The Crossings: McKee & Carman; Executive Security: PMK; Security–Construction Revisions: • Veer Towers—Two 37-story residence towers Gensler; Executive LEED Consultant: CTG Energetics; and consulting firm with offices in the Americas, Offices: Brayton Hughes; Carta Privada: Peter Marino Con Tech; Signage: Selbert Perkins / Hunt / Gensler; (857,886 sq ft total) with 335 residences each Commissioning: SKG; Dewatering: PBS&J; Civil Asia, Europe, and the Middle East. Gensler Design Architect; BARMASA / Shaboo: Richard Bloch Architect; Structural Engineering: Thornton-Tomasetti; Structural (486–3,290 sq ft) Engineering: Lochsa; Fire–Life Safety–Code: RJA; Update is a publication announcing new projects of View Bar: Richardson Sadeki; Retail Mall: Gabellini (Sinatra Garage): Jessen Wright / Walter P. Moore; Geotechnical: Owens; Irrigation and Landscape: interest. It is produced by Gensler Publications. Sheppard; Haze Nightclub: ICRAVE; Poker Room: Jacques Telecommunications: Flack & Kurtz; Theater: Auerbach; Design Architect (Mandarin Oriental): Kohn Pederson Office of James Burnett; OSHA: Cal-Nev; Parking: ©2009 Gensler. Garcia; Papillon: Nakaoka/Roberts; Radiance: Peter Vertical Transportation: Lerch Bates; Vibration Planner: Fox; Design Architect (The Harmon Hotel): Foster + KaKu; Peer Review–Lighting: Illuminating Concepts; Marino Architects; Salon Prive: Peter Marino Architect; Tacet; Waterscape: Aquatic Design; Wind Engineering: Partners; Design Architect (Veer Towers): Murphy/Jahn; Peer Review–MEP: SH Nevada; Peer Review– The Spa at ARIA: SUPERPOTATO / Flewellyn & Moody; RWDI; Window Washing: Citadel Design Architect (Crystals): Studio Structural: Saiful/Bouquet; PeopleMover System: Sky Villas–Presidential Suites: Peter Marino Architect; with Rockwell Group; Architect of Record: Adamson Doppelmayr; PeopleMover Consultant: Lea & Elliott; Julian Serrano: Gente de Valor; Gold Lounge: CLEO Associates Architects; Associate Architect: Hamilton Permitting: Hyde Consulting; Quality Assurance: Design; American Fish: SLDesign LLC; Skybox: Remedios Anderson; Interior Designers: Back of House: Hamilton Capri; Risk Management: FM Global; Soils: GeoDesign; By using paper stock that contains 100% post- Siemedia; The Deuce: Franklin Studios; City Bar: Anderson; Guestrooms (Harmon): Munge Leung; Sustainability: KMI Associates / Gensler; Traffic: consumer recycled fiber, the following savings to Remedios Siembieda; Liquid: Graft LLC; Spin: Peter Hotel Guestrooms (Mandarin): Tihany Design; Hotel Kimley-Horn; Fountains–Waterfeatures: WET Design; our natural resources have been realized. Marino Architect; Lighting Designers: Fisher Marantz Podium (Harmon): SADI; Residential (Mandarin): Wayfinding–Signage: Gensler; Wind Testing: RWDI Stone; Derek Porter; Horton Lees Brogden; Brandston Page and Steele / Tihany Design / Thomas Schoos 57 fully grown trees Partnership; HE Banks; L’Observatoire International; Design / Kay Lang + Associates (Mandarin); Interior 1,587 lbs. of reduced landfill 18 million BTUs of energy 26,147 gallons of water 5,429 lbs. of reduced greenhouse gas

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