Rockwell Architecture, Planning and Design, P.C. 5 Union Square West New York, New York 10003 tel 212-463-0334 fax 212-463-0335 Crystals at CityCenter Design Fact Sheet Use: Retail, Entertainment, Dining Location: Crystals is part of the 67-acre mixed-use CityCenter development along the Las Vegas Strip between Bellagio and Monte Carlo resorts. Size: 120,000 SF (Rockwell Group’s scope); 500,000 (overall) Client: MGM MIRAGE and Infinity World Development Corp Background: Rockwell Group is designing the interior architecture for Crystals, the central retail, entertainment and dining district of the LEED-Gold CityCenter in Las Vegas, a joint venture between MGM MIRAGE and Infinity World Development Corp, a subsidiary of Dubai World. Crystals will be the connective core of the hotels, resorts and residences that make up this new groundbreaking metropolis. Rockwell Group joins a world-renowned group of architects who have contributed to this monumental urban project, including Daniel Libeskind, Cesar Pelli, Rafael Viñoly, Norman Foster and Helmut Jahn. Design Concept: Rockwell Group envisioned Crystals as an abstracted 21st century park to fit into this new larger-than-life urban center in Las Vegas. The organic, curvilinear vocabulary of the interior architecture reinvents and re-imagines the idea of the central urban park as a social gathering place for shopping and dining. Design Highlights: Interpretations and abstractions of nature animate the scenery that complements the sharp angles of Studio Daniel Libeskind’s crystalline exterior, with a glowing three-story wooden sculpture inspired by a modern tree house. Floor-to-ceiling columns and trellises above are abundant with hanging plants as a reinterpretation of a gazebo, and a dynamic flower carpet at the node of the three promenades in Crystals that transforms with the seasons. Natural and tactile materials abound in response to CityCenter’s overall LEED Gold aspirations, including the flowing 24-foot grand bamboo stair, inspired by Rome’s Spanish steps. LEED Gold Details: Beyond the actual design, however, was the effort to use materials, techniques and processes that were in keeping with LEED Gold specifications. • All the woods we used are FSC (Forest Stewardship Council) certified, including the sapele and mahogany used for the tree house, and the mahogany for the balcony rail and planters. • We chose bamboo as the material for the grand stair that goes up 24 feet. Bamboo is a wood that easily replenishes, so we thought it would make sense to highlight it in a central design feature. • Themed elements construction will be fabricated off site to allow for the majority of off-gassing to occur off the premises. • Integrated walk-off grates – all entries will have integral walk off grates to help with indoor air, maintenance, and durability of finished surfaces. • No added urea formaldehyde to wood products. • All the substrates, sealants and the terrazzo flooring contain no toxic agents, and comply with all LEED criteria. • Many of our structures use 100% recycled steel, including the hanging garden. • Water efficient fixtures will achieve 38% savings over code, over 1.8 million gallons of water saved annually. • All the integrated lighting are energy efficient LED systems. Firm Description With a desire to create immersive environments, Rockwell Group takes a cross- disciplinary approach to its inventive array of projects. Based in downtown New York with satellite offices in Madrid and Dubai, our innovative, internationally acclaimed architecture and design firm specializes in hospitality, cultural, healthcare, educational, product, theater and film design. Crafting a unique and individual narrative concept for each project is fundamental to Rockwell Group’s successful design approach. From the big picture to the last detail, the story informs and drives the design. The seamless synergy of technology, craftsmanship and design is reflected in environments that combine high-end video technology, handmade objects, special effects and custom fixtures and furniture. Rockwell Group Lobby Past projects include the Chambers hotel (New York); W New York and W Union Square; the Walt Disney Family Museum (San Francisco); Maialino in the Gramercy Park Hotel (New York); Aloft hotels, Starwood Hotel & Resort’s new urban roadside oases; “Hall of Fragments,” the entrance installation to the 2008 11th annual Venice Architecture Biennale; the Kodak Theatre, home of the Academy Awards ceremony (Los Angeles); set design for the 2009 81st Academy Awards; Canyon Ranch Miami Beach; Casinos of the Earth, Sky and Wind at Mohegan Sun Casino (Uncasville, CT); interior work and brand conceptualization for the jetBlue terminal at John F. Kennedy International Airport; the Broadway musicals “Hairspray” and “Legally Blonde;” the Children’s Hospital at Montefiore; Adour Alain Ducasse at The St. Regis New York; Nobu restaurants worldwide including New York, Hong Kong, Melbourne, and Dubai; Bar American; Gordon Ramsay’s Maze (London); and a collection of wall coverings for Maya Romanoff. Currently projects include the Elinor Bunin-Munroe Film Center at Lincoln Center; Morgans Hotel Group’s Ames Hotel (Boston); and Crystals, the central retail and dining component of MGM MIRAGE and Infinity World Development Corp’s CityCenter in Las Vegas. In May 2009 Rockwell Group broke ground on Imagination Playground at Burling Slip in the South Street Seaport area of Lower Manhattan, a public-private partnership with the New York City Department of Parks & Recreation. Imagination Playground is a rich environment of diverse materials that encourages unstructured child- directed “free play,” the very sort of activity that is vital to developing cognitive, social and emotional skills. Through a partnership with KaBoom!, the leading non- profit dedicated to playground development all over the country, Rockwell Group will be offering fixed-site and other scalable models of Imagination Playground to communities nationwide. Pleasure: The Architecture and Design of Rockwell Group, was published by Universe, a division of Rizzoli Books in 2002. Spectacle by David Rockwell with Bruce Mau – a book examining the history and public fascination with larger-than-life manmade events – was published by Phaidon Press in October 2006. David Rockwell was honored with the 2009 Pratt Legends Award, the 2008 National Design Award by Smithsonian’s Cooper-Hewitt for outstanding achievement in Interior Design, a lifetime achievement award from Interiors magazine, an induction in Interior Design magazine’s Hall of Fame and the Presidential Design Award for his work for the Grand Central Terminal renovation. Rockwell serves as Chairman of the Board of the Design Industries Foundation Fighting AIDS (DIFFA), and as a board member of City-Meals-on-Wheels and the Public Theater. He is a member of the Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum’s committee on Exhibitions. 5 Union Square West | New York, NY 10003 | (212) 463-0334 | www.rockwellgroup.com Project List Hotel & Spa Affinia Hotel, New York, NY Alex Hotel, New York, NY Aloft Hotel Concept, Nationwide Ames Hotel, Boston, MA Art’otel, London, England Belvedere Hotel, Mykonos, Greece Benjamin Hotel, New York, NY Cancun Hotel, Cancun, Mexico Canyon Ranch Miami Beach, FL Carlton Hotel, New York, NY Chambers Hotel Chambers Hotel, Minneapolis, MN Chambers, New York, NY Confidential Spa, Phoenix, AZ El Conquistador Resort Puerto Rico, Condado Plaza Fairmont Hotel, Chicago, IL Four Seasons Hotel, Washington DC Greenwich Hotel, New York, NY Hyatt Andaz Wall Street, New York, NY Ibn Battuta Walk Master Plan, Dubai Ink 48, New York, NY Le Meridien, Oran, Algeria Virgin Spa at Natirar Pacific City, Huntington Beach, CA Se San Diego, CA Virgin Resort and Spa, Peapack, NJ W Hotel, Vieques, Puerto Rico W Hotel, New York, NY W Hotel, Union Square, New York, NY W Hotel Paris-Opéra, France Residential Watercolor Inn, Watercolor, FL 2 Gold Street, New York, NY 75 Wall Street, New York, NY 455 Central Park West, New York, NY Bridge Tower Place, New York, NY CityPlace One, Atlanta, GA Murano Grande, Miami, FL Octagon Park Apartments, New York, NY One Carnegie Hill, New York, NY One Union Square South, New York, NY Palm Beach Condominium, Palm Beach, FL Spring Street Hotel Queens West Buildings 1, 2, 3, 6 & 7, Queens, NY Riverhouse, New York, NY The Lyric, New York, NY The Sagamore, New York, NY The Sonoma, New York, NY The Tate, New York, NY Tribeca Tower, New York, NY West Port, New York, NY 5 Union Square West | New York, NY 10003 | (212) 463-0334 | www.rockwellgroup.com Adour Alain Ducasse at the St. Regis Hotel, New York, NY, Washington, D.C. Alma de Cuba, Philadelphia, PA Restaurants & Bars A Voce, Time Warner Center, New York, NY Bar Americain, New York, NY BLT Burger, Las Vegas, NV Blue Ginger, Wellesley, MA Bobby Flay Steak, Atlantic City, NJ Bobby’s Burger Palace, Monmouth, NJ, Smithtown, NY, Mohegan Sun Casino, CT Bourbon Steak, Four Seasons, Washington D.C brgr, New York, NY Café at Country, New York, NY Café Carlyle at the Carlyle Hotel, New York, NY Café Citron Saks Espresso and Juice Bar, New York, NY Café Gray, New York, NY Matsuhisa, Belvedere Hotel Carriage House Culinary Center, Peapack, NJ Chambers Kitchen at Chambers Hotel, Minneapolis, MN Cherry Nightclub, Las Vegas, NV Citarella, New York, NY Country at the Carlton, New York, NY Django, New York, NY Emeril’s Fish House, Las Vegas NV Emeril’s, New Orleans, LA, Miami, FL, Atlanta, GA Geisha, New York, NY Grand Central Terminal Dining Concourse,