Designing A 'Themeless' Vegas Casino
12 April 2005 - 1:00pm
Architect Cesar Pelli will design a 4,000-room "themeless" hotel-casino, part of a $4.7-billion project to be built on the Las Vegas Strip.
Unlike the faux castles, pyramids, jungles and city knockoffs that make up the giant themed resorts along the Strip, this project will be about the architecture, said Pelli, former dean of Yale University's School of Architecture.
...'When you don't have a theme, the attraction of the building has to rest in the beauty of the architecture,' Pelli said. "
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Pelli to Design Themeless Casino
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The Los Angeles Times, April 11, 2005
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