CityCenter Expanding Las Vegas Skyline

CityCenter, the $8.4 billion, five-tower, 68-acre Las Vegas development, is the most expensive privately funded construction project in U.S. history, and its striking glass towers are set to change the city’s face.

To create the project’s massive glass facades, developers turned to glass fabricator Viracon, which was awarded contracts for and currently is supplying glass to four of the development’s five towers. “This is an exciting challenge for us,” says Brad Austin, senior vice president of Viracon. “Even though it’s a single development, we’re working with five different customers and four different architectural teams on four unique towers, each with its own glass specifications.”

In total, Viracon will supply more than 2.3 million square feet of glass to the development. Each tower was put out to bid separately. The towers that Viracon is supplying and the glazing contractors with which the company is working are:

• CityCenter Resort & Casino with Enclos Corp. and Super Sky Products Inc.
• Vdara with Benson Industries LLC.
• The Harmon Hotel & Residences with Walters & Wolf Glass Co.
• Mandarin Oriental Hotel & Residences (the podium and lower areas) with Crown Corr Inc.

Architects for the towers Viracon is working on are as follows:

• CityCenter Resort & Casino Ceasar Pelli.
• Vdara Rafael Vinoly.
• The Harmon Hotel & Residences Foster + Partners.
• Mandarin Oriental Hotel & Residences Adam Tihany / Pedersen Architects.

The glass for CityCenter towers includes everything from five different glass colors, a customized etched glass, multiple customized silk-screen patterns and VRE radiant low-E coatings to oversized, extra-thick glass for the various segments of the towers. Viracon began delivering the glass in March 2007 and is scheduled to continue delivery into 2009.

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