Pelli Clarke & Partners

ARIA Resort and Casino

ARIA Resort and Casino
© Jeff Goldberg

ARIA RESORT AND CASINO

Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects

ARCHITECTS
Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects

PHOTOGRAPHS
Jeff Goldberg

ASSOCIATE ARCHITECT
GSR Andrade Architect

LANDSCAPE EXECUTIVE
The Office of James Burnett

MEP
Aguirre Roden and Flack + Kurtz

CIVIL ENGINEERING
Lochsa Engineering

LEED ADMINISTRATION AND ENVIRONMENTAL DESIGN
Green Building Services

STRUCTURAL ENGINEERS
Thornton Tomasetti and Jessen-Wright Structural Engineers

LOCATION
Las Vegas, United States

CATEGORY
Hotels

YEAR
2009

AREA
566.708 m2

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The ARIA Resort and Casino is the centerpiece of CityCenter, an urban development on a 27-hectare (66-acre) site fronting the Las Vegas Strip.

ARIA Resort and Casino
© Jeff Goldberg
ARIA Resort and Casino
© Jeff Goldberg

The 4,000-room hotel and casino is the tallest structure in CityCenter. Constructed of steel and glass, the shimmering towers reflect the changing sky and the lights of Las Vegas.

The 353,000-square-meter (3.8-million-squarefoot) hotel-casino complex comprises two counterpoising, curvilinear towers joining to form an open center.

ARIA Resort and Casino
© Jeff Goldberg
ARIA Resort and Casino
© Jeff Goldberg

The curved plan creates gently arched corridors, filled with natural light, which give the appearance of a shorter distance from the elevators to the guest rooms.

Visitors enter the building under a textured and faceted grand glass canopy. East of the hotel tower is a casino, retail area, and dining, bar, and lounge space. West of the towers is an 1,800-seat theater with a layered, three-dimensional façade. Just past the theater is a three-level conference center.

ARIA Resort and Casino
© Jeff Goldberg
ARIA Resort and Casino
© Jeff Goldberg
ARIA Resort and Casino
© Jeff Goldberg

With its glass façade, the conference center is filled with natural light and has views of the landscaped pool area. Opposite the convention center is a two-level spa building clad in Las Vegas red metaquartzite stone.

ARIA is the world's largest hotel to achieve a LEED Gold rating. The building's primary energy-saving feature is its curtain wall, which uses a new generation of glass coatings that allow maximum daylight while blocking internal heat gain. Sunshades also reduce glare, while the exterior envelope minimizes demand for cooling.

Water efficiency is also a key achievement. More than 117,000 cubic meters (31 million gallons) of water are saved throughout the resort each year. This includes savings of 40 percent in the hotel and 60 percent for landscape irrigation by U.S. standards.

ARIA Resort and Casino
© Jeff Goldberg
ARIA Resort and Casino
© Jeff Goldberg

In addition to LEED, ARIA received the highest rating from the Green Key Eco-Rating Program for sustainable hotel operations.


ARIA Resort and Casino
Ground Floor Plan
ARIA Resort and Casino
Tower Floor Plan


ARIA Resort and Casino
Site Plan
ARIA Resort and Casino
Site Plan 2

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