LAS VEGAS A GUIDE TO RECENT ARCHITECTURE

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This is the first guide to the architecture of Las Vegas – the casinos, hotels, bright lights and neon signage of the most popular gambling mecca in the world. It charts the riseof the new themed casino and entertainment resorts – the Mirage, Luxor, Excalibur and Treasure Island – whose increasingly elaborate streetside spectacles and outlandish architecture are transforming the Strip into an urban theme park, and describes new developments in lighting technology,exemplified by the ever-changing digitised «light spectacular» of the Fremont Street Experience. But there is more to Las Vegas than gambling venues, and this guide also contains many examples of civic and residential architecture, from pop to high art, including the City Hall by smooth modernists DMJM, the new City Library by Michael Graves, and the flamboyant residence of Siegfried and Roy, inheritors of the rhinestone mande of Liberace.

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ANDERTON, FRANCES; CHASE, JOHN