The Venitian Hotel

Wimberly, Allison, Tong, & Goo (Architect)

Las Vegas Sands, Inc (General Contractor)

The owner is Sheldon Adelson/Las Vegas Sands

The Venitioan, Front Desk

WATG architect

The owner is Sheldon Adelson

Tom Wesselmann,# 57 "Great American Nude" , in 1964

he believes that the female nude is a subject to which an artist can devote his full attention.

Luxor 1993. Las Vegas  

Veldon Simpson (Architect), Yates-Silverman(Interior)

The hotel is named after the city of Luxor (ancient Thebes) in Egypt. The design aims to recreate the Great Sphinx of Giza as an entrance to Pyramid.

1.Pylon

2.Court

3.Hypostyle Hall

4.Sanctuary

5.Girdle Wall

6.Colossal statues of the Pharaoh

7.Obelisks

8.Avenue of Deities

1.Obelisk

2.Pylon

3.Colossal statues of Pharaoh

4. Recumbent dieties

Temple of Khons,Karnak

It is an almost complete New Kingtom temple.It shows us how ancient Egyptian organizes the space of the temple and orintation of decorations and statues.

Left: Excalibur 1990*  Veldon Simpson (Architect) and Marnell Corrao Assoc., Inc. (General Contractor).

Right: Luxor 1996 Two Tower Additions and Renovation. Klai::Juba (Architect), Dougall Design Associates (Interior Designer- Pyramid renovation), Anita Brooks/Charles Gruwell and Interior Design International (Interior Designer-Deluxe Tower Suites)

JOHN JERDE – FREMONT STREET EXPERIENCE, LAS VEGAS, NEVADA

packaged all casinos into one, treat the entire street as a grant lobby. Create a tunnel of light to attract more tourists to come.

UNGERS - ARCHITECTURE MUSEUM - FRANKFURT ON THE MAIN, 1976

The museum is built around a turn of the century “Italianette villa’ that provides in sequence - a skylight vestibule, circulation, access and galleries, but the core is the central message - an abstract gesture to Laugier’s hut.

The villa points to a sense of collective memory which is embodied in the fabric of the area.

From this came the concept of ‘house within a house’ of which the walls were the first layer reminiscent of city walls.

The interiors of the villa were then gutted out leaving only the the façade, and a new insert was made into it that met the programmatic requirements of the museum.

The first stage involved the building of a ceremonial wall around the villa thus immediately turning it into an exhibit.

Alexander Calder, Flamingo; Federal Center Plazza, Chicago, Il, 1974; Painted steel Plate, 40ft high.

In addition to his abstract mobiles, Calder also created static sculptures, called "stabiles,". This is a great example of it.

Alexander Calder, Bouganvillea, 1947; 6ft 4in x 6ft 11in, painted sheet metal & wire.

He is best known as the originator of the mobile, a type of kinetic sculpture the delicately balanced or suspended components of which move in response to motor power or air currents. Key idea: first to use wire to create three-dimensional line "drawings".

Alexander Calder, Non-Objective; Painted Metal, 58 x 84 x 36 inches, 1947.

He is best known as the originator of the mobile, a type of kinetic sculpture the delicately balanced or suspended components of which move in response to motor power or air currents. Key idea: first to use wire to create three-dimensional line "drawings".