Completion Date: March 2010 Owner: Jeff Herdzina, US DATA Corporation Program: A 5,000-square-foot office for an online data company, with a café, conference room, and gaming lounge. Design concept and solution: The architects wanted to convey the client's technological identity while boosting the office's already close-knit atmosphere. The new design features a large, open bullpen of workstations and a conference room bounded by a glass wall etched with numerical sequences to signify streams of data. A bright green wall, jutting and folding at changing angles, defines the circulation through the office like a kind of origami canopy, and divides the

Completion Date: November 2009 Owner: Denver Art Museum Program: A 4,936-square-foot shop in the lobby of the museum's Daniel Libeskind–designed building. The project, which also includes a café and office, replaces and updates the lobby's original shop. Design concept and solution: The architects aimed to attract more museum patrons while making the store feel like a natural extension of the art-viewing experience. They moved the shop from its original, somewhat obscure location under the main stairs into an underused portion of the lobby near the entrance. Respecting the dramatic angles and skewed geometry of Libeskind's design, the Roth + Sheppard

Ask any seasoned journalist, and he or she will likely confirm that the office environment for a news and media organization needs to support several seemingly incompatible activities, often occurring simultaneously. At any given moment, reporters are gathering information on the phone, impromptu meetings are happening in aisles and corridors, while writers and editors are trying to complete stories on tight deadlines. STUDIOS Architecture grappled with these demands when it designed offices for Dow Jones, the news and financial information provider best known as publisher of the Wall Street Journal. Soon after Rupert Murdoch’s media conglomerate, News Corporation (News Corp.),

The city of Tashkent just celebrated its 2,200th birthday, but the Uzbek capital, once a stop on the Silk Road, has retained little of its ancient architecture. In 1966, a 5.0-magnitude earthquake mostly leveled the city’s historic center of clay-brick buildings. The Soviet Union rebuilt with modern structures lining wide boulevards. But in the decades since Soviet rule, the Uzbek government has redeveloped the area with an eye toward bringing traditional ornamentation back to the city’s architecture while creating a sophisticated capital that embraces an international brand of contemporary design. One of its recent efforts, the International Forums Palace, anchors

Even before the economy tanked, few would have called the scope of CityCenter anything less than incredibly ambitious.

People showSpecSheet(); People Owner MGM Resorts International/Infinity World Architect Murphy/Jahn 35 East Wacker Dr., Suite 300 Chicago, IL 60601 P: 312-427-7300 F: 312-332-0274 Architect of record AAI ARCHITECTS, INC. Personnel in architect's firm who should receive special credit: William Bradley OAA, MRAIC – Partner David Jansen AIA, OAA, MRAIC, LEED AP – Partner Martin Dolan OAA, MRAIC, LEED AP – Project Architect Engineers Structural: Halcrow Yolles Telecommunications & Security: WSP Flack + Kurtz – MEP Consultants Sustainability / LEED: The Fore Group Lighting: L-Plan Acoustical: Shen Milsom Wilke Pool: STO Design Audio Visual: Shen Milsom Wilke Hardware: Door + Hardware

Photo © Patrick O’Neill/Steinkamp Photography People showSpecSheet(); People Owner MGM Resorts International/Infinity World Architect Gensler 3883 Howard Hughes Pkwy., Suite 650 Las Vegas, NV 89169 P: 702.893.2800 F. 702.893.2805 Personnel in architect's firm who should receive special credit: J.F. Finn AIA LEED AP, Principal in Charge Kap Malik AIA, Principal Design Director Timothy Sullivan, Project Manager Bart Tucker LEED AP, Project Designer Chris Musich, Technical Leader Bill Hebinck LEED AP, Architect Nupur Sinha LEED AP, Designer Sanjeev Tankha LEED AP, Designer Claude Kamar LEED AP, Architect Tom Baty, Designer Alex Webb LEED AP, Designer Bert Tietje, Job Captain Stuart Themudo,

People showSpecSheet(); People Owner MGM Resorts International/Infinity World Architect Studio Daniel Libeskind 2 Rector Street, New York, NY 10006 P: 212-497-9100 F: 212-285-2130 Personnel in architect's firm who should receive special credit: Daniel Libeskind, Owner Carla Swickerath, Principal Gerhard Brun, Associate David Stockwell, Associate Johan van Lierop, Associate Noah Wadden, Steven Haardt, Sean Ellis, William Hunter, Taek Kim, Kiwoo Park Architect of record Adamson Associates International (AAI) Architects, Inc. Personnel in architect's firm who should receive special credit: David Jansen, President Bill Bradley, Partner Ross Carter-Wingrove, Project Manager Executive architect Gensler of Nevada Engineers Structural: Halcrow Yolles MEPT: WSP Flack

Latter-Day Las Vegas On first seeing Las Vegas in 1965, I felt a shiver. Was it hate or love? The sprawling city, its polychrome signs etched against desert and so-blue sky, engendered both emotions. And the Strip, apotheosis of neon, archetype of suburban commerce, cried out to be studied. So in 1968, we launched our Learning from Las Vegas studio at Yale University [published in 1972 as Learning from Las Vegas, by Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown, and Steven Izenour]. In 1997, when we revisited the city, Steven Wynn, the Las Vegas casino and resort developer, was removing neon, replacing