Iconic skyscrapers, especially those that strive for the fleeting title of “world’s tallest building,” are rarely the progeny of cold logic.

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

Vegas’s newest high-stakes bet, the $8.5 billion CityCenter, has had a bumpy ride, with the deaths of six construction workers, a lawsuit between development partners over rising costs that was later dropped, and funding woes brought on by the global credit crisis.

People showSpecSheet(); People Owner MGM Resorts International/Infinity World Architect RV Architecture, LLC 50 Vandam Street New York, NY 10013 Personnel in architect's firm who should receive special credit: Rafael Viñoly, FAIA, JIA, SCA Jay D. Bargmann, AIA, NCARB Harold Park, AIA, LEED AP Chan-Li Lin, AIA, LEED AP Jiwoo Park, AIA Architect of record Leo A. Daly Personnel in architect's firm who should receive special credit: Leo A. Daly Tom Czech Lamberto Smigliani John Avery Reggie Smith Ysidro Baron Chuck Dixon Associate architect Hamilton Anderson Associates Engineers Structural: DeSimone Consulting Engineers Civil: Lochsa Engineering, LLC Mechanical/Electrical: Cosentini Associates Geotechnical: Terracon