KPF Design New Luxury Vegas Hotel

The architecture practise has designed the new luxury hotel for Mandarin Oriental in the City of Sin that once built will contain 392 rooms, plus a further 225 apartments run by Mandarin Oriental. The building starts with a podium section that will be clad in a mixture of zinc, titanium, granite and limestone giving it a solid grounding with a touch of metal. Above rises the main body of the tower that has reputedly been decorated with a façade that's inspired by Chinese symbols. In reality this translates into a horizontally frittered facades with vertical metal strips running up the exterior in a similar manner to the Deansgate Hilton in Manchester. Much thought has been put into internally maximising the views for the towers occupants with the ballroom positioned with glazed walls, this should give the patrons of the facility uninterrupted views over Las Vegas allowing them to enjoy the architecture as much as their tastes will allow. Amongst the environmental features of the building are improved services that will reduce water consumption by 45%, and a high-tech cladding system that slices 9% off the emissions total. It should be noted however that these percentages are reductions from an original very high base, that of a luxury hotel in Las Vegas. Still, with the city unlikely to lose its love of conspicuous consumption any time soon, the green way forward for Vegas will be more of making that consumerism as environmentally pleasant as it can be exactly as KPF have planned with the Mandarin Oriental.