Client: City of Las Vegas, Forest City Commercial Group, Las Vegas, Nevada
“It’s certainly a beautiful building that every citizen in Las Vegas can be proud of. It is only the beginning of the transformation of Las Vegas — and the entire community — into the world-class city it deserves to become.”
Carolyn Goodman
Mayor of Las Vegas
Project Description
The new Las Vegas City Hall communicates the goal of transparent government by opening out to the city with a street-level program that accommodates daily civic programming.
The LEED-NC Gold-certified building is dedicated to sustainability, featuring strategies including a solar panel rooftop, glass with integrated shading technology, and landscape photovoltaic canopies that shade the plaza and act as energy-generating “trees.”
The design tells the story of the city’s past, present, and future sources of energy: the Council Chamber’s form is inspired by the desert springs that were the original source of water; the main façade is a metaphor for the Colorado River, which generates the City’s energy at Hoover Dam; and the photovoltaic trees generate energy from the sun, the city’s future source of renewable energy.
