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Hero image

2009 · Nevada, Nevada, United States

Vdara image

Resort in Las Vegas, Nevada

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Vdara

Nevada, Nevada, United States · Exact work coordinates

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Hero image

Resort in Las Vegas, Nevada

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Comparison

Field	Vdara 2009 · Nevada, Nevada, United States	Douglas Cardinal Architect 1964 · Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Type	work	bureau
Year / years	2009	1964
Place	Nevada, Nevada, United States	Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Place context	Nevada, Nevada, United States	Representative site: Gatineau, Gatineau, Canada
Climate	26°C · 13.3h daylight · 6 km/h wind	2°C · 13.8h daylight · 17 km/h wind · via Canadian Museum of History
Focus	Performance venue	3 works in corpus
Architects	Rafael Vinoly	Douglas Cardinal
Linked context	Bureaus Rafael Vinoly Architects	Notable works Canadian Museum of History Telus World of Science Edmonton National Museum of the American Indian
Typologies	performance venue hospitality	museum house performance venue landscape
Materials	stone	timber
Carbon signals	Stone look like the main embodied-carbon drivers in the current palette. Stone	The recorded material palette leans lower-carbon on paper, but procurement and quantity still matter. No dominant drivers yet.
Lower-carbon levers	Check source geography, fabrication intensity, and whether stone is structural, cladding, or finish-only.	Track sourcing, certification, and assembly logic rather than assuming timber is automatically low impact.
Accessibility	Publicly accessible	3 of 3 recorded works are publicly accessible
Related books	No linked books yet.	No linked books yet.