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Vdara in Nevada, United States

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Vdara

2009 · Nevada, Nevada, United States

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Resort in Las Vegas, Nevada

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Vdara

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2009 · Nevada, Nevada, United States

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1995 · Tokyo, Japan

Typeworkbureau
Year / years20091995
PlaceNevada, Nevada, United StatesTokyo, Japan
Place contextNevada, Nevada, United StatesRepresentative site: Hitachi, Hitachi, Japan
Climate17°C · 13.3h daylight · 5 km/h wind15°C · 13.3h daylight · 6 km/h wind · via Hitachi Station
FocusPerformance venue11 works in corpus
Architects
  • Rafael Vinoly
  • Kazuyo Sejima
  • Ryue Nishizawa
Linked context

Bureaus

  • Rafael Vinoly Architects

Notable works

  • Hitachi Station
  • New Museum
  • 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa
  • Towada Art Center
Typologies
  • performance venue
  • hospitality
  • performance venue
  • museum
  • cultural building
  • gallery
  • university building
  • learning center
  • academic building
  • landscape
Materials
  • stone
  • glass
  • aluminum
  • steel
  • concrete
  • timber
Carbon signals

Stone look like the main embodied-carbon drivers in the current palette.

  • Stone

Aluminum, Concrete, and Steel look like the main embodied-carbon drivers in the current palette.

  • Aluminum
  • Concrete
  • Steel
Lower-carbon levers
  • Check source geography, fabrication intensity, and whether stone is structural, cladding, or finish-only.
  • Focus on recycled content, lighter assemblies, and careful facade-specification choices.
  • Look for lower-clinker mixes, reused structure, and scope reductions before fine-grained product swaps.
  • Prioritize recycled content, efficient sections, and procurement-specific EPD comparisons.
  • Compare system-level facade options, reduce overspecification, and pair glass choices with structural reductions.
AccessibilityPublicly accessible10 of 10 recorded works are publicly accessible
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