This monster building can be found just south of the downtown area. It’s the World Market Center, perhaps the largest furniture showroom in the USA if not the world. It’s huge. The project is outlined here. The place looks as if it could double as a military command center. I was driving up the freeway when I saw it looming from afar. On the south side of the giant structures is a rather large and interesting outlet mall with a huge area for tourist buses. The place is packed with foreigners buying all they can. There is an older outlet mall on the south side of town that is probably getting ragged by now.
This thing is very impressive albeit creepy.
View from the front.
Across the street is an interesting outlet mall.
Inside the mall there is a wild-looking food court that impressed me (the architecture, not the food).
Coverage of the CES Show itself, links:
CES Coverage Day One
CES Coverage Day Two
CES Coverage Day Three
CES Coverage Booth Babes
CES Coverage High-End Audio
Smartalix’s CES Retrospective #1
Smartalix’s CES Retrospective #2
Smartalix’s CES Retrospective #3
First Off-Topic Report: Construction
Second Off-Topic Report: Tacos
That Market Center could do for a remake of “Things to Come”.
It looks like an Air Force Pave Paws Early Warning Radar site. Has this area of Las Vegas expanded all the way out to Nellis Air Force Base?
And by drive, you mean crawl… right? I-15 southbound in that area is worthless.
I agree that the building is odd, but if it brings people downtown then so be it: That area, from my point of view, has nothing else going for it.
Personally, I’ve been to Vegas three times in the past nine months. While I’ve enjoyed each vacation, I won’t be going again unless there’s a show I want to see. The crowds during the non-peak times are a bit much, and nothing new is really happening.
One thing to watch is for the fall of these condo-hotel deals that are springing up all around the strip. Trump broke from protocol and just sold all of the units in his building… as opposed to selling them over time to keep jacking up the price… when he realized there was a glut of these units on the market.
I believe Cyberdyne Systems is going to open an office in the building. And the Forbin Project has something in development in the basement.