Learning from Las Vegas

*Gothic high-tech style. "The housing industry basically got into the casino business."

Swarming with starchitects.

http://www.thingsmagazine.net/2009/07/complexity-and-contradiction.htm

(((One of the many links at the ever-illuminating THINGS:)))

http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2009/jun/26/las-vegas-citycenter-recession

"A joint venture between the casino operator MGM Mirage and Dubai World, the vast CityCenter development in Las Vegas is the biggest privately funded construction project in the