Las Vegas City Hall is located in downtown, it is a glassy, futuristic structure that celebrates the city's noted sunshine by day and illuminates its neon heritage by night.
The building built by Forest City Enterprises, features several environmentally friendly features, such as 33 energy producing solar trees as well as rooftop solar panels that reduce energy costs.
The building was designed with the vision of the Las Vegas former mayor Oscar Goodman whose intention was to build a world-class home for the city's government, "which would be a manifestation of open government to serve the people of Las Vegas and celebrate the rich diversity of the city's population."
The City Hall design also conveys the connection with the past, the present and the future of the great city of Las Vegas.
The past represented in the building draws from where Las Vegas derives its name — from the meadows once fed by an underground springs that attracted the original native residents, the Paiute Nation. The city council chambers structure was inspired by the springs, represented by the metallic ribbon ceilings in the chamber and the ceiling of the lobby's great room.
For the present, the nearby Hoover Dam helps to shape Las Vegas into a modern city; The dam and the walls of black canyon that embrace it are represented in the main structure of the City Hall through the horizontal bands of the north face of the building, which symbolize the earth's layers. The vertical glass fins on the plaza façade signify the huge drop in the Colorado River water level that the dam's turbines transform into electric energy.
The future is represented in the building's solar features. The sun is representing in the rays flowing along the building's east wing plaza façade onto the photovoltaic trees that shade the plaza and form its great space.
At nightfall, as if the falling water of the dam magically evaporates in the solar panels of the treetops, the energy created by the panels illuminates the glass fins of the building façade in an ever-changing display of color, creating a new landmark in the city's world famed heritage of light.
This stately building is a part of the ongoing urban renaissance in downtown Las Vegas, that includes the Smith Center for Performing Arts, Children's museum, the Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health, and the Mob museum, among others.
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