Great shots, Hunter! Are you in town?

I went to the Venetian today and went over to the entrance where it connects to the Palazzo and the guard told me that the Palazzo will open on Sunday at 6 p.m.

This is the first new resort on the Strip in quite awhile.

I was, briefly. Unfortunately I missed the opening, which really bums me out. Great shots, I see they are appearing on other sites as well.

The interior look pretty snazzy, and looks like another great completed Vegas resort. Can a mod please change the status to LAS VEGAS | The Palazzo | 642 ft | 53 fl | 500 ft | 50 fl | Com | U/C (to include the u/c condo tower)?
I was wondering if we should start a new thread for the condo tower or just continue this one. May as well just keep posting here.

But why only 500 feet for the condo tower? The official planning commission agenda sheet says 632 feet (and it doesn't say how many floors).
http://dsnet.co.clark.nv.us/dsnetapps/agendaweb/Data/P0194639.htm

VTaT says it's 50 floors (on the palazzo page, in the construction stats, it says its 43 floors) so then its probably 50 floors and 632 feet.

Las Vegas Sands Corporation has been presenting their future expansion plans and vision for Las Vegas.

The vision is of a third resort connected to both the Venetian and Palazzo. It will go on the site of the present Sands Expo center (green area on site map). First they have to build a new Expo center (yellow area on site map) east of the Wynn employee parking garage. I think the new Expo Center is already approved and it will have over 2 million sq. feet of exhibit space. They also have approval for a skywalk for the public to get to the new Expo, but it will have to go over or under the Wynn employee skywalk, so it will be interesting to see how they configure that.

New Resort with possibly 4,000-7,000 more hotel or condo keys.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v120/mdiederi/buildings/Palazzo/LVS-III.jpg

New Expo Center
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v120/mdiederi/buildings/Palazzo/Expo-II.jpg

Site map
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v120/mdiederi/buildings/Palazzo/ExpoSites.jpg

Here's a new render for the LVS's Palazzo condo tower that is under construction now.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v120/mdiederi/buildings/Palazzo/pcondo.jpg

And it's sky lobby balcony.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v120/mdiederi/buildings/Palazzo/pskylobby.jpg

:eek::eek: very luxurious and sumptuous :okay:

WOW! MASSIVE!!! GO FOR IT!!! :cheers:

Allow me to put this into perspective. As a size comparison, Freedom Tower in New York will have "only" 2,600,000 square feet of floor space.


FT will have 2,600,000 square feet of class-A office space; it will have 3,600,000 square feet of total floor space according to what I last heard from the engineer's site last year. I think this is because it has lots of below grade space. To think about it, the whole New WTC must have something like 20MSF of total space.

Vegas needs to be buildings taller and I am sure it will happen soon.

the New Expo Center kicks ass!

i LOVE it.

FT will have 2,600,000 square feet of class-A office space; it will have 3,600,000 square feet of total floor space according to what I last heard from the engineer's site last year. I think this is because it has lots of below grade space. To think about it, the whole New WTC must have something like 20MSF of total space.

Vegas needs to be buildings taller and I am sure it will happen soon.

thats if FT ever gets built of course

i can't see 1000-1500 foot hotels rising up along the mid and south strip as long as McCarran is there, it took them over a year to get permission to build Crown at 1064 feet and that sits OUTSIDE the FAA zone.

The problem with hotels that tall is safety and of course fire-risk, for now the next generation of vegas strip hotels will be between 600-800 feet just as the previous generation (mirage, treasure island, monte carlo, luxor, excalibur etc) were between 300-500 feet.

A few pictures with the lights on. It has become a beautiful building.

http://img267.imageshack.us/img267/1998/dsc2299resizewv8.jpg

http://img267.imageshack.us/img267/4686/dsc2309resizevd8.jpg

^^ Wow... You're right that hotel tower is beautiful!!!

like most vegas hotels it doesn't look all that great during the day but at night, wow, just wow, great lighting effect

hopefully the next generation of vegas hotel (city center, fountainebleau, cosmo, echelon etc) will look good both at night and during the day :)

How's the condo tower coming along.

Las Vegas Sands Corporation has been presenting their future expansion plans and vision for Las Vegas.

The vision is of a third resort connected to both the Venetian and Palazzo. It will go on the site of the present Sands Expo center (green area on site map). First they have to build a new Expo center (yellow area on site map) east of the Wynn employee parking garage. I think the new Expo Center is already approved and it will have over 2 million sq. feet of exhibit space. They also have approval for a skywalk for the public to get to the new Expo, but it will have to go over or under the Wynn employee skywalk, so it will be interesting to see how they configure that.

New Resort with possibly 4,000-7,000 more hotel or condo keys.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v120/mdiederi/buildings/Palazzo/LVS-III.jpg

New Expo Center
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v120/mdiederi/buildings/Palazzo/Expo-II.jpg

Site map
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v120/mdiederi/buildings/Palazzo/ExpoSites.jpg

This expansion sucks. I do not like it. this expansion's gonna happen because the Sands Expo Center existed before the Sands passed away in 1996.

How's the condo tower coming along.

The latest update is from April 20, it was on the 11th floor then; i'd imagine its on the 20th floor by now.

http://www.vegastodayandtomorrow.com/images/palazzo%20condo%20080520a.jpg

http://www.vegastodayandtomorrow.com/images/palazzo%20condo%20080520.jpg

Oh my gosh.

Las Vegas is so damn tacky. Nothing against classical architecure, but that's just... horrible :ohno:

Palazzo condo tower up to 13th floor, its so slow :(

http://www.vegastodayandtomorrow.com/images/palazzo%20condo%20080715a.jpg

wow.

View of the Palazzo condo tower from the pool deck, it is excruciatingly slow!:

http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b96/fccDaniel/palazzocondo080809b.jpg

http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b96/fccDaniel/palazzocondo080809a.jpg

What's that angled steel?

I know it's not the condo tower... but here is the Palazzo tower, from my random Wednesday night... :)

http://i170.photobucket.com/albums/u270/heyyoucharlie/DSCN0094.jpg

Palazzo Condo Tower





http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v233/donpacho/Part%20Two/DSC07415s.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v233/donpacho/Part%20Two/DSC07470s.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v233/donpacho/Part%20Two/DSC08183s.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v233/donpacho/Part%20Two/DSC08190s.jpg



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^^ Did the construction stopped? I only see little process compared another picture above this page.

There has been quite a it of construction man.

On Hold?, looks like it.

^^Yes, it is on hold. It will be a St. Regis hotel and residences, but construction is not expected to resume until mid to late 2009.

Oh my gosh.

Las Vegas is so damn tacky. Nothing against classical architecure, but that's just... horrible :ohno:

Agreed. Las Vegas is the tackiest city in the world. Pure architectural kitsch (with a few exceptions).

The people love it though. Tourists from around the world spend not billions but trillions of dollars here. They revel and glory in the kitsch. It's like an adult Disney World ... everything is about artifice and glitter and imaginery magic. It brings out the children in people ... they get giddy when they arrive. Everything is about flashing colors, special effects, parties, gambling, shows, and entertainment.

Everything is about flashing colors, special effects, parties, gambling, shows, and entertainment.

Sounds good to me...:cheers1:

Any new pictures from the condominium tower progress?

^^ I think it is on hold now.

^^ I think it is on hold now.

Now too??? There are no abdeit of VEGAS :ohno:

There is no nobody around Las Vegas? Give photographs from the building site. Whether really he is On Hold ? :)

This hotel is massive and Wow!! :nuts:....I love to visit these kind of places here and there are other great places too...

Vegas architecture worries me.:ohno:

Las Vegas needs to inovate their architecture.

http://www.emporis.com/application/?nav=building&id=212149&lng=3

Existing [completed]

I can't believe they have money for this, I thought vegas was doing really bad?

I can't believe they have money for this, I thought vegas was doing really bad?

Money for what? I don't get it :dunno:

Money for what? I don't get it :dunno:

What's so hard to get Mr. Dizzy?

This was built a long time ago. I believe sieradzanin1 was showing that it should be moved, but really there was no need to bump it.