CityCenter is a urban complex on 76 acres located on the Las Vegas Strip in Paradise, Nevada. The ultra-modern CityCenter is the official half-way point of the Strip. CityCenter consists of Aria hotel and casino, Mandarin Oriental hotel, Vdara hotel and residence, Weer resedential towers and Crystals shopping center. The Harmon Hotel in the center of the picture below is a part of city center, but it is not completed and most likely won’t be according to the media sources.
Anchoring the complex is Aria Resort and Casino, one of three hotels and the only one with a casino. Set amidst all the action of CityCenter Las Vegas. Aria Hotel has some of the best restaurants in town, an impressive art collection and Viva Elvis. For the best in business hotels, the Mandarin Oriental features desks that can project laptop monitors on the flat-screen TVs, iPod docking stations and automatic memory of your personal settings. The most tourist friendly spot is 23 floors up in the Mandarin’s sky lobby which offers amazing views of the strip for free.
The rooms in Aria are bigger than most in Las Vegas and feature the latest in technology to make your stay as personal as possible. A view from Aria.
The art pieces are located throughout CityCenter with installations both indoors and out to create a roving gallery of masterpieces. Here is Big Edge, Nancy Rubin, 2009 in front of Aria.
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This Typewriter Eraser sculpture, located in the City Center Mall across the street from Aria, will be familiar to people who grew up in ’50s and ’60s. The eraser was used to erase mistakes made while typing, and the brush was meant to brush away the residue.
Stainless steel sculptures by Tony Cragg are located at Aria Resort: “Bolt” (2007); “Bent of Mind” (2008); “Untitled” (Tall Column) (2008).
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Feeling Material XXVIII by Antony Gormley (2007) is Located on the promenade level at Aria Resort. It is situated under a sky light that allows the sun to highlight the artwork.
Look up as they give you your room key and you will see Maya Lin’s Silver River Sculpture depicting the Colorado River.
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Reclining Connected Forms sculpture by Henry Moore is made of Roman travertine marble. It is located in The Park between ARIA Resort & Casino and Crystals retail and entertainment district. Henry Moore won the International Prize for Sculpture at the Venice Biennale in 1948. His signature form is a reclining figure of which he is said to have been influenced by the ancient cultures of Egypt and pre-Columbian Mexico.
Crystals, the retail mall at City Center, is designed to give visitors more than a shopping or dining adventure. The interior includes a collection of “green spaces” and jagged shapes in the midst of the retail area.
The expansive interior of an 80-foot-tall sculptural Tree House encompasses Mastro’s main dining room. On the dining terrace, Mastro’s offers views of the angular shapes, towering ceilings and unique artistic elements of Crystals.
The Art of Richard McDonald was presented at Crystals featuring over 50 bronze sculptures by the artist.
Below are photos of Glacia, the ice sculpture that greets visitors inside the Strip entrance to Crystals. Its collection of pillars rise from a clear “pool” of water, the water freezing as it flows down the columns and changing the sculpture so that it is never the same. The clarity of the ice varies from crystal clear to frosty, and the lighting changes to different colors every few seconds. Note the pillars’ reflections in the pool from which they rise.
A view of the Strip from the Tiffany’s jewelry store location.
CityCenter is an unprecedented urban metropolis between Bellagio and Monte Carlo resorts on the Las Vegas Strip.
