CityCenter's CLASSLESS Move
Blog: VEGAS HAPPENS HERE - 7 November 2009
By: THE STRIP PODCAST
They go and commission the great architect Sir Norman Foster to build a hotel-condo called the Harmon. Then, because of construction defects, bad economic foresight and lax oversight, they chop it in half, lose the condos and delay the opening by a year.
And now they turn it into that crassest and lamest of New Vegas tropes, a billboard?
That was taken by @LVSteven This is just so awful. This is what CEO Jim Murren had in mind when he gathered the world's best architects? Here's another view sent in today from @JeffinOKC:
I aready groaned when thee Mandarin Oriental did this...
...but have been reassured that that draping would be removed by opening day.
And now they turn it into that crassest and lamest of New Vegas tropes, a billboard?
That was taken by @LVSteven This is just so awful. This is what CEO Jim Murren had in mind when he gathered the world's best architects? Here's another view sent in today from @JeffinOKC:
I aready groaned when thee Mandarin Oriental did this...
...but have been reassured that that draping would be removed by opening day.
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