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The history of the Las Vegas Convention Center is the history of the city. It’s a history of the Las Vegas experience, a brand and an ongoing project to invent new limits and surpass them. It’s the same as the city’s project for the future. The LVCC Expansion is an extension of that experience. It draws its energy and returns it to the most Exciting City in the World. Its presence, its technology, must communicate that brand, a sense of destiny and destination. It must move people, physically and in the imagination. The design begins with visual reach and experience that unifies the campus across the distance from the Strip to the South Hall. Access and program punctuate the campus between those two endpoints; nodes made cohesive by a ‘ribbon’ of circulation. Echoing the region’s mountains, the ribbon is amplified at significant points to unite, announce entry and celebrate the act of gathering; an orienting path for the eyes, the feet and the mind. The ribbon is a wayfinding landscape of seamless connection and graphic activation from end to end, continuous and customizable to announce and activate the LVCC and make it a visible player from Las Vegas Boulevard and its hotels; an artery of Vegas experience piped straight from the Strip. The design creates a compact, economical arrangement of program to for the flexibilities that result from leaving much of the site open; an advantage for outdoor exhibit local to the Strip, for further expansion and response to surrounding development. Programmatically, the exhibit hall is efficient and structurally repetitive, designed for steel construction speed to market unencumbered by surmounting structure or by scheduling dependencies of the adjacent concourses and conference center. Those are free to proceed on their own sequence in steel or concrete, however market influences advantage them. The circulation Ribbon incorporates separate major lobbies so that separate entries can serve separate exhibit events in divided hall arrangements. Meeting program is stacked adjacent to the exhibit hall such that it functions in concert with exhibit or separately as an independent facility when the hall is unoccupied. It incorporates multiple spaces for inside/outside function. Its circulation is organized to create and emphasize intersections and moments of rest for chance encounters. The design for the LVCC Expansion is part of the LVCC’s ongoing relationship to the larger phenomenon of the City. Las Vegas was settled in a valley backdropped by mountains, mountains that now backdrop the casinos and hotels of the Vegas strip, mountains that inspire the concourses of the LVCC; itself a frame, a backdrop and source of power to the dream of Las Vegas.