Pelli Clarke Pelli's ARIA Resort & Casino Wins Chicago Athenaeum Award for Cutting Edge Design in America

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, October 19, 2010 - Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects' (www.pcparch.com) ARIA Resort &
Casino (tinyurl.com/yh3vuuk) has been selected for a 2010 American
Architecture Award. The prestigious design awards program, organized by the
Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design
(www.chi-athenaeum.org) and The European Centre for Architecture Art
Design and Urban Studies, honors new and cutting edge design for projects
designed and built in the United States by American and international
architecture firms. A jury selected the winning projects from more than 1,000
entries. CityCenter (www.citycenter.com), the 67-acre Las Vegas
development of which ARIA (arialasvegas.com) is the centerpiece, is
also an award recipient. An exhibition of the winning projects begins Nov. 4
at "The City and the World: Madrid Symposium" before traveling to Athens and
Istanbul.

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As the tallest structure in CityCenter, ARIA Resort & Casino redefines
the Las Vegas skyline. The 3.8 million-square-foot hotel-casino complex is
comprised of two curvilinear steel-and-glass towers. Guest rooms and
light-filled corridors offer panoramic views of the Las Vegas Strip below and
the surrounding mountains beyond. The project includes 4,000 guest rooms, a
150,000-square-foot casino, 16 restaurants, 10 bars and lounges, shops, a
three-level conference center, two-level spa building, a 215,000-square-foot
pool deck, and an 1,800-seat theater for Cirque du Soleil
(promo-www.cirquedusoleil.com/las-vegas/elvis-shows.html). ARIA also
includes works by renowned artists Maya Lin, Jenny Holzer, and Tony Cragg.

Consistent with CityCenter's scale — it is the world's largest
LEED-rated development — ARIA is the world's largest hotel to achieve a LEED
Gold rating. Continuing Pelli Clarke Pelli's innovations in sustainable
design (tinyurl.com/377b6l2), green technologies used in ARIA will
result in a 30 percent improvement in energy efficiency and an estimated
savings of 31 million gallons of water each year.

Founded in 1977 and led by Cesar Pelli, Fred Clarke, and Rafael Pelli,
Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects has designed some of the world's most
recognizable buildings, including the World Financial Center
(tinyurl.com/2g46cre) in New York, the Petronas Towers
(tinyurl.com/32895yl) in Kuala Lumpur, and the International Finance
Centre (tinyurl.com/2ua2vzk) in Hong Kong. The firm has been honored
with critical acclaim and hundreds of design awards, including the American
Institute of Architects' Firm Award and the Aga Khan Award for Architecture.

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Janet Yoder, Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects, +1-203-777-2515, jyoder at pcparch.com