Technology Center, Las Vegas, NV, USA
The new Technology Center is a location for technology and digital development focused businesses, located in the Summerlin area of Las Vegas. The 200,000 sqft (38,000 sqm) building contains workshops and flexible working office spaces, a shared use 800-seat conference hall, lecture theatres, research and development laboratories, supporting offices and cafes. The main volume formed of the conference hall and lecture theatres is visually detached from the ground, while maintaining the transparency and connectivity of the ground floor to the surrounding business park and for approaching visitors. The internal spaces are separated from the exterior construction by an external envelope which sweeps across the internal spaces to form external terraces and a curved staircase. The construction system for the external envelope was devised by Newtecnic in order to make the project both economic and visually of the near-future. To achieve the complex geometric forms, the project is clad both externally and internally with glass fiber reinforced composite panels. Newtecnic is responsible for the complete multi-disciplinary design of the project, including architecture, structural engineering, facade engineering and MEP engineering.