MGM Grand Bets on Detroit
Luxury hotelier chooses the Motor City for its first city center hotel and casino
SmithGroup and Hamilton Anderson’s MGM Grand Detroit balances the need for eye-catching casino spectacle and staid and respectful architecture appropriate to an economically depressed Midwestern city by designing a Neo-Art Deco hotel tower that references Detroit’s history with clean detailing and polished vibrancy. The hotel and casino (which is MGM’s first hotel resort in any major city center) is just one project in the $1.5 billion gambling resort boom in Detroit, and a small part of the $15 billion reinvestment in the city’s downtown.

LEED-Registered Project Builds on Indigenous Technologies
Leo Daly and Conron & Woods complete design for N.M. retirement association headquarters
To move forward successfully, it helps to know what’s come before. As green building is gaining mainstream momentum and new technologies are proliferating in the marketplace, the Phoenix office of Leo A Daly and Santa Fe’s Conron & Woods found that, for the Public Employees Retirement Association (PERA) headquarters in Santa Fe, knowing and using historic and indigenous building technologies can effectively meet the criteria for building sustainably.

AIA Contract Documents 2007 Update: Transitioning to the New Documents
The AIA recently released 40 new, revised, and/or renumbered documents. In the previous two parts of this series, the major changes to the A201 Family and the new series of Owner/Architect Agreements were discussed. This article, the third of a three-part series on the 2007 documents, answers some basic questions on how the 2007 documents will be distributed to users.