The Crystals, Luxury shopping center in Las Vegas Strip, US.
The Shops at Crystals is a 500,000-square-foot (46,000 m2) mall in the CityCenter complex on the Las Vegas Strip. Daniel Libeskind designed the exterior with sharp angles, abundant glass and 19 overlapping steel roofs; David Rockwell shaped the interior, which includes a 70-foot wooden treehouse used as a concierge desk and restaurant seating. The complex received LEED Gold Core & Shell certification.
The center opened in December 2009 as part of the CityCenter development but faced early challenges during the Great Recession. Ownership shifted to Invesco and Simon Property Group in 2016.
The interior includes a flower carpet changed with the seasons, inspired by the Flower Carpet event in Brussels. A 70-foot wooden treehouse structure serves as a concierge desk and restaurant seating, and Mastro's Ocean Club offers dining space within it. Water and ice features by WET include Halo's clear water-filled cylinders and Glacia's ice columns rising up to 15 feet, accompanied by a tone poem from Mickey Hart.
The center sits on Las Vegas Boulevard with daily shopping hours and valet parking services near major hotels nearby. Visiting in mid-morning or early afternoon tends to be less crowded than evenings or weekends.
The three-story Louis Vuitton store covers 14,000 sq ft (1,300 m2), the largest in North America. The mall also holds Halo, clear water-filled cylinders whose high-speed motors spin the water into vortices lit in colour, and Glacia, ice columns up to 15 feet tall whose internal rods heat or cool the ice into carvings, set to a tone poem by Mickey Hart.
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