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Martin Stern Jr. (April 9, 1917 - July 28, 2001) was an American architect who was most widely known for his large scale designs and structures in Las Vegas, Nevada. He is credited with originating the concept of the structurally integrated casino resort complex in Las Vegas.
2 de ago. de 2001 · Martin Stern Jr., an architect who pioneered the eye-popping Googie-style coffee-shop architecture of Los Angeles and then brought his exuberant vision to the skyline of the Las Vegas strip, died...
1 de ago. de 2001 · Martin Stern Jr., the architect who in the mid-20th century designed a significant chunk of Las Vegas’ skyline and such beloved Googie-style structures as Los Angeles’ Ships coffee shops, has...
Martin J. Stern, Jr., an architect based in Beverly Hills, designed numerous hotels and casinos in Nevada, most of them in Las Vegas. The building was the largest three-wing tower constructed in the city at that time; yet only four years later, in 1973, it gained a 1,500-room wing, doubling its capacity.
Martin Stern, Jr. was born in New York in 1917. His family moved to Beverly Hills in time for him to study architecture at nearby University of Southern California. After the war, he moved back to Los Angeles and set up a small practice. During the 50's he pioneered the Googie Architecture with the design of the three Ships coffee shops.
It can be said that it was Martin Stern who truly transformed the architectural landscape of Las Vegas, who raised the skyline and took the low-slung sprawling strip motel with its two-story room wings around a pool, to the imposing high-rise hotel that now characterizes the Strip.
Known for how his design work changed the Las Vegas Skyline, Martin Stern Jr. influenced resort design internationally through his vision of master-planned structurally-integrated casino resort complexes, his fusion of conceptual themes with natural environments, and his enlargement of casino resort scale and complexity.
