DPA Fine Art Consulting

Memorable projects are not in short supply at Belzberg Architects. The haunting Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust and a technologically dazzling academic build­ing at Occidental College are just two examples. Joan Behnke & Associates, mean­while, has designed houses for celebrity athlete-model couple Tom Brady and Gisele Bündchen as well as members of the Forbes billionaires list. Put Hagy Belzberg and Joan…

Tuscan-Inspired Villas Redefine Las Vegas Luxe Probe just beyond the more-is-more ethos of Las Vegas architecture, and a history becomes apparent. The first of the big-wattage hotels, the shocking-pink Flamingo, opened in 1946, with its married-to-the-mob décor and casino. Low-slung glamour—the Sands, the Stardust, the Riviera and the Tropicana, with its sixty-foot waterfall—arrived in the fifties. Symbolism replaced neon in the sixties…