Paul Goldberger Looks at What the Starchitect-Heavy CityCenter Means to Las Vegas

When a new, much-talked about piece of architecture opens, you read about it right away from all the usual critics, gathering up all the details about what it looks like, how it fits into its surroundings, what it says about whatever its trying to say, and some bits and pieces about the architect and why they did what. Once you have all those facts and figures, you wait a couple of months before the New Yorker‘s resident critic, Paul Goldberger, to come in to give you the big picture.