Entry Number: UB03050
Project Name: UNLV Student Union
Project Address: University of Nevada – Las Vegas Main Campus
Building Type: Education
Completion Date: June 2007
Design Team:
Architect: Tate Snyder Kimsey Architects in association with Ellerbe Becket

Design Team: Bill Synder, FAIA; Windom Kimsey, FAIA; Steve Ranck, AIA; Colin Hogan, AIA; Vince Novak
Interior Designer: Ellerbe Becket
Landscape Architect: SWA Group
Structural Engineer: Ellerbe Becket
Electrical Engineer: Ellerbe Becket
Mechanical Engineer: Ideas for the Built Environment (IBE) & Ellerbe Becket
Civil Engineer: Lochsa Engineering
Owner/Developer: UNLV
Others Involved:
Food Service – Dieli Howe Smith
Lighting Design – DNA Lighting Design
Acoustical Consulting – Martin Newson & Associates
Life Safety – Schirmer Engineering
Signage & Wayfinding – Hunt Design Associate
Cost Consulting – ESG

Design Approach: The new student union is designed to encourage interaction and to build a campus community for students, faculty and administrators. Programming and design challenges focused on the predominantly commuter-based university population, short-term project phasing and responding to the long-term UNLV master plan.

Material in ASL Library: Form Core Boards, Project Identification Form, Project Entry Form, Site Location, Site Plan, Floor Plans, Conceptual Sketches, Photo of Model, Exterior Perspectives, Interior Perspectives and CD