Clark County Detention Center
Architect(s): HOK and JMA Architects (original)
and HCA and Dworsky Nevada (addition)
Address: 330 S. Casino Center
Year: 1984 and 2002

This building was purposely designed to resemble an office building instead of a jail to blend into downtown. The 350,000 square-foot facility is twelve stories tall, clad with glazed brick, and contains 1,450 beds. The Detention Center and Clark County Courthouse a few blocks away are connected through underground passageways to securely move inmates from one building to the other. A 320,000 square-foot expansion by HCA and Dworsky Nevada, the south building (left in the photo), opened in 2002 and has provided 1,300 additional beds. The expansion design won an AIA Nevada Design Award in 1998.

Information about CCDC (last accessed 3.2.2006)
Emporis information on CCDC (last accessed 3.2.2006)

Resources available in the ASL:
“Clark County Detention Center Expansion.” Nevada Construction Review (2001): 96-97. ASL File #: GEN 17

Geary, Frank. “Courthouse, jail building over budget.” Las Vegas Review-Journal, 14 May 2001: 1B, 7B. ASL File #: LVA(F) TS 36

----------------. “$30 million added for jail, courthouse.”  Las Vegas Review-Journal,   3 April 2002: 1B, 10B.  ASL File #: LVA(F) TS 35

Haley, Nick.  “Prison Design Secures Award.”  Las Vegas Review-Journal, 20 June 2004 , 1M, 3M.  ASL File #:  LVA(F) HCA 5

“1998 AIA Nevada Design Awards Recipients.” AIA Las Vegas Forum November 1998: 6-10. ASL File #: AWARD 9

UNLV Architecture Studies Library holds:  Project Team Members Form. ASL File #:  LVA(F) HCA 10

AIA Nevada Design Awards (1998)     Entry No. 98NVU217, Nevada Honor Award. UNLV Architecture Studies Library holds: entry form, model photos, plans, drawings, slides, 10 Years of Excellence in Design Boards

*This project won a 1998 AIA Nevada Honor Award in the Unbuilt category and a 2004 AIA California Council Merit Award.

Information and image(s) also available on ASL's self guided architectural driving tours:
http://www.library.unlv.edu/arch/lasvegas/downtown01b.html#004

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