Clark County Fire Station #11
Architect(s): Carpenter Sellers Associates
Address: 5150 S. Las Vegas Blvd.
Year: 1996

This 10,700 square-foot fire station is located on the famous Las Vegas Strip just south of the major casinos. To help establish its own identity, the building's façade features a large tower with signage, a long entrance canopy, and a bright palate of colors. As a nice detail, the canopy has a hole cut out of it for the flagpole to rise through. The project was intended to create personality and identifiable traits for this fire station. The irony is that this building has become a prototype for many other stations within Clark County. This project won a Western Mountain Region Design Award and two AIA Nevada Design Awards.

Carpenter Sellers Associates information:
http://www.csaarchitects.com/2003/images/projects/Civic/fs11/fs-1.html

County information: http://www.co.clark.nv.us/fire/station11.htm

Resources available in the ASL:Carpenter Sellers Associates (W. Rick Sellers , AIA; Architect; Interior Designer), and Mackenzie & Partners (Landscape Architect)

“AIA design news.” AIA Las Vegas Forum October 1996: 5-7. ASL File #: AWARD 10

“AIA local and state news.” AIA Las Vegas 24 November 1997: 4-9. ASL File #: AWARD 11

Kroloff, Reed. “The other Las Vegas .” Architecture 85, n.4 (Apr. 1996): 78-89. Includes photos. ASL File #: GEN 1

“NAIOP chapter inaugurates Spotlight Awards.” Las Vegas Review Journal month and date unknown 1998: 1M, 4M. ASL File #: AWARD 2

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

AIA Western Mountain Region Design Awards (1998) Entry No. 98WMR228, WMR Citation Award. UNLV Architecture Studies Library holds: entry form, photos

UNLV Architecture Studies Library holds: Project Team Members List. ASL File #: LVA(F) CSA 27

AIA Nevada Design Awards (1997) Entry No. 97B5, Honor & Student Choice Awards . UNLV Architecture Studies Library holds: entry form, photos, plans, slides, 10 Years of Excellence in Design Boards

AIA Nevada Design Awards (1996) Entry No. 96U12, Nevada Design Award . UNLV Architecture Studies Library holds: entry form, renderings, plans

*This project won a 1998 National Association of Industrial and Office Properties (NAIOP) Spotlight Award in the “Small-Scale Projects: Build-to-Suit (Public)” category, a 1998 AIA Western Mountain Region Citation Award, a 1997 AIA Nevada Honor Award in the Built category, a 1997 AIA Nevada Student Choice Award, 1996 AIA Nevada Award of Recognition, and 1996 AIA Nevada Award.

Information and image(s) also available on ASL's self guided architectural driving tours:
http://www.library.unlv.edu/arch/lasvegas/southlv05.html#004

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