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1. Name:
Gameworks
2. Owner: {owner}
3. Address: 3785
Las Vegas Blvd.
3b. Additional Site
Details: Game Works is located
on the underground level of The Showcase Plaza, which is also home
to such establishments as M&M World and the Show case theatres.
Two small gateway pylons for the Game Works center, stand on other
side of staircases that lead to the underground facility. Just east
of there a large wall front design hands approximately nine feet
above the ground on the structure of the mall.
4. Condition:
Structure 5
Surface 4
Lighting 5
Notes: See
description
5. Form: plyon,
fasica
6. Specfic Description:
The large wall marquee that reads
GAMEWORKS in all capitals, utilizes deep, yellow, steel, channel
letters painted black on the exteriors. The slightly arched sign
is on the West wall of the building, facing West from the East side
of the strip. The interior of the text contains double rows of yellow
neon. The cabinet, which the words sit upon, is a black steel cabinet
shadowing the individual letters in one cabinet. The backing cabinet
itself is illuminated from its interior, with middle section of
the width of the cabinet is made of a steel grating. This function
allows the blue neon on the inside to cast a blue glowing halo seen
from the exterior. Sitting on top of the right hand side of the
marquee are two steel boxes manufactured into the shape of a male
and female figure dashing to the end of the sign. These figures
are made of black steel box like formations while retaining a cartoon-ish
silhouette. Their posture suggests motion or running. These figures
are constructed in the same fashion as the black cabinet, which
the text is supported upon. They too are glowing with the blue interior
neon halo. In front of the large wall sign are the two, single sided,
gateway pylons. They serve as markers for the stairs that lead the
underground facility. They sit on either end of the large channel
cut into the sidewalk. One faces South on the South entrance, and
one faces North at the North end. The signage is actually a smaller
replica of the large building front logo. The same interior lit
cabinet supports the same design of yellow channel letters, with
the backing "shadow" cabinet. A difference between the
larger and smaller cabinets is that the cabinets are surfaced with
the grated material. The only difference in the channel letters
besides their obvious discrepancy in size, is that single rows of
neon comprise the interior of the channel letters. On either side
of the sign, two, "space age" themed posts provide support.
They are topped with a sculpted cylindrical fashion capital. The
bases for which they are attached to the concrete with, are blue
in color. The actual shaft of the pole is made of several smaller
pipes, with a plastic cylindrical tube in the center. Inside this
tube is a string of attached incandescent bulbs running vertically.
Below the text, suspended with two rods, is an oval shaped, aluminum
cabinet. In the face of the cabinet there are the words "café"
and "lounge" painted in blue. Over the painted text is
blue neon. From both sides of the sign, the blue neon scrawl is
visible Separating the two words is a black circle with a red neon
rectangular shape in the center. The ends of the cabinet are made
small circular cabinets approximately seven inches in diameter.
7. Type of Display:
neon, incandescent, backlit
8. Media: steel,
plastic, fiberglass
9. Non-neon treatments:
paint
10. Animation:
none
Notes: n/a
11. Environment:
The Game Works facility is
located directly across the street from the pedestrian "Brooklyn
Bridge" element of the New York New York and sit is the shadow
of the MGM super pylon. The vibrant yellow of the sign do stand
out as distinct among the tremendous and attractive signage of the
Showcase plaza. The large channel cut into the sidewalk, along with
its large surrounding counterparts, makes the entrance reminiscent
of that of a subway. The plaza itself is self-contained and while
standing along the front a person is enveloped in the plaza without
being distracted by the rest of the strip itself. The large signage
looms over a pedestrian while walking by, or shouts at you while
sitting along the shrub filled flowerbeds. |
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