Klai Juba Architects, which specializes in the design of gaming resort and hospitality projects—including high-rise mixed use developments—is a Las Vegas-based firm that maintains a presence in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
Since 1978, each of the founding principals of Klai Juba has contributed to the evolution of today’s resort properties on the Las Vegas Strip and has played key leadership roles in property development, construction, ownership and operations. With their fellow Klai Juba shareholder principals and associates and a talented team of project architects and designers, their collective experience and the team’s ability yields an unequivocal balance of design acumen and aesthetics, functionality and efficiency, budget versus pro forma, and an in-depth knowledge and appreciation of owner/operator programmatic requirements. Klai Juba has been recognized as a forerunner in the industry for more than 15 years.
The firm’s most noteworthy start-to-finish projects include Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino—complete with its Four Seasons Las Vegas and THEhotel—and the highly successful Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino projects in Tampa and Hollywood, Florida. Klai Juba is also responsible for the design of Indiana LIVE!, Eastside Cannery Casino Hotel, the Panorama Towers and SKY Las Vegas, and also lead the complex remodel and expansion of MGM Grand Las Vegas, Luxor, Hard Rock Las Vegas, the Orleans, Silverton and the newer Planet Hollywood properties.
Over the years, Klai Juba has enjoyed their relationships with and continues to serve significant players in the gaming industry, including Cannery Casino Resorts, CIRI Gaming, Coast Casinos, the Cordish Company, Edge Development, Hard Rock Hotel and Casino, Harrah’s Entertainment, Little River Casino, Mandalay Resort Group, Marriott International, MGM Mirage, Morgans Hotel Group, Seminole Gaming, Silverton Casino Lodge and the Viejas Casino.
Recently completed Klai Juba projects include the highly acclaimed new Joint, Vanity nightclub, guestrooms and suites at Hard Rock Las Vegas, in addition to well-known Las Vegas entertainment hot spots like Lavo at the Palazzo, Tao at the Venetian and Diablo’s Cantina at the Monte Carlo.
Recipient of the AIA Nevada’s 2002 Patron and 2004 Service Firm Awards, the firm continues to give back and sponsors the Klai Juba Lecture Series established for the UNLV School of Architecture in 1997, along with providing resources to the Klai Juba Architecture|Landscape Architecture Library at North Dakota State University.
For more information, visit www.klaijuba.com.
