Assignment 02 (A02): Designer Investigation Post 1 of 3

          DeRuyter O. Butler graduated from The Catholic University of Architecture and Planning in 1977.  During college Butler went to class and worked on an average of two hours of sleep five days a week.  Butler has been Creating billion dollar casinos in Las Vegas for about 24 years now. When he was 21 his mother died.  So Butler bought a house in Maryland where he cared for his two younger siblings, who were 4 and 13 years old.  The famous Steve Wynn, who has built almost every one of his modern casinos with Butler, said that they are connected at the hip.  Some of DeRuyter Butler’s hotels/ casinos in Las Vegas: The Golden Nugget, Mirage, Treasure Island, Bellagio, and the $2.7 billion Wynn Las Vegas.  He has also spent time designing others in New Jersey, Mississippi, and his most recent the Macau Wynn in China.  Butler’s Bellagio was jump started by the movie Ocean’s Eleven.  He has also designed a 40-Foot active volcano, a pirate-ship which sinks underneath a lake during a show where actors battle, a 130-foot mountain with a series of waterfalls flowing into a lake, and The Bellagio’s lake inspired by Italy’s Lake Como which synchronizes a fountain with music.

Google Images: This is a picture of the multi-millionaire designer DeRuyter Butler.

Google Image: The Wynn Las Vegas($2.7bil), built in 2005 the most recent Butler project built in Vegas.



Google Images: The Bellagio($1.6bil), built in 1993 with the Lake out front, inspired by

 Lake Como in Italy.

Google Image: Treasure Island($450mil), built in 1993 with the pirate ship out front.

 Google Image: The Mirage($630mil), built in 1989 with the 40 foot active volcano.

          Wynn has sold nearly all his casinos after he has built them, and along with Butler gone on to design some of the most glamorous gaming resorts in not only the U.S. but in the world.  Every one of these projects consists of architecture, landscaping and designing; all to bring visitors to another world where they can get away from everyday middle class society.  DeRuyter Butler owns 11 addresses in Las Vegas, Nevada and one in Del Mar, California.  

Sorces:

http://publicaffairs.cua.edu/cuamag/fall07/features/transporting.html

http://www.ratevegas.com/blog/2006/03/two_way_intervi_1.html