Rafael Vinoly announces latest projects.

Rafael Vinoly Architects has announced several commissions, groundbreakings and most recently completed projects.

The company has been commissioned to design the 1,000-unit residential hotel tower with retail podium as part of MGM Mirage CityCenter, Las Vegas, Nevada.

In May 2005, RVA won a competition to prepare a master plan for the redevelopment of Oxford University's Radcliffe Infirmary site, a 10.5-acre area in the center of Oxford, England. The firm is also designing a new building for the Institute of Mathematics.

RVA is currently conducting programming and site selection study for Cornell University for a new 400,000 s/f building for the Computing and Information Science and College of Engineering Faculties in Ithaca, NY. The new facility will contain offices, classrooms, auditoria, instructional and research laboratories, and collaborative spaces over the next ten to twenty years.

Rafael Vinoly Architects is designing a new hospital pavilion for the University of Chicago Hospitals. The new project will help to implement the Hospitals' "Vision 2010."

Rafael Vinoly Architects designed Phase 1 and has been invited to design Phase 2 of Van Andel Institute Phase 2 medical research facility in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

At Penn State Life Sciences, University Park, Pennsylvania, the firm is designing the second Vinoly building on the Penn State University campus. The first was the School of Information Sciences and Technology building which was opened on 2004.

And, at University of Arizona Science Center, Tucson, Arizona, schematic design is underway for a 166,000-square-foot interactive learning center in downtown Tucson. The project houses over 20,000 net square feet of exhibit spaces in a building spanning Interstate 10 and the Santa Cruz River. A planetarium, observatory, giant screen theater and restaurant are located at the ends, on grade.

Recent groundbreakings include the Penn Medicine Center for Advanced Medicine Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where construction is now underway on a 670,000 s/f ambulatory care and cancer center designed in partnership with Perkins Eastman.

At Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio, construction started on a 590,000 s/f expansion to the Cleveland Museum of Art. Rafael Vinoly Architects was awarded this design commission via an international design competition.