Eye-popping Vegas home offers luxury living at great environmental cost
A showcase home for the National Association of Home Builders is valued at $5.7 million. | Photos courtesy of Jeffrey A. Davis Photography
This year?s New American Home has great views of the Strip?and the building industry?s recklessness Each year since 1985, the National Association of Home Builders has constructed the New American Home, a showcase house custom-built to reflect the new residential trends that are most emblematic of evolving American consumer taste.
This year?s four-bedroom, five-bath home has two garages, a yoga studio, a wine-tasting room, a pool, a fire pit, and a kitchen divided in half by a retractable glass wall that opens to reveal stunning views of the Las Vegas Strip glittering in the distance. It?s valued at $5.7 million and will be used as a show home for the builder. In 2019, architecture critic Allison Arieff skewered the size and sprawl-inducing qualities of last year?s New American Home. Her New York Times op-ed ridiculed the excesses of the 11,000-square-foot Tuscan-inspired mansion in a Florida suburb ?with eight bathrooms and both an elevator and a car elevator in the garage? amidst the country?s affordability and climate crises.
Like that home, this year?s Vegas mansion is a study in contradictions. Slathered with solar panels, the home is net-zero?meaning that the 7,683-square-foot structure generates more energy than it uses. A slew of other certifications guarantee the home is, technically, resource-conscious, at least when i...
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