The Cloud at Fashion Show Mall

Located at the entrance to the Fashion Show Mall--one of the nation's largest shopping centers--the Cloud is its signature architectural piece. Hovering 128 feet above the 72,000 square-foot plaza, the Cloud provides shade during the day and doubles as an image projection surface at night for advertising and special events.

All of the Cloud's exposed steel was hot-dip galvanized...

The owner's objective for this project was to have a durable structure requiring the least possible maintenance. All of the Cloud's exposed steel was hot-dip galvanized, including 36-inch beams and the 30 cables connecting the structure to its hot-dip galvanized steel frame. A total of 412 tons of hot-dip galvanized steel was used to construct the Cloud, which is located in the heart of the Las Vegas.