Vdara hotel 'death ray' claiming victims in the Las Vegas Strip

The tall, curving Vdara Hotel at CityCenter in Las Vegas is beautiful. However, the south-facing tower is turning out to be problem for visitors at the hotel’s swimming pool. The curved mirrored surface of the hotel acts as a massive parabolic mirror that concentrates solar heat into a specific target area.

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"Unforeeseen and unpredicatable"? No, the result of bad decision making. It faces south, what did they expect? Clearly the appearance of the building was more important than the 'unexpected side-effects'.
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