Veer Towers

VEER Towers Courtesy Rainer Viertlboeck

Veer Towers

The wild slant of Las Vegas’s Veer Towers, designed by Chicago architecture firm Murphy/Jahn, evokes the drunken revelers in the streets below. The towers lean an astounding 5 degrees (the Leaning Tower of Pisa tilts just 3.9). A core of slanted columns hands off the load at the sixth, 19th and 32nd floors as the floorplates shift more than 35 feet across the 37-story height of the building. The result is an impossible-looking structure and, because the towers lean past each other, views from every room. It’s the year’s boldest example of a true partnership between architect and engineer—what Jahn calls “archineering.”