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General Information

Completion: 15 June 2018
Status: in use

Project Type

Function / usage: Hotel
Material: exterior structure:
Steel structure
interior structure:
Concrete structure

Awards and Distinctions

2019 award winner  

Location

Location: ,
Coordinates: 22° 8' 59.10" N    113° 33' 59.59" E
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Technical Information

Dimensions

height 160 m
number of floors (above ground) 42
gross floor area 147 860 m²

Materials

exterior structure steel
interior structure reinforced concrete

Excerpt from Wikipedia

Morpheus is a neo-futurist luxury hotel in Macau, China that is operated by Melco Resorts & Entertainment. Opened in June 2018, TIME describes it as "the world’s first free-form exoskeleton-bound high-rise." It has a gaming floor, a rooftop pool, a modern-art gallery, restaurants, and 772 hotel rooms. Designed by Zaha Hadid Architects and developed by Melco Resorts for USD $1.1 billion, the hotel is the first building in Asia without a singular internal column and tops out at 160 meters tall.

History

Melco Resorts & Entertainment contacted Zaha Hadid Architects (ZHA) to design the building in January 2012. After construction began, the name Morpheus was announced at a name-unveiling event in November 2016, at which point construction was projected to be complete in early 2018.

For the hotel, no new gaming tables licenses were granted by the Macau government, but 40 existing tables were given allowance to be transferred from other Melco properties. The hotel opened on June 15, 2018. The Times in December 2018 reviewed the hotel as "fabulously futuristic."

Text imported from Wikipedia article "Morpheus (hotel)" and modified on April 20, 2021 according to the CC-BY-SA 4.0 International license.

Participants

Architecture
Structural engineering
Checking engineering
Main contractor
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  • About this
    data sheet
  • Structure-ID
    20077986
  • Published on:
    24/07/2019
  • Last updated on:
    24/07/2019
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