General Information
| Completion: | 15 June 2018 |
|---|---|
| Status: | in use |
Project Type
| Function / usage: |
Hotel |
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| Material: |
exterior structure: Steel structure interior structure: Concrete structure |
Awards and Distinctions
| 2019 |
award winner
for registered users |
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Location
Technical Information
Dimensions
| height | 160 m | |
| number of floors (above ground) | 42 | |
| gross floor area | 147 860 m² |
Materials
| exterior structure |
steel
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|---|---|
| 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
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Zaha Hadid Architects
- Zaha Hadid (architect)
Relevant Web Sites
Relevant Publications
- Morpheus Hotel in Macau. In: structure, v. 4, n. 4 ( 2018), pp. 22-27.
- (2018): Morpheus Hotel, Macau - a paradigm shift in computational engineering. In: Steel Construction, v. 11, n. 3 (August 2018), pp. 218-231.
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data sheet - Structure-ID
20077986 - Published on:
24/07/2019 - Last updated on:
24/07/2019
