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Grand Lisboa
Building
Completed, 2008
hotel / casino
steel/concrete
258.0 m / 846 ft
48
4
433
338
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Construction Start
Completed
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Usually involved in the front end design, with a "typical" condition being that of a leadership role through either Schematic Design or Design Development, and then a monitoring role through the CD and CA phases.
The Design Engineer is usually involved in the front end design, typically taking the leadership role in the Schematic Design and Design Development, and then a monitoring role through the CD and CA phases.
The Design Engineer is usually involved in the front end design, typically taking the leadership role in the Schematic Design and Design Development, and then a monitoring role through the CD and CA phases.
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Other Consultant refers to other organizations which provided significant consultation services for a building project (e.g. wind consultants, environmental consultants, fire and life safety consultants, etc).
These are firms that consult on the design of a building's façade. May often be referred to as "Cladding," "Envelope," "Exterior Wall," or "Curtain Wall" Consultant, however, for consistency CTBUH uses the term "Façade Consultant" exclusively.
Material Supplier refers to organizations which supplied significant systems/materials for a building project (e.g. elevator suppliers, facade suppliers, etc).
The clear instruction from the client for this project was to create a property that is absolutely original, unlike other recent casino developments in the area which replicate hotels in Las Vegas, USA. Instead the tower is intended to embody the unique vitality and spirit of Macau. The boldly sculpted Grand Lisboa is the antithesis of the “veneered box” template that dominates contemporary casino development. The rich and sensual form of the tower embodies the daring and flamboyant exuberance of modern Macau.
The tower was designed with multi-level long spans of over-hanging floors on two sides of the building to create a lotus leaf-like building form, and an elliptical shaped podium encloses the main gaming floors of the casino. An inspiration for the feathered form of the hotel superstructure was the exotic head dress of a Brazilian show girl’s carnival costume, itself a reflection of the Portuguese influence shared by Macau and South America. The plumes also evoke a blossoming lotus flower, the official emblem of the Macau Special Administrative Region.
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