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52-455: The hotel's 772 rooms include nine two-story "sky villas," three of which have private pools. 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 m (520 ft). Morpheus was developed by Melco Resorts & Entertainment , then Melco Crown Entertainment , as

104-472: A "launchpad for a global hotel brand." Melco Resorts & Entertainment contacted Zaha Hadid Architects (ZHA) to design the building in January 2012. Upon visiting the location, the firm found that it presented "an unusual set of challenges. First, the site offered a relatively tight 6,850 square metre (74,000 square foot) rectangular building footprint," and "the new superstructure had to be adjusted to fit

156-413: A corrosion protection coating and an epoxy fire protection ." The cladding panels "are coated with a colour-stable paint system that is baked on and binds to the surface." The hotel includes an atrium lobby which is 35 metres (115 ft) high, while twelve " beam-me-up-Scotty , glass-sided, panoramic lifts" overlook the central atrium and are "built to travel within the building’s figure 8" and provide

208-561: A dedicated spa treatment room. Among the nine, six have their own beauty salons and three come with private pools." The two-floor duplex villas cost around $ 11,000 per night. Writes the South China Morning Post , the three pool villas "take up almost an entire level of the hotel, each coming with an indoor plunge pool and entertainment room, and a private study and library, as well as a personal gym and spa." The hotel has event facilities and casino tables, an art gallery,

260-477: A gym, and the Morpheus Spa, which is reached after passing through a snow garden with simulated snow. The rooftop pool on level 40 has both indoor and outdoor connected sections. Apair of cocktail bars can be reached via the lifts in the lobby, and the hotel also has three restaurants and a pastry lounge. Zaha Hadid Architects was involved in the interior design of the restaurants on the 21st floor, as well as

312-515: A hotel casino at the City of Dreams , a resort which "comprises four other hotels, and a variety of luxury retail, entertainment venues and casinos" in Cotai , Macau . The hotel was described by the company as part of "phase 3" of the resort's construction, and is located on the last land parcel to be developed within the resort. Melco's chairman and CEO Lawrence Ho stated that he envisioned Morpheus as

364-680: A number of occasions. The artist inaugurated Hermès' contemporary art gallery La Verrière in Brussels in 2000 by transforming its walls with bold graphics, colours and his trademark stripes, and later opened the Atelier Hermès in Dosan Park , Seoul with his Filtres colorés , coloured panels that diffused the light to dramatic effect. In 2010, he created "Photo souvenirs au carré", a 365 limited-edition line of scarves decorated with silk-printed photographs. In 2009 Buren collaborated with

416-606: A piece consisting of boat races followed by museum displays of sail-canvasses, was originally created for a regatta on the Wannsee , Berlin, in 1975 and later produced in Geneva (1979), Lucerne (1980), Villeneuve-d'Ascq (1983), Lyon-Villeurbanne (1998), Tel Aviv (1999), Sevilla (2004), and Grasmere (2005). This work always has two separate parts. In the first, nine Optimists are fitted with striped canvas sails (white with red, blue, yellow, green or brown stripes). The two white stripes at

468-710: A popular French fabric motif – as a means of visually relating art to its situation, a form of language in space rather than a space in itself. Denoting the trademark stripes as a visual instrument or "seeing tool," he invites viewers to take up his critical standpoint challenging traditional ideas about art. He began producing unsolicited public art works using striped awning canvas common in France: he started by setting up hundreds of striped posters , so-called affichages sauvages , around Paris and later in more than 100 Metro stations, drawing public attention through these unauthorised bandit-style acts. In June 1970 he put stripes on

520-471: A set of nineteen black and white striped squares of canvas on a cable that ran from one end of the John Weber Gallery to the other, out the window to a building on the other side of West Broadway and back. Nine pieces were inside the gallery and nine outside; a middle piece, which connected the outside and the inside parts of the installation, was placed half-in and half-out in the opening where

572-401: A site already with foundations." The ultimate design was inspired by Chinese jade artifacts , with a twisting exoskeleton supporting two towers and multiple skybridges . Explained the architects, "one of the initial references we used was the carving out of the jade. The idea of the exoskeleton came soon after... to be able to free as much as possible of the interior layout." Construction on

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624-583: A striped support. He has since presented his environmental installations worldwide. By the 1970s and 1980s he was exhibiting in Europe, America and Japan. Buren wished to take part in Harald Szeemann 's exhibition "When Attitudes Become Form", in Bern in 1969, without being invited. Two of the contributing artists offered him space, but he instead set about covering billboards in the city with his stripes. He

676-468: A view of Macau. According to the South China Morning Post , the atrium has "walls and reception bristling with white and silver faceted marble, and decorated with Hadid’s sleek white Nekton stools." To the right of the atrium is a "domed" Morpheus lounge, and connected to the lobby are luxury boutiques stocking various lines instead of a single designer label. Interiors of the hotel rooms were designed by Peter Remedios, also known for designing interiors at

728-837: Is a French conceptual artist , painter, and sculptor. He has won numerous awards including the Golden Lion for best pavilion at the Venice Biennale (1986), the International Award for best artist in Stuttgart (1991) and the prestigious Premium Imperiale for painting in Tokyo in 2007. He has created several world-famous installations, including "Les Deux Plateaux"(1985) in the Cour d'honneur of the Palais-Royal, and

780-550: Is an Eighties video game made real." Morpheus and all other Melco Resorts properties were sold out for the lunar new year holidays by January 2019. Starting in June 2019, Morpheus' 23rd floor was made open to the public for five months for its Art Macao exhibit, with pieces by artists such as KAWS and Daniel Buren on display. In April 2020, all 24 casino hotels operating in Macau, including Morpheus, were available for booking for

832-506: Is constructed to allow the most light into each room as possible. Forbes Travel Guide in February 2019 called it an "engineering masterpiece as the world’s first free-form tower sporting a complex exoskeleton." The hotel was constructed as two towers supported by the exoskeleton, while "skybridges create three distinctive visual 'voids' or spaces. The mesh-like exoskeleton curves around these skybridges." The structural geometric grid of

884-574: Is the "scene of production" as a way of presenting art and highlighting facture (the process of 'making' rather than for example, mimesis or representation of anything but the work itself). The work is site-specific installation , having a relation to its setting in contrast to prevailing ideas of an autonomous work of art. He graduated from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Métiers d'Art in Paris, in 1960. He began painting in

936-673: The Opéra-Théâtre de Metz Métropole on the occasion of the opening of the Centre Pompidou-Metz . That writing is an important activity for Buren is made particularly clear in his collected texts Les Écrits , published in 1991 and then in 2012. Buren had his first important solo exhibition at the Galleria Apollinaire in Milan in 1968, where he blocked the only entrance to the gallery, a glass door, with

988-661: The ADA – Aktionen der Avantgarde . Initially presented in Genazzano in 1982, as part of a group project called La zattera di Babele ("The Raft of Babel "), Couleurs superposées (Layered colours) is an hour-long public performance , during which paper is pasted up and then torn down. For forty minutes, five actors paste striped colored paper on the wall, according to the artist's instructions. The white stripes must be exactly aligned. The spectators see colours and shapes appearing and disappearing as successive layers are added. Then for

1040-561: The BMPT , whose intention was to reduce paintings to the most basic physical and visual elements through the systematic repetition of motifs . Often referred to as "the stripe guy," Buren also expresses his theme in paint, laser cut fabric, light boxes , transparent fabrics and ceramic cup sets . His stripes are displayed in private homes, public places, and museums worldwide. Since the 1950s he has amassed some 400,000 of what he calls photos-souvenirs , documenting his work and travels around

1092-812: The Golden Lion Award for best pavilion. Buren had major solo exhibitions at the Touko Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, in 1989, at the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris in 2002, at the Guggenheim Museum in New York in 2005, at Modern Art Oxford in 2006, and at the Kunsthalle Baden-Baden in 2011. In December 2006 Buren won the competition to make Arcos Rojos/Arku Gorriaka , a new major project for

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1144-585: The Labour Day holidays, despite lower overall booking rates in Macau due to the COVID-19 pandemic . The building is 160 meters tall with 40 stories above ground. Designed by the firm of celebrity architect Zaha Hadid , the building is named after Morpheus , the Greek god of dreams. The building was inspired by traditional Chinese jade carving in that "no two pieces on the structure are the same." The building

1196-629: The Mandarin Oriental in Hong Kong and the Four Seasons Hotel New York . According to Remedios, the interior design "aligns with the verticals but is sympathetic to the 30- to 60-degree orientation of the exoskeleton." The hotel's 772 rooms are a mix of standard guest rooms and suites. There are also nine invitation-only "sky villas," which according to Forbes Travel Guide , all "include 24-hour butler service and

1248-617: The Metaverse platform. The firm had in the 2020s turned to artificial intelligence to help in the design of workplaces; the firm created a dedicated internal unit called ZHAI (Zaha Hadid Analytics + Insights) to address AI utilization, something uncommon among peer firms. Jury Winner for Best Large Firm Jury Winner for Architecture + Concrete: Striatus 3D Printed Bridge (Venice, Italy) Daniel Buren Daniel Buren (born 25 March 1938, in Boulogne-Billancourt)

1300-989: The Ullens Center for Contemporary Art in Beijing in "solidarity" with detained artist Ai Weiwei . The fifth artist ever to fill the space of the Grand Palais on the occasion of the Monumenta exhibition, Buren conceived Excentrique(s) in 2012, a giant cluster of colored, transparent plastic discs, which overlap to form a colourful canopy . 1960–61 1965 1966–67 1967 1968 1968 / 1969 / 1971 / 1976 1969 1970 1971 1972 / 1977 / 1982 1972 / 1974 / 1976 / 1978 / 1980 / 1984 / 1986 / 1993 / 1997 / 2003 / 2007 1973 / 2006 1975–1982 1975 / 1979 / 1980 / 1983 / 1998 / 1999 / 2004 / 2005 1976 1982 / 1983 / 1984 / 1985 / 2000 / 2005 1983 1986 Golden Lion for best pavilion at

1352-655: The Club Lounge on the 30th floor. A French patisserie, the Morpheus Lounge, is located in the hotel lobby, with the lounge's food also available on the room service menus. The 3rd floor contains two French restaurants, one by French chef Alain Ducasse . Alain Ducasse at Morpheus serves contemporary French cuisine . The hotel's Chinese restaurant Yi is on the skybridge of the 21st floor. Zaha Hadid Architects designed Yi with curved walls of "dragon scales" around

1404-668: The Observatory of the Light in Fondation Louis Vuitton. He is one of the most active and recognised artists on the international scene, and his work has been welcomed by the most important institutions and sites around the world. Sometimes classified as a Minimalist , Buren is known best for using regular, contrasting colored stripes in an effort to integrate visual surface and architectural space, notably on historical, landmark architecture. Among his primary concerns

1456-576: The Storm , 2005), and even beaches ( Le Vent soufle où il veut , 2009). For Green and White Fence (1999/2001) Buren installed a functional fence sculpture, consisting of fence posts at four-meter intervals, painted green and white 87-millimeter stripes along a single ridge line: Since the first part's installation, the artist's theme has been extended until, over time, it will become the only form of fence on Gibbs Farm in New Zealand. In 2004, for

1508-543: The United Kingdom, 'Diamonds and Circles' permanent works 'in situ', a work for Art on the Underground on the walls of the expanded ticket hall at Tottenham Court Road . From 1966 to '67, Buren and the other BMPT artists staged a series of performances they called manifestations , in which the group made or exhibited their work in public as a critical encounter with audiences. Voile/Toile – Toile/Voile ,

1560-543: The building began in 2014. To fabricate the exoskeleton, structural steel plates were welded into unique shapes at a shipbuilding facility in Guangdong , "where workers were familiar with large, curved structures. To minimise welding on-site, the factory assembled one member with each node before transporting them by road." The name Morpheus was announced at a name-unveiling event in November 2016, at which point construction

1612-448: The collective Ensemble(s) La Ligne created by RCP Design Global agency, with, among others, Louis Dandrel and Roger Tallon to create Curseur (2009–2013). It is a work in situ – for Tours Tram – three black and white stripes vertically, which will join the same horizontal marking on the ground, both at right angles to the doors' opening. Trainsets shaped cursor with " mirror effect" identified in black and white stripes . In 2014,

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1664-483: The death of "starchitect" Hadid, Patrik Schumacher became head of the firm, yet had to pay for use of the former business partners name at the time with a staff of 400, mostly free labour of interns sourced from teaching positions occupied by senior staff, with 36 projects across 21 countries. In the early 2020s, the firm designed a virtual city, Liberland Metaverse, based on the Liberland micronation and hosted on

1716-539: The early 1960s. However, by 1965 – a year he spent in the Grapetree Bay Hotel on the Caribbean island of Saint Croix where he was contracted to make frescoes – he had abandoned traditional painting for the 8.7 cm-wide vertical stripes, which alternated between white and one color, which have become his signature. Working on-site, he strives to contextualise his artistic practice using the stripe –

1768-487: The edges are covered with white paint. The boats then race in a regatta. In the second part, after the race, the sails are exhibited in a museum in the city where the regatta was held. They are presented in the order they crossed the finishing line, from one to nine and from left to right, as befits the exhibition area. In 1973 and 1974 Daniel Buren, performs with Jannis Kounellis , Wolf Vostell and other artists in Berlin at

1820-485: The exoskeleton takes on gravitational and lateral loads and reduces the need for internal columns, allowing for large open areas inside the hotel. The first building in Asia without a singular internal column, the South China Morning Post describes two primary structural components: "Firstly, two reinforced concrete cores extend the full height of the structure. From these, the floor beams stretch to

1872-453: The front and back of Los Angeles bus benches without permission. In another controversial gesture he blocked the entrance of the gallery with stripes of his first solo exhibition . Expanding on this idea, in 1971 he created a six-foot banner, Peinture-Sculpture , to divide the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum 's rotunda in New York. For his first New York City solo show in 1973, Buren suspended

1924-720: The globe. From 1960 on, Buren designed a number of permanent site-specific installations in the United States, Belgium, France, and Germany. In 1986 he created a 3,000-square-meter sculpture in the great courtyard of the Palais Royal , in Paris: Les Deux Plateaux , more commonly referred to as the Colonnes de Buren ("Buren's Columns"). This provoked an intense debate over the integration of contemporary art and historic buildings. In 1993, Buren

1976-439: The hotel as "fabulously futuristic," writing that entering the lobby felt like walking onto the set of 2001: A Space Odyssey . "The vast white marble floor is blinding. In front of and behind me are gigantic walls of pale gold, tented with massive pyramids of metal pointing outwards, like an unravelled Moroccan lamp. Left and right is a fleet of glass lifts — diamond-shaped with bleeping lights — skimming up and down two towers; it

2028-838: The iconic Puente de La Salve bridge next to the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao while, in February 2007, the Musée Fabre in Montpellier re-opened with a new permanent commission. For the 52nd Venice Biennale, Buren created a new site-specific work for the Giardini of the Italian Pavilion, and was curator of Sophie Calle 's contribution to the French Pavilion. In 2011, he decided to cancel an exhibition at

2080-498: The launch, PhilStar Global writes that "two sets of elevators on each tower stopped operations to accommodate live musicians." A contemporary art gallery on the 23rd floor, Art on 23, opened its installations on June 15 as well, with participating artists such as Kaws . Telegraph gave it a 9/10 expert rating, stating "Zaha Hadid’s design demands a new listing in architecture’s lexicon." The Times in December 2018 reviewed

2132-521: The museum-gallery system while at the same time growing in hot demand to show via the same system. In the late 1960s he connected to the ideas of space and presentation arising through deconstructionist philosophies that had as their background the May 1968 student demonstrations in France . Between 1966 and 1967, he joined forces with fellow artists Olivier Mosset , Michel Parmentier, and Niele Toroni to form

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2184-504: The new hotel could still "contribute up to 40 percent in revenue growth" for City of Dreams. In May 2018, Melco Resorts announced that the hotel tower would not use casino junket operators to bring in VIP clients. Ho instead asserted that the hotel would target the premium mass market , a segment comprising "big spenders that are not focused solely on gambling." The overall project cost USD $ 1.1 billion. The hotel opened on June 15, 2018. For

2236-619: The occasion of the opening of the French cultural year in China, Buren exhibited in his in situ installation De l'azur au Temple du Ciel (From the sky to Temple of Heaven) at Temple of Heaven in Beijing. A Rainbow in the Sky (2009) consisted of thousands of colorful pennant flags hovering over a busy pedestrian square in Pasadena, California for two months. Buren collaborated with Hermès on

2288-584: The opening, the banner was removed. Buren was later invited to participate in the Documentas 5 through 7 (1972–1982). In 1986, when François Mitterrand was president of France, Buren attained leading artist status after he created Les Deux Plateaux (1985–86), a work in situ for the Cour d'honneur at the Palais Royal in Paris. That same year, he represented France at the Venice Biennale and won

2340-591: The perimeter of the building, passing over one intermediate supporting column. At the perimeter, the floor beams pass through the facade to connect with the exoskeleton." The exoskeleton is constructed from "structural steel plates, tubes and rolled sections bent or made to a specific shape by cutting and twisting plates and then welding them together in three-dimensional jigs ." The overall construction used 28,000 tons of structural steel and 538,195 m (1,765,731.63 ft) of aluminum cladding . The aluminum exoskeleton has two layers of protective coating, "including

2392-510: The remaining twenty minutes, the actors, still directed by the artist, tear off the freshly pasted papers to reveal fragments of the previous layers. The spectators watch the evolution of work on a picture that is never finished and whose successive stages are recorded only in their memory. After the performance, the piece is destroyed. The piece was later performed in Tokyo, Bern, Eindhoven, Venice, Villeneuve d'Ascq, New York (2005), and Paris (2005). In 2009, Buren directed Couleurs superposées at

2444-535: The rooftop of Modernist architect Le Corbusier's Cité Radieuse building in Marseilles hosted an installation of mirrors and coloured glass by Buren. Défini, Fini, Infini (2014) was an installation for the Marseilles Modulor (MaMo), led by French designer Ora-Ïto, who in 2013 transformed the iconic rooftop into an international arts space. In 2017, Buren completed his first permanent installation in

2496-559: The twelve tables, which all face the windows "to allow guests to take in the surrounding mountain and garden views" and are spaced for privacy. Served omakase -style, the contemporary Chinese cuisine at Yi incorporates dishes from " Cantonese cuisine to Chaozhou , Sichuan to Hunan ." Zaha Hadid Architects Zaha Hadid Architects is a British architecture and design firm founded by Zaha Hadid (1950–2016), with its main office situated in Clerkenwell , London. After

2548-450: The window frame had been removed for the duration of the exhibition. In 1977 Buren cut up one of his artworks from 1969 and made a new work, designating that the sections should hang in the corners of a wall, whether that wall was empty, had doors or windows, or even had other artworks already hanging on it. As a conceptual artist, Buren was regarded as visually and spatially audacious, objecting to traditional ways of presenting art through

2600-515: Was arrested and had to leave Switzerland. In 1971, Buren devised a banner, 20 by 10 metres, with white and blue stripes on both sides to be hung at the Guggenheim Museum in New York in a big international group show, conceived to encourage artists to exploit the building's space. Other artists, including Dan Flavin and Donald Judd , protested that the banner blocked views across the rotunda, compromising their works. Buren, in turn, said Flavin's fluorescent lights colored his banner. The night before

2652-526: Was commissioned to design the work in situ, Poser/Déposer/Exposer, for the Café Richelieu at the Louvre in collaboration with Jean-Pierre Raynaud. Since the 1990s, Buren's work has become more architectural. He creates new spaces within existing environments such as city centers ( A Colored Square in the Sky , 2007), public parks ( La Cabane Éclatée aux 4 Salles , 2005), entire museums ( The Eye of

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2704-453: Was projected to be complete in early 2018. In 2017, it was announced that chef Alain Ducasse would be operating two of the restaurants at the hotel. While no new gaming tables licenses were granted by the Macau government , 40 existing tables were given allowance to be transferred from other Melco properties to the hotel's VIP casino. Despite the lack of new allocations, an analyst estimated

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