Casino Grand Lisboa Wikipedia

Hotels near Grand Lisboa Casino, Macau on Tripadvisor: Find 15,496 traveler reviews, 50,145 candid photos, and prices for 3,628 hotels near Grand Lisboa Casino in Macau, China. Its casino and restaurants were opened on February 11, 2007, while the hotel was opened in December 2008. The casino offers 800 gaming tables and 1,000 slot machines. The hotel contains 430 hotel rooms and suites. The Grand Lisboa is the tallest building in Macau and the most distinctive part of its skyline. Distance: 0.0 mi. The Spa at Grand Lisboa. Opened in December 2008, The Spa at Grand Lisboa is situated on the 5th and 6th floor of the Grand Lisboa Hotel. Occupying two floors at the hotel and spawning 10,000 sq ft, The Spa offers state-of-the-art spa facilities and a wide range of innovative spa treatments for both female and male guests.

The foyer of the Grand Lisboa Casino showing decorative ceiling created using PVD coloured stainless steel in Vegas Gold by Double Stone Steel
Photography: Adam Nowek
Developer : Societe Jorges de Macau
Architects: DLN Architects & Engineers
Structural Engineer: Design Maunsell Consultants Asia Ltd.
MEP Engineer Design: Parsons Brinckerhoff Consultants Private Limited
Main Contractor: Hip Hing Construction

The Grand Lisboa Casino hotel, located at the northern-end of the Macau-Taipa Bridge, was designed by Hong Kong architects Dennis Lau and Ng Chun Man. The hotel, opened in 2008, is 856 feet high, has 430 hotel rooms over 47 floors and is owned by Sociedade de Turismo e Diversões de Macau. The Grand Lisboa is built next to a preceding complex built in 1970 by Stanley Ho, head of a gambling empire and the richest man in Macau.

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The Grand Lisboa Casino opened in 2007 and has 800 gaming tables and 1000 slot machines. It is housed in the podium at the base of the tower.

Architectural design

The tower is designed to represent the spirit of Macau through the use of a fantastical architectural style illustrating the opening petals of the lotus flower. The lotus is the official emblem of Macau Special Administrative Region.

To express the lotus shape, the tower has over-hanging floors on two sides.

The building is the 277th tallest in the world and the 155th tallest in Asia and was the tallest in Macau until the nearby Macau Tower was built.

The casino style is in an extravagant and opulent style as befits such a place as Macau. Housed in a podium dome the exterior is clad in 5,600 unique sizes of glass. Like the tower, parts of the dome are finished in 24 carat gold-coated glass.

The interior of the Grand Lisboa Casino is equally opulent. However, because of the structure of the interior ceiling decorative lighting bosses rather than gold leaf, gold PVD coloured stainless steel was used. The PVD creates a seamless match with the gold-leaf used elsewhere.

Everything about the design of the Grand Lisboa is to do with extremes – extreme height, glamour, opulence and over-the-top styling.

The man behind the Grand Lisboa

No less extreme is the life of Stanley Ho, polygamous and with seventeen children he is edging towards 100 years old and is the richest man in Macau. Up until 2001 his company, Sociedad de Truism e Diversoes de Macau (STDM), had a monopoly on all gambling in Macau which ended when Macau was handed back from Portugal to China.

After 2001 the big American gambling houses set up shop on Macau with casinos within enormous hotel complexes. Stanley Ho was not to be outdone and began work on the Grand Lisboa which cost around $385 million. His intention was that the Grand Lisboa would be the most luxurious hotel and casino in Asia.

Macau

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Looking at Macau itself one would say that the extravagance of the Grand Lisboa casino hotel is in complete harmony with the region.

Macau has the fourth highest rate of life expectancy in the world, ranks as one of the world’s richest areas and is completely urban.

The name Macau, meaning “Bay Gate”, is a territory on the western side of the Pearl River Delta in East Asia and has autonomous status. To the north of Macau is the city of Zuhai in mainland China and Hong Kong lies 40 miles to its east across the Delta. It is the most densely populated area in the world with 650,900 people living within 30.5 sq km which in 2016 equated to 21, 400 people per square metre. Macau was originally an island but a connecting sandbar grew to gradually connect it to the land mass turning it into a peninsula.

The Portuguse arrived in Macau in 1513 and created a permanent settlement there in 1557. The authority over Macau was Portugese from 1557 up until 1999 when it was the last remaining European colony in Asia before sovereignty was returned to China.

The unit of currency in Macau is the pataca and in the casino one can play with this as an alternative to the Hong Kong dollar. Macau still has its own language, Macanese Portuguese.

The tower and casino at the base of the Grand Lisboa. By architects Dennis Lau and Ng Chun Man

The tower of the Grand Lisboa designed to represent a blossoming lotus flower. By architects Dennis Lau and Ng Chun Man.

The Grand Lisboa casino exterior at night. Image by Heintges building envelope and curtain wall consultants

Grand Lisboa Tower

Casino Lisboa (Chinese: 葡京娛樂場) is a hotel casino in Sé, Macau, China. The casino is owned by the Sociedade de Turismo e Diversões de Macau (STDM), a Stanley Ho company.^[1] This three-storey complex was built in late 1960s.^[2]

The original casino and the 12-storey round hotel tower were built in 1970 by Stanley Ho, Teddy Yip, Yip Hon and Henry Fok. A 270-room extension was added in 1991 for a total of 927 rooms. In 2006, another extension, the Grand Lisboa, was built next to the current complex. Therefore, a total of 2,362 rooms are in place in Hotel Lisboa as of 2010. This expansion was partly done in competition with the newly opened Wynn Macau, located right next to the original Casino Lisboa.

Robuchon á Galera[edit]

Robuchon á Galera, owned by the late chef Joël Robuchon, has been awarded three stars by the Michelin Guide in 2008. Robuchon á Galera serves European cuisine such as roasted guinea fowl and foie gras from its à la carte menu.^[3] The restaurant has since moved to the top floor of the Grand Lisboa hotel and has been renamed Robuchon au Dôme.^[4]

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Gallery[edit]

• Casino Lisboa, Macau

• Casino entrance at night

• Macau - Grand Lisboa

References[edit]

The Grand Lisboa

1. ^Cohen, Muhammad. 'What Pansy Ho's Move On Former Macau Casino Leader SJM Really Means'. Forbes. Retrieved 25 November 2020.
2. ^Bharne, Vinayak (2013). The Emerging Asian City: Concomitant Urbanities and Urbanisms. Routledge. p. 114. ISBN978-0-415-52597-8.
3. ^Le-Min Lim. 'Michelin Hong Kong Gives 3 Stars to 2 Restaurants'. Archived from the original on 2012-10-23.
4. ^'Robuchon au Dôme, Grand Lisboa'. Grand Lisboa. Retrieved 24 July 2015.

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