Melco Resorts' flagship $1.1 billion hotel Morpheus, designed by late celebrity architect Zaha Hadid, opened its doors to the public. The Macau hotel is named after the Greek god of dreams.
The complex comprises four other hotels, and a many luxury retail, entertainment venues and casinos. It features a futuristic design and is the first building in Asia without a single internal column. It is held up by a free-form exoskeleton frame.
The structure also has 12 lifts, a 35m high atrium-lobby space and two sky bridges on the 21st and 30th floor, the two towers are connected at the podium levels and at the roof.
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The hotel has 772 guest rooms, suites and villas, including three villas with their own private indoor pools, and six duplex villas. The hotel aiming to larget the ultra-luxury sector has two Alain Ducasse restaurants - Alain Ducasse at Morpheus and Voyages, a fine dining Chinese restaurant called Yi and the first Pierre Hermé Lounge on the podium level.
“Conceived as a vertical extrusion of its rectangular footprint, a series of voids is carved through its centre to create an urban window connecting the hotel’s interior communal spaces with the city and generating the sculptural forms that define the hotel’s public spaces,” said and official statement from Zaha Hadid Architects.