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Las Vegas Sands is doubling down on its commitment to bringing casinos to Texas with a new political action committee that is starting out with over $2 million to spend.

In its first report with the Texas Ethics Commission, Texas Sands PAC showed initial funding of $2.3 million from Miriam Adelson, Las Vegas Sands’ majority shareholder. She is the widow of Sheldon Adelson, a GOP megadonor and former CEO of the Sands. It already has spent over half a million dollars, mostly to help incumbents who were facing primary competition.

Texas has some of the most restrictive gaming laws in the country, but last year, Las Vegas Sands made the most serious effort yet to open the door to casinos in the state. The centerpiece of its proposal was to ask voters if they wanted to build “destination resorts” with casino gambling in the state’s four biggest metropolitan areas.

Source: https://www.expressnews.com/politics/article/Las-Vegas-Sands-launches-2-million-PAC-to-16979879.php

A guitar-shaped hotel tower, built by Hard Rock International, at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino resort, in Florida, US, is one of the biggest buildings of its kind in the world. The hotel project was part of a $1.5bn renovation and expansion of the resort. Announced in October 2017, the 3.2 million square-foot expansion plan included 13 projects in total.

The guitar-shaped hotel is a 450ft-tall, 36-storey building, with a floor area of 596,044ft². It incorporates back-to-back guitar-shaped structures, with guitar faces and necks.

The hotel tower added 638 new guestrooms, suites, and over-water cabanas to the existing 1,270 rooms. The average size of the guestrooms is 525ft². The tower also features up to 30 new restaurants, lounges, and bars.

The project also involved the development of 120,000ft² of meeting space to host banquets, corporate events, conventions, and private gatherings, as well as a 38,000ft² exhibit hall for industrial exhibitions. The meeting spaces offer world-class food and beverage options, high-speed Wi-Fi access, and advanced audio-visual technologies.

The hotel building also includes a 42,000ft² spa complex, featuring a 3,600ft² salon, and a 3,200ft² fitness facility.

Source: https://www.designbuild-network.com/projects/hard-rocks-guitar-shaped-hotel-tower-florida/

The team behind the installation of Museum of the Future reveals details of lights that bring out the beauty of the calligraphy! As much as the unique design of this building is important, its lighting plays a big role too.

“The role of lighting in the building façade was to highlight the calligraphy art and we amazingly achieved that task. It was a very proud moment for all of us to see the building lit up during the inaugural ceremony. We are part of the history now because we worked on the ‘Most Beautiful Building on Earth’,” he added.

“At this point, JTS connected the feeds to conduits that feed the fixtures power and data. The data cables are connected to DMX Controllers that enable the linear lights to be dimmed or turned off. The panels are arranged around the Arabic calligraphy of Sheikh Mohammed’s poetry and connected in such a way that it allows for specific segments of the façade calligraphy to be turned on or off in sequence. “

This allows for segments of calligraphy to be turned on, telling a story or a specific message when the museum is viewed from a distance.

“The first word that was lit up for the first time on May 22, 2019 for His Highness was ‘Mustaqabal’ in Arabic, which means future in English,” he recalled.

Chaliyil said 45 skilled technicians worked on the project for almost 35 months for the installation of the lighting. “We spend almost 54,000 man hours in the project. It was led by our senior project engineer Hazin Mohammed and supported by supervisor Sandeep Ajithkumar and foreman Vinod.”

https://gulfnews.com/amp/uae/watch-innovation-behind-14km-long-facade-lighting-at-dubais-museum-of-the-future-1.86039716

National Geographic magazine has included the Museum of the Future, located in Dubai, in the list of the 14 most beautiful museums in the world, calling it an architectural marvel. Currently, the museum is preparing for the opening, after which it will become a new world landmark.

The seven-story building covers an area of 30,000 square meters and reaches a height of 77 meters. Facade area of 17 thousand square meters. m is decorated with Arabic calligraphy by Emirati artist Mattar bin Lahej. The museum is connected by bridges to the Jumeirah Emirates Towers complex and the Emirates Towers metro station.

Source: https://whatson.ae/2022/02/heres-what-we-know-about-museum-of-the-future/

The new Grand Egyptian Museum looks absolutely massive! These images from the fit out are awesome, it's due to open at the end of 2022.







Sources: https://www.constructionweekonline.com/projects-tenders/261621-construction-of-grand-egyptian-museum-945-complete & https://haleysharpe.com/project/grand-egyptian-museum/

The Museum of the Future is to open in Dubai on February 22.

On February 3, His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum announced the date of the inauguration of the "most beautiful building on Earth".



According to the Dubai Future Foundation:

The museum combines elements of exhibition, immersive theatre and themed attraction, inviting you to look beyond the present to the possible.

Sources:
https://twitter.com/HHShkMohd/status/1489272489054248964/photo/1
https://www.dubaifuture.ae/initiatives/future-experience/museum-of-the-future/

An idea for floating cities is being supported by the UN to ensure future cities survive rising sea levels and extreme weather.

There is no plan for where these would be located as of yet but receiving a lot of attention in the news in various publications.







Sources: https://oceanixcity.com/

A £35m development with a hotel, golf course and hundreds of holiday lodges is coming to Fylde near Blackpool, UK. The major development will also feature a leisure centre with a swimming pool built off Garstang Road in Larbreck, around two miles from Poulton-le-Fylde.

Named Larbreck Golf and Leisure Village, the development is designed to become a “major tourist destination” and is expected to create 85 full-time equivalent jobs and add up to £2.5m each year to the local economy.

Source: https://www.lancs.live/news/lancashire-news/lancashires-vast-new-coastal-holiday-22651906

Sky River Casino is a $500 million casino project in Sacramento County off Highway 99 at Grant Line Road in Elk Grove. The casino will be located 15 miles south of downtown Sacramento and feature 2,000 slot machines, 84 table games and a 12-table poker room. Sky River is expected to open in late 2022.

Source: https://www.500nations.com/casinos/ca-sky-river-casino.asp#:~:text=Sky%20River%20Casino%20is%20a,to%20open%20in%20late%202022

Following their opening of The Goodtime Hotel in Miami Beach in 2021, musician Pharrell Williams and David Grutman of Groot Hospitality will partner on another project -- a hotel on Paradise Island in the Bahamas.

To be called Somewhere Else, the 400-room oceanfront resort is scheduled to open in 2024. The development is in partnership with Atlantis Paradise Island. The resort will occupy the current site of The Beach at Atlantis.

Atlantis Paradise Island consists of multiple properties offering different accommodation styles and is centered around Aquaventure, a 141-acre waterpark. The complex also includes the 14-acre marine mammal habitat Dolphin Cay, an 18-hole golf course, Atlantis Casino and restaurants from chefs Jose Andres, Todd English and Nobu Matsuhisa.

Source: https://www.travelweekly.com/Travel-News/Hotel-News/Pharrell-Williams-Atlantis-Paradise-Island