World Gaming Magazine

15 WGM #56 2018/03 wgm8.com Spectacle, the expansive epicenter ofMGMCotai stretching four stories high and the length of a football field, brings together thrilling elements from the natural world via an array of digital art and amassive indoor art garden. The aimof the column-free, long-span diagrid structure is to feel like it is alive by continually evolving and responding to changing conditions such as visitor behaviors, weather, time of day or season. This is partly achieved via 25 large LED screens with over seven hours of exclusive content featuring several UNESCO World Heritage Sites of China. The footage was compiled by a number of renowned artists with the goal of capturing and highlighting the beauty of the natural world. Complementing Spectacle’s digital art is the world’s largest indoor art garden, home to more than 100,000 plants and 2,000 plant species including more than 200 different orchid species, many of which are native to Macau and Hong Kong. Incredibly, MGM has brought several extinct plant species from the 19th and 20th centuries back to life using botanical garden seed banks in Hong Kong and Europe. Continuing the artistic theme,MGMCotai is alsohome to its ownartcollectionworthmorethanHK$100million.The300-piece collection includes modern and contemporary Asian paintings and sculptures by renowned artists, freshly-commissioned works by local and regional rising talents and large-scale installations, among them 28 Chinese imperial carpets dating from the Qing Dynasty that previously adorned the ForbiddenCity inBeijing.