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MACAU BUILDING DEVELOPMENT

Lisboa Palace

Cotai, Macau

In February 2014, Global resort destination design firm WATG recently announced
groundbreaking on the Lisboa Palace at Cotai in Macau, for Macaus Sociedade de Jogos
de Macau, SA (SJM).

he complex will comprise three hotels: the five- retail shops, and 36,000 square meters of restaurants
star Lisboa Palace with over 1,450 rooms, the and entertainment. But the impressive scale of the Lisboa
TPalazzo Versace Macau with up to 270 rooms, Palace is by no means its most intriguing feature.
and a fashion-branded luxury hotel with the same The directors of SJM Holdings had a vision for the
number of rooms. The built area of the complex, totaling Cotai project: a masterpiece inspired by seventeenth-and
over half a million square meters and covering nearly eighteenth- century European royal residences fused with
7 hectares, will include approximately 27,000 square auspicious and positive traditional Chinese motifs. The
meters of gaming facilities, 34,000 square meters of result is an exuberant celebration of art and architecture
stemming from the two-way cultural exchange between
Europe and Macau.
"We are delighted to showcase Lisboa Palace of which
the concept and design embodies the rich history of Sino-
Western cultural exchange in Macau," said Dr Ambrose
So, SJM Holdings CEO.
The WATG team includes Perry Brown, Senior Vice
President; Tom Fo, Vice President; Ron Van Pelt, Senior
Vice President; and Sharmila Tankha, Associate Vice
President. The interior design of the Lisboa Palace was
created by Wimberly Interiors. Construction of the
project is in full swing.

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