The future of architecture or hideous abomination?
Anyone driving through Las Vegas this week may have thought aliens had landed. Looking like a spaceship against the skyline, the giant MSG Sphere was turned on for the first time, offering a show featuring roving eyeballs, spiralling galaxies, US flags and.. er.. Halloween pumpkins. You name it, it was in there.
The 366-foot-tall concert venue is being billed as the world's largest spherical structure. It doesn't open for events until September, but the exterior LED screen was turned on for 4 July celebrations, and it looks like this could become one for our pick of the bestThis is definitely going to attract more UFOs pic.twitter.com/5Mfy6aQgE2Even in a city that has dancing fountains and a half-scale replica of the Eiffel Tower, the MSG Sphere looks over the top. The 1.
Fittingly, the interior, which has a 250 feet high 16K wrap-around LED screen, haptic seats and machines to create wind, temperature and scent effects, will be inaugurated by U2, a band famous for light shows. They will open the venue with a mammoth series of 25 concerts from September 29., which has designed Olympic Games and Fifa World Cup stadiums, the 18,000-capacity venue cost $2.3 billion to build. It will be connected to the Venetian resort by a pedestrian walkway.
Bono told Apple Music: “Most music venues are sports venues. They’re built for sports – they’re not built for music. They’re not built for art. This building was built for immersive experiences in cinema and performance … you can’t come here and see an ice hockey game.” . I thought I was in a movie...#MSG #Sphere #FourthofJuly #LasVegas #4thJuly #MSGSphere pic.twitter.com/XkzJoq6Do0
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