Qualla: Macau Tower https://qualla.com/macau-tower en-us © 2026 Bendyline Thu, 23 Jul 2026 20:34:17 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/w/e/b/w/macau-tower-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Macau Tower https://qualla.com/macau-tower Macau Tower: Introduction https://qualla.com/macau-tower/ Photo credit T1NH0 (talk), CC BY-SA 3.0. Stanley Ho Hung-Sun was in Auckland, New Zealand, standing at the base of the Sky Tower, when he decided Macau needed one too. The story is not especially complicated — a powerful man saw something impressive and wanted it for his city. What followed was a $130 million construction project that started in 1998, produced a 338-metre tower designed by the same architect as Auckland's original, and gave Macau one of its two defining skyline silhouettes. The other is the Grand Lisboa hotel, which Ho's family also built. Together they stand over a city that has become the world's most concentrated gambling economy, anchored by structures that announce, from any direction, that Macau takes its ambitions seriously.

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]]> Fri, 12 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/e/b/w/macau-tower-wp/webw-macau-tower-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Macau Tower: A New Zealand Idea in a Chinese City https://qualla.com/macau-tower/ Photo credit 投稿者, Public domain. Gordon Moller, the architect who designed Auckland's Sky Tower, designed the Macau Tower as well. The engineering firm Beca Group, also from New Zealand, handled the structural work. The client was Sociedade de Turismo e Diversões de Macau, the gaming and tourism conglomerate con...

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]]> Fri, 12 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/e/b/w/macau-tower-wp/webw-macau-tower-a-new-zealand-idea-in-a-chinese-city.mp3 0:06 2 full Macau Tower: The Outer Rim https://qualla.com/macau-tower/ Photo credit Ellanor, Public domain. The observation deck is standard tower fare: views, restaurants, theaters, shopping. What made the tower famous in adventure-tourism circles is the outer rim. At 233 metres above ground, AJ Hackett — the New Zealand company that pioneered commercial bungee jumping — operates what...

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]]> Fri, 12 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/e/b/w/macau-tower-wp/webw-macau-tower-the-outer-rim.mp3 0:06 3 full Macau Tower: Cameras and Celebrity https://qualla.com/macau-tower/ Photo credit JyunWaan, CC BY-SA 4.0. The tower has attracted a steady stream of television productions over the years, drawn by the combination of height, spectacle, and a city that photographs dramatically. Anthony Bourdain bungee-jumped from it for a No Reservations episode. Jack Osbourne did the same for his Adre...

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]]> Fri, 12 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/e/b/w/macau-tower-wp/webw-macau-tower-cameras-and-celebrity.mp3 0:06 4 full Macau Tower: What It Means to the Skyline https://qualla.com/macau-tower/ Photo credit WiNG, CC BY-SA 3.0. Macau's historic center — the UNESCO-listed concentration of Baroque churches, Portuguese civic buildings, and Chinese temples in the old peninsula — is a place of low rooflines and cobblestoned squares. The Macau Tower and the Grand Lisboa operate in a different register entirel...

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