--- --- Aug 22, 2018 # Morpheus Hotel Macau, China by [TIME Staff](https://time.com/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff  Jerome Favre—EPA-EFE/Shutterstock Designed by the late Zaha Hadid, [Morpheus](https://www.cityofdreamsmacau.com/en/stay/morpheus/index.html) is the world’s first free-form exoskeleton-bound high-rise: a grid of steel envelops 40 stories of glass with a fluidity inspired by Chinese jade carving. The interior is just as refined, with 770 rooms, a casino floor, high-roller facilities, a rooftop pool, a modern-art gallery and not one but two Alain Ducasse restaurants. —_Casey Quackenbush_ Morpheus Hotel Is One of the World’s Greatest Places 2018 ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Article","@id":"https://time.com/collections/worlds-greatest-places-2018/5366744/morpheus-hotel-macau-china/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/collections/worlds-greatest-places-2018/5366744/morpheus-hotel-macau-china/"},"headline":"Morpheus Hotel","datePublished":"2018-08-22T14:23:34.000Z","dateModified":"2026-03-02T23:25:56.698Z","description":"","url":"https://time.com/collections/worlds-greatest-places-2018/5366744/morpheus-hotel-macau-china/","keywords":["World's Greatest Places 2018"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb6c6bf687d91a2a1/6989384cfb4eac18978976f3/morpheus-hotel-macau-worlds-greatest-places-2018-36.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME Staff","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/time-staff/"}],"creator":"TIME Staff","articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb6c6bf687d91a2a1/6989384cfb4eac18978976f3/morpheus-hotel-macau-worlds-greatest-places-2018-36.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/collections/worlds-greatest-places-2018/5366744/morpheus-hotel-macau-china/","name":"Morpheus Hotel"}}]}] ```