Its lead architects were Aedas and HKS, Inc., who were responsible for its design, coordination and implementation. The main hotel tower was finished in July 2007, and the resort officially opened on 28 August 2007.
It is the second-largest casino in the world, the largest single structure hotel in Asia, and the tenth-largest building in the world by floor area. The 39-story structure on Macau's Cotai Strip has 10,500,000-square-foot (980,000 m 2) of floor space, and is modeled on its sister casino resort The Venetian Las Vegas. The Venetian Macao ( Chinese: 澳門威尼斯人, Portuguese: Macau Veneziano) is a hotel and casino resort in Macau, China owned by the American Las Vegas Sands company.
