{"id":41,"date":"2010-08-13T15:21:20","date_gmt":"2010-08-13T15:21:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.faultorfeature.com\/?p=41"},"modified":"2010-08-13T15:21:20","modified_gmt":"2010-08-13T15:21:20","slug":"why-did-vegas-luxor-casino-use-a-stupid-pyramid-design-when-90-of-the-building-is-empty-air-conditioned-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.faultorfeature.com\/?p=41","title":{"rendered":"Why did Vegas Luxor casino use a stupid pyramid design when 90% of the building is empty air conditioned space?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><i>Question by shoreke<\/i>: Why did Vegas Luxor casino use a stupid pyramid design when 90% of the building is empty air conditioned space?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Best answer:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><i>Answer by UrbanPhotos<\/i><br \/>Maybe the empty space design was more cost effective or is energy efficient in some way compared to the standard practice of constructing ceilings and floors in between every level?<\/p>\n<p>I think it&#8217;s more likely that whoever paid for the project just wanted a pyramid and didn&#8217;t care about anything else. Luxor was built for 5 million, which is cheap compared to what newer resorts cost (Wynn was .7 billion, Encore was .3 billion.)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Add your own answer in the comments!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question by shoreke: Why did Vegas Luxor casino use a stupid pyramid design when 90% of the building is empty air conditioned space? Best answer: Answer by UrbanPhotosMaybe the empty space design was more cost effective or is energy efficient in some way compared to the standard practice of constructing ceilings and floors in between [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[143,141,145,11,144,140,142,146,19,139],"class_list":["post-41","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stupid-design","tag-building","tag-casino","tag-conditioned","tag-design","tag-empty","tag-luxor","tag-pyramid","tag-space","tag-stupid","tag-vegas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.faultorfeature.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.faultorfeature.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.faultorfeature.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faultorfeature.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faultorfeature.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.faultorfeature.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.faultorfeature.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faultorfeature.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faultorfeature.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}