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macau hotel estoril the first casino resort in macau macau sar china 18 february 2021papa osmubal related video httpswww youtube comwatchvaPEjJSbSRwU info A Futurist Woman a Defunct Casino and a Fight for Macaus Soul By Mike Ives Sept 11 2017 from The New York Times httpswww nytimes com20170911worldasiamacau casino mosaic hotel estoril html MACAU What will become of Lady Luck In 2015 officials in Macau announced that they planned to redevelop the 1962 Hotel Estoril the former Portuguese colonys first modern style casino resort which features a mosaic on its concrete facade depicting Fortuna the Roman goddess of chance But the redevelopment plan has been stalled for two years mostly because of opposition from young activists And the fate of the hotel has prompted an unusually acrimonious debate over which sites best represent Macaus history and identity and which are worth preserving amid a recent flurry of urban redevelopment projects Theres a general sentiment that Macau has changed too fast in the past 10 15 years a period in which the construction of several enormous casino resorts has transformed the citys skyline and character said Sulu Sou 26 the vice president of the New Macau Association one of the civic groups that is fighting to save the Estoril and its mosaic The Estoril and other unprotected sites that face redevelopment in Macau were very important in our childhood Mr Sou added And thats why a lot of young people feel a sense of urgency about them being lost The Estoril was built for Stanley Ho the tycoon who helped make Macau a city on the southern coast of China that returned to Chinese rule in 1999 into the worlds largest gambling market Neither the building nor its mosaic is among Macaus 22 officially recognized historic sites Some prominent architects say demolishing the hotel would be just fine because they do not see much artistic or historic value in the structure which has been abandoned since the 1990s and has weeds and wildflowers growing in its mildewed crevices The hotel was designed by a Macau born Portuguese architect Alfredo Victor Jorge lvares The mosaic which overlooks Tap Seac Square and Macaus historic center was designed by Oseo Acconci a builder and sculptor from Italy who moved to the city in the 1940s Mr Acconcis work is emblematic of Italian Futurism an artistic movement that emphasized geometric abstraction A local magazine described his rendering of Fortuna as Macaus Futurist Woman The Estoril site which included restaurants and a municipal swimming pool marked a transition in Macau from opium filled gambling dens to the kind of integrated casino resorts that are common now said Melody Lu a sociology professor at the University of Macau who studies gambling in Asia Ms Lu said some Macau residents felt an emotional connection to the Estoril because it was the first touch of modernity they experienced after arriving from the Chinese mainland in the years after the 1949 Communist revolution Some younger residents have seized on the Estoril she added as an expression of the Chinese experience here a heritage they argue is obscured by the attention the government pays to Macaus colonial past But the Estoril is not universally admired A local teachers union for example has criticized the mosaic in which Fortunas midriff and pelvic area are obscured respectively by a red shawl and a green leaf as lewd Alexis Tam Macaus secretary for social affairs and culture told reporters in 2015 that after meeting with educators and civic groups he felt it would be inappropriate to retain the mosaic if the government carried out a plan to replace the hotel with a youth recreation center and performance spaces for the Macau Conservatory The Estoril has also been criticized by Docomomo Macau a nonprofit organization that presses for the preservation of some of the citys Modernist structures Rui Leo an architect and the groups chairman called the Estoril a huge mess partly because it sits awkwardly in a crowded lot and is visually unappealing The government initially planned to hire lvaro Siza a renowned Portuguese architect to design the replacement for the Estoril Mr Leo who supported that plan said this would have raised the citys architectural profile But officials appeared to suspend the project after Root Planning a Macau organization devoted to heritage preservation petitioned them to reconsider Hoi Ian Lei 34 an urban planner and a co founder of Root Planning said her group did not ask the government to preserve the building per se but merely to conduct a full heritage assessment of it as a matter of procedural justice We are extremely concerned about the preservation policies for modern architecture in Macau she said
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