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> I am having trouble seeing the 4-6 windows combined from the photos of the Bellagio. The close up does not help. You can see it better in this high-res photo
by pimlottc 4y ago
> I am having trouble seeing the 4-6 windows combined from the photos of the Bellagio. The close up does not help.
You can see it better in this high-res photo from Wikimedia Commons [0]. Each of the square windows appears to span four rooms on two floors, while the lower floor rectangular windows appear to span three floors, making it six rooms.
0: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bellagio_hotel.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bellagio_hotel.jpg
- treis 4y agoDo the windows span multiple floors?
- bonsaibilly 4y agoYeah. What looks like 1 window from the outside is actually 4 windows for four rooms, two below and two above. The scale is hard to get a sense of but those subwindows are quite wide floor-to-ceiling windows in each of those rooms (at least in Treasure Island’s case; I’d assume others are similar). That’s why it shrinks the apparent visual scale of the hotel, which has twice as many floors and twice as many rooms per floor as it seems from the “window” frames outside.
- ghaff 4y agoA lot of things about the Strip in Vegas, deliberately or not, really throw your sense of scale off. "Oh it's just the next hotel over, how far can it be?" A ways it turns out.
- adamm255 4y agoTotally. “Ah just over there no problem”. 30 minutes later…
- mynameisvlad 4y agoThat is the absolute worst. You walk halfway there and it looks exactly as far away as when you started. We watched Penn and Teller at the Rio. You look at a map, see its a block over from the strip, no problem. You walk out your hotel room and see the giant Rio sign, totally fine look how close it is! 20 minutes later you stare in horror at the same sign wondering how it hasn't gotten an inch closer to you.
- ehnto 4y agoI had the exact opposite experience in really dense cities funnily, you look at a map and see dozens of streets between you and where you're going, and it seems like it's half a city away. In reality it's just a 15 minute walk.
- mikepurvis 4y agoHad this experience recently in Kyoto, where it was amazing how "far" you could walk in 20-30 minutes, in a city designed for walking.
- mynameisvlad 4y agoYeah, depends on what you're used to. I've grown up in fairly dense cities so I was not expecting the density of the strip. It doesn't help that there's nothing in between the Rio and the rest of the strip. I've gone up and down the strip before and there's at least things to keep you occupied for those distances. But seeing nothing but that stupid sign is hell.
- LorenPechtel 4y agoHow are you getting "a block over" from the map? Just because almost no streets go through there doesn't make it a block! The strip hotels, especially those on the west side, are several blocks deep (counting their parking lots) themselves, then there's a dead zone of the freeway, then the multiple blocks of the Rio. There's little room there for practical streets although in most places there's one street behind the casinos.
- User23 4y agoI always blow away my step goal in Vegas, and that's even though I spend at least 4 hours a day at the tables.
- Aeolun 4y agoIt’s quite easy to imagine if you combine the inside shots for the rooms[1] with the outside one. 1: https://bellagio.mgmresorts.com/en/hotel.html https://bellagio.mgmresorts.com/en/hotel.html
- jrochkind1 4y agoZoom in on the wikimedia commons high-res one (thanks for that high res link!), and then look at the balconies in the middle column of the building. See the door in the balcony? Each of those four-window blocks is two stories high. Which means each "pane" is pretty big -- others have said each of those four-window blocks is actually four hotel rooms. The picture in the OP didn't make it totally clear, which left me wondering too, although I figured that's what they meant so it must be that way -- the fact that we have to look so carefully to verify it, I guess shows the success of the "illusion"!
- cratermoon 4y agoAlso there's only a balcony every other floor, again fooling the casual observer into seeing one floor where there's two.
- kerpotgh 4y agoThat’s so odd, so the floor above can look down into the balcony below
- globalise83 4y agoAlso handily enabling price differentiation and therefore improving profitability...
- nvr219 4y agoThank you!!
- canadianfella 4y agoEach of the square windows appears to span four rooms on two floors, while the lower floor rectangular windows appear to spam three floors, making it six rooms.
- pimlottc 4y agoYes, it's easier to tell in night time photos: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fe/Las_Vegas-5656_%28Bellagio%29.jpg https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fe/Las_Vega...
- ziml77 4y agoThank you! I couldn't see what the article was telling me I should from the photo the author used. This photo makes it very clear how the windows are designed.
- EdwardDiego 4y agoThat makes it far more obvious, cheers :)
- ChuckMcM 4y agoAnd a fun hack would be people on the upper floors making every version of a Tetris piece by turning on or off lights in the appropriate room :-)
- svat 4y agoYes. A comment on the post points to the TASS building in Moscow, which nicely illustrates this trick at a smaller scale: https://discovermoscow.com/en/places/dostoprimechatelnosti/zdanie-tass/ https://discovermoscow.com/en/places/dostoprimechatelnosti/z... — at first glance and from a distance it seems to have four floors. But it has nine, as is clear if you look more closely or compare nearby buildings (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c5/Moscow_TASS_3542.JPG https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c5/Moscow_T... is the same image).
- jeltz 4y agoYes, it is a bit hard to tell from his photos but obvious when you are there in real life.