From Las Vegas to the world
The Globe of Life
The first spherical landmark concept ever proposed for Las Vegas — published, documented and preserved in print, long before the technology existed to build it.
What it was
A monument to a hundred moments in human history.
65tons
A rotating globe
100plaques
Bronze, one per moment in history
6globes
One on each continent
61acres
Downtown, by the old railroad tracks
One idea, three chapters
A line that runs from print to a city
Each step rests on something that can be shown.
First
Published
Las Vegan Magazine puts the Globe of Life on the record: a 65-ton rotating globe combining art, science and technology, carrying 100 bronze plaques depicting 100 of the most important moments in history. Six globes were planned, one on each continent.
ART SCENE · Globe of Life · by Audrey Roberts
Then
Presented
A follow-up article describes the site: a vacant 61-acre dust patch by the old railroad tracks that people had started calling the Promised Land. Holograms circling the sphere, visible to anyone flying into the city. The magazine reports the project had been presented to the Mayor and the Art Commission.
ART SCENE · Globe of Life · the follow-up
Later
Built
In 2023, Las Vegas opens the Sphere — spherical, immersive, wrapped in light and visible across the valley. Two decades after a spherical landmark was first proposed for this city in print.
2023 · public record
Next
LVH AI Robotic City
The third chapter, and the one still being built: a destination merging artificial intelligence, robotics, entertainment and human experience into a living, intelligent environment.
In development
The record
It was written down at the time
Two articles and the magazine that carried them. Everything on this page comes from these pages.
The first article
Las Vegan Magazine introduces the Globe of Life. The 65-ton figure, the six continents, and a global grand opening scheduled for New Year's Day 2002.
The follow-up
The site, the holograms, and the Globe of Life Foundation — described in the magazine as a non-profit charity supporting world hunger and children's hospitals in Africa.
Las Vegan Magazine
Volume 4. The magazine for and about the most exciting city on Earth — published in Las Vegas by Simon Sahouri.
What the articles described
A future imagined before the tools for it existed.
Las Vegan Magazine described the Globe as a first-ever interactive three-dimensional encyclopedia — part sculpture, part virtual reality show, walking visitors through time. The magazine called the merging of the arts, science and technology in the project “certainly 21st Century, and perfect for Las Vegas.”
The magazine reported that the sculptor Lorenzo Quinn created the project, and that the Globe of Life Foundation was a non-profit charity supporting world hunger and children’s hospitals in Africa.
- A virtual reality educational journey through past, present and future
- Holograms and colour circling the sphere, visible across the skyline
- An interactive three-dimensional encyclopedia, accessible to all
- An amphitheater, sculpture gardens and an observation tower
- A memorabilia shop in the base, funding the sculpture's educational work
- Live interaction between the Globes on each continent
The role LVH claims
“As Publisher of Las Vegan Magazine, Simon Sahouri played the pivotal role of bringing the Globe of Life vision into public consciousness. He provided the platform, the voice, and the credibility that allowed the concept to be documented, published, and preserved in the cultural record of Las Vegas.”
Twenty years later
Today, as new spherical entertainment structures rise in Abu Dhabi and London, the world is witnessing the continuation of a creative movement that began in Las Vegas more than two decades ago.
The Globe of Life was the seed. The Sphere in Las Vegas became the first bloom. Now, cities across the world are cultivating the same architectural language.
This statement is not a legal claim. It is a recognition of visionary continuity and the evolution of ideas across generations and continents.
The next chapter
LVH AI Robotic City
A destination merging artificial intelligence, robotics, entertainment and human experience into a living, intelligent environment — architecture that is responsive, emotional and alive.
In development. Details will be published here as the project is confirmed.
The Globe of Life
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