With its giant steel compression ring perched nearly 300 ft in the air, the MSG Sphere at The Venetian is putting on a Las Vegas show before the venue is even complete.
A DEMAG CC-8800, the world’s fourth-largest crawler crane, placed the 170-ton ring atop a steel shoring tower on Feb. 18. The lift marks a major milestone in the $1.66-billion project to build the 17,500-seat Sphere, begun in 2018 and scheduled to be complete in 2023.