A Black-Glass Pyramid Beaming Light Over The Strip
A 30-story black-glass pyramid on the south Strip fires the world's brightest light beam from its apex each night.
🔺 The pyramid beam
The Luxor opened in 1993 as a 30-story pyramid of black glass on the south end of the Las Vegas Strip, fronted by a sphinx replica taller than the original at Giza. After dark, a xenon array at the apex throws the Sky Beam straight up, rated near 42.3 billion candela and visible to pilots long before they land.
Inside, the hollow pyramid opens into one of the largest atriums in the world, ringed by guest-room doors that follow the slanted outer walls, and the elevators climb at a 39-degree angle, called inclinators, tracking the leaning glass rather than a vertical shaft.
The rooms carry the geometry indoors, with one wall raked toward the point and windows that lean out over the desert. Beam, sphinx, and pyramid together make the Luxor one of the most recognizable silhouettes on Las Vegas Boulevard.
