Landmark Architecture Demands Landmark Performance

/ Elegant IG /

The Las Vegas Sphere is redefining the future of live entertainment and architectural innovation. As the world’s largest spherical structure, standing 112 meters tall and 157 meters wide, this visionary project by MSG Entertainment sets a new global benchmark for design, technology, and engineering. Every element demanded cutting-edge solutions — particularly the glass and facade systems.

A central feature of the Sphere is its revolutionary LED display system. The Sphere boasts the largest LED screen in the world: a 16K-resolution interior display wrapping the entire audience area and a 54,000-square-metre exterior LED screen — capable of transforming the building’s appearance in real-time. This scale of visual storytelling demanded glass and spacer technology offering the highest levels of thermal stability, durability, and visual precision.

To meet these extraordinary demands, project engineers selected the HB Fuller | Kömmerling Kodispace 4SG TPS®system — a next-generation thermoplastic spacer technology enabling absolute performance and maximum design freedom.

In Australia, this world-leading solution is available exclusively through Elegant IG.

Why 4SG?

The complexity and scale of the Sphere required materials that could perform under extreme environmental conditions, while also maintaining perfect optical clarity for the LED systems.

4SG delivered across every requirement:

  • Thermal Efficiency: Its low thermal conductivity supports energy performance, crucial in the harsh desert climate.

  • Structural Durability: The reactive nature of 4SG creates a bond between glass and sealant ensuring resistance to extreme thermal cycles, wind loads, and movement — essential for such a massive spherical structure.

  • Design Flexibility: With non-standard shapes, massive panel sizes, and dynamic curvature, the Sphere’s facade needed a spacer that could adapt. 4SG offered the flexibility and strength to enable absolute architectural freedom — critical for the media facade’s seamless transformation.

  • Visual Integrity: A clean, minimal sightline ensures the LED content appears flawless, both inside and out.

Supporting a New Era of Architectural Storytelling
4SG is pivotal in enabling the Sphere’s radical design. Its superior performance allows the dynamic LED surfaces to perform consistently across vast areas without fogging, gas leakage, or structural compromise — allowing architects and designers to completely reimagine the facade and interior at will, in stunning ultra-high definition.

Elegant IG: Exclusive Supply Partner for Australia
As the exclusive supplier of HB Fuller | Kömmerling TPS® systems in Australia, Elegant IG provides architects, fabricators, and developers access to this world-class innovation. Alongside product supply, Elegant IG offers technical expertise, ensuring seamless adoption into ambitious projects.

Elegant IG helps deliver solutions where absolute performance and design freedom are non-negotiable — just like at the Las Vegas Sphere.