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Wynn Twins

Encore Las Vegas and Wynn Las Vegas

Erected 2008, Encore is slightly smaller and a few years newer than circa-2005 Wynn Las Vegas , but it does not stand in the shadow of its structural sibling.
 Wynn Twins

The Sands Bridge spans Wynn Las Vegas and Palazzo Las Vegas and provides direct access over the Las Vegas Strip to the Fashion Show Mall.

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The top floor of Encore Las Vegas is numbered 63, but due to some fuzzy math -- no 13th floor, and no floors starting with the number 4 as the Chinese consider that unlucky -- it's closer to a 50-story structure.

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