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Tight Controls, Flexible Designs Required to Build Hard Rock's Guitar-Shaped Hotel

To play guitar like a pro requires practice, practice and some more practice. The designers and contractors building the $1.5-billion Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Hollywood expansion are applying that same level of dedication to deliver the project’s iconic feature—a 36-story guitar-shaped tower.

Well before soil began to move, the team had to carefully consider potential cost, schedule and logistical challenges on a one-of-a-kind tower design. A mix of tight controls and flexible designs have been required throughout the project, as some final concepts are still in the works and new or updated ideas are regularly introduced. The construction team, led by a joint venture of Suffolk Construction and Yates Construction, heavily leveraged building information modeling to track schedules, costs, materials and logistics.

The 450-ft-tall, 596,044-sq-ft tower is part of a larger 3.2-million-sq-ft master plan that includes a new Hard Rock Live theater, an additional eight-story hotel tower, meeting room expansions, two garage improvements, pools, villas, a central energy plant and the remodel and expansion of low-rise buildings that house gaming and restaurant spaces. The entire master plan is scheduled for completion in advance of the 2020 Super Bowl, which will be held in Miami.

Steve Peck, associate principal at Klai Juba Wald Architects, says the guitar concept first took shape in 2007 while developing the master plan expansion of the Seminole Tribe’s hotel and casino campus in Hollywood, Fla. In 2006, the tribe acquired Hard Rock International, including all of its casinos, hotels, restaurants and memorabilia. With Florida now serving as home of Hard Rock, the team saw an opportunity to make a statement at the tribe’s Hollywood property.

“It became a signature piece of the plan to say, ‘We are the Hard Rock brand and this is the executive home base,’” Peck says. “We put together some different looks for the hotels. Some were pretty conservative—basically giant shoe boxes—and some were more daring, including the guitar tower.”



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https://www.enr.com/articles/46430-t...r-shaped-hotel