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Old Posted Jun 16, 2018, 2:34 PM
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^ Considering how boring most suburban hotels are I think this is pretty damn funky !
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Hahaha, they're building this tower. I was having doubts if the developers would really go ahead with this. That's dang well interesting. Hopefully the cladding is as good as it sounds like it should be.
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Old Posted Jun 17, 2018, 3:58 AM
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nothing captures the true spirit of rock and roll quite like a building in the shape of an oversized body of a guitar built for a multinational corporation in the middle of some parking lots.
     
     
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Old Posted Jun 17, 2018, 9:28 PM
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The guitar neck should have been built out as an observation tower. Oh well.
     
     
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Old Posted Jun 18, 2018, 5:11 AM
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I knew nothing about this project until I heard about that poor woman who was recently eaten by a gator. Curious, I Google Mapped the park where it happened, and found myself doing some street views, and voila, somebody was building a giant guitar practically across the street- so I had to get to the bottom of it.

This could not possibly be more Florida of a story.

I don't mind it, I mean why not? At least it's not just another boring box. But watch out for the alligators.
     
     
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https://www.bizjournals.com/southflo...n-of-1-5b.html

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Hard Rock ceremony marks near completion of $1.5B hotel

The Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino held a ceremony where it placed the final beam at the highest point of construction for its new guitar-shaped hotel.

Hundreds of people, including civic, business and community leaders, huddled Monday morning in Hollywood to commemorate the $1.5 billion project's milestone. Years in the making, the expansion kicked off in 2017.

The beam featured signatures from Seminole Tribe members, politicians and construction workers, plus flags of the U.S., Florida and the Seminole Tribe, and a small tree, a long-standing Scandinavian ritual for celebrating newly completed buildings.

“A vision has truly become a reality as we place this final beam atop this iconic landmark,” Hard Rock International Chairman and Seminole Gaming CEO Jim Allen said.

The new hotel is 450 feet high and will have 638 rooms, with all rooms larger than 525 feet. The existing hotel, built in 2004, has 469 rooms and suites; a 41,000-square-foot spa; plus 60,000 square feet of retail, restaurants and nightclubs.
     
     
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Old Posted Aug 27, 2018, 9:41 PM
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First Glass Installed At Hard Rock’s 450-Foot Guitar Tower





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The Seminole Hard Rock’s guitar-shaped tower is getting a beautiful glass curtain wall, new photos show.

Installation began last month.

The 36-story, 450-foot tower is part of a massive $1.5 billion expansion at the tribe’s Hollywood property, including new hotel, casino and entertainment space.

The expansion includes:

A Guitar-shaped tower – which the tribe says is “soon to become one of the world’s most recognized landmarks.”
806 new hotel rooms, bringing the total to over 1,300
Casino space doubling in size with 3,267 slot machines, 178 table games, and 18,000-square foot poker room
A 10-acre pool complex
60,000 square feet of new retail and restaurant space
Rebuilt $100 million, 7,000 seat Hard Rock Live theater
Completion is scheduled for mid-2019.
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Old Posted Sep 29, 2018, 2:47 PM
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To lazy to extract photo, but as of 9/18/18: https://www.flickr.com/photos/miamib.../in/datetaken/


Also, a not as common perspective. This definitely stands out.

Some extra info from the photo captions:

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Massive at 450 feet and towering over Florida's Turnpike, the new 638-room addition to the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Hollywood complex practically belts out to drivers: HARD ROCK THIS WAY.


It's a big play more than a decade in the making. The hotel is the centerpiece of a $1.5 billion complex being built at the tribe's flagship Hollywood property, a project that will also include a larger casino and a new entertainment venue. The idea has been floating around since late 2006, said James Allen, CEO of Seminole Gaming and chairman of Hard Rock International.
     
     
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Old Posted Mar 30, 2019, 4:34 PM
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To long to post fully, but more in credit link. Regarding construction challenges and mechanisms.

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



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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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Old Posted May 8, 2019, 6:26 PM
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It looks so good. What a fun building.
     
     
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I hope the parking garage looks like a wah wah pedal.

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I hope the parking garage looks like a wah wah pedal.

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