Hard Rock Las Vegas Tops Out

The Hard Rock Hotel and Casino Las Vegas has topped out!  Featuring a 660-foot-tall guitar-shaped tower, the final structural beam has been installed in what will be the newest addition to the iconic Las Vegas Strip.

DeSimone has designed the structure for both Hard Rock Hotel guitar towers—the other located at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Hollywood—cementing our role as the world’s leading experts in designing guitar-shaped structures.

Our structural engineers celebrated with teams from Hard Rock International, Klai Juba Wald Architects, Landry’s Restaurants, PENTA Building Group.

Pictured at the topping off (L-R) are: DeSimone Senior Project Manager Solomon Ives, PE, SE, Christopher McComas, Divisional Vice-President of Facilities, Gaming, and Hospitality of Landry’s Restaurants, Mike McLean of PENTA Construction Group, DeSimone Managing Principal Farro Tofighi, PE, DeSimone Associate Principal Eric Fenske, PE, SE, MIStructE, DeSimone Senior Project Engineer Sheng Ye, PE, SE,  DeSimone Project Manager Mahesh Thota, PE, and DeSimone Associate Matt Cummins, PE, SE.

Built on the site of the famous Mirage, the completed hotel and casino will boast a total of 3,660 rooms, 174,000 SF of gaming, 200,000 SF of meeting space, and a 5,000-seat performance venue.

DeSimone has completed the structural design and detailing for a number of Hard Rock Hotel and Casino projects, across the country—most recently in Bristol, Virginia, Tejon, and Texas—as well as other iconic hotels and casinos you can read about here.