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STEVE MARCUS AND CHRIS MORRIS / LAS VEGAS SUN PHOTO ILLUSTRATION
The recent news that the Harmon hotel tower – which I’m now calling the Stubby Tower at Harmon – would shrink, Constanza-like, by 21 stories, begs the question: What should be set atop the project to fill out those 21 stories? See my colleague Joe Brown’s story from earlier this month, which I understand was not cut from its original size.
Maybe the Harmon could be topped by a combination restaurant/gift shop/haberdashery from country-fied entrepreneur Toby Keith. Maybe Steve Cutler’s long-latent Casino Legends Hall of Fame could work there. Resurrect the jai-alai courts from the old MGM Grand, perhaps.
As they say in Pocatello, Idaho, let’s mullet over. Submit ideas. Maybe the Cher keychain that went unawarded a couple of weeks ago will finally find an owner.
How to top the Harmon"I'd top the Harmon with a park-like setting. Plants; trees; benches; areas to stroll; and a bar, of course. And, in addition, an area where they are growing crops for the restaurants at the Harmon. And with that, you know what you'd have to call it: "Farmin' Atop The Harmon".
Carl Scheinwald
Anthem Heights
Henderson
LasVegasSuite@aol.com
I think they should have laser light shows that create a virtual tower that soars into the night sky, like a cross between the Bellagio fountain show and a Pink Floyd concert.
Simple, old school neon, 30 foot letter:
F A I L
if it helps me win the keychain.............how about a full body statue of Cher
The lamp from the old Aladdin.
I'm thinkin' it wold be appropriate to display a statue of Billy Barty atop a small Shetland pony. Sadly, most of the populace of Las Vegas wouldn't get the irony.
Or . . . possibly a sculpture grouping of the cast of "Fawlty Towers"? Again, it could well be a case of irony lost. . .
At the intersection of Las Vegas attraction, failure and irony, how about a Penthouse Prison where high profile celebrity 'guests' can spend their days and nights, while tourists pass by on moving sidewalks and buy tshirts and shot glasses in the gift shop.
The main emphasis now should be on identifying the causes of the constuction oversights that led to the shoddy constuction and late discovery in the lower half of the Harmon. The rebar flaws may be a potential safety hazard in these remaining floors of the building. I will leave it up to A/E Foster in London to determine how the Harmon should be redesigned to try and make the "stub" fit in.
There is no humor in this story. You got city inspectors who should have been doing there jobs-but weren't. The construction oversights in this story are not funny-they're scary.
gold1020--right on!
Star observatory and putting course
an empty 21 storey high space can be alloted to a park with wall scaling features and flying trafeeze gadgets for some exciting shows,while retaining the outside aesthetic finish to conform to the whole set up. It's better than having a dwarf in a basketball team
The front-runners right now are Gregory and ibcarly. That Billy Barty concept has, whaddyacallit, humor.
Flags of Perini construction, frying high over the city.
Well........ maybe not that high.
I believe the "construction defects" are a lame coverup for the fact that there was NO demand for the condo part of the building, and City Center is so far over budget anyhow that they must be thrilled to be cutting the building in half and save all that extra construction cost.
Something tells me that if they had lots of demand for those condos that this construction issue would either have never been discovered or that it would have been magically fixed.
Nice try, MGM. You overbuilt that beast of a project by a factor of four or five-fold. Oops.
Altogether appropos of the collossal scandal which is "CityCenter" including the hundreds of illegal out of state condo sales by the broker Robert Hamrick would be a 90 foot tall bronze statue of Booby Baldwin in the role of Dionysius and Hamrick as the horse-hair holding the Sword of Damocles over MGM's (Baldwin's) head.
Put Oscar's Mob Museum up there, with a wax figures of Steve, Sheldon and Terri greeting the guests...
They talked about having an indoor farm in las vegas. How about turning all 21 floors into a farm space and sell the produce to the casinos on the cheap
Hang on, the MGM execs already designed this as an attraction. It features standing on top of a building while the floors are crumbling beneath your feet, based on their site in Florida:
Disney-MGM Studios Rides and Attractions
"Twilight Zone Tower of Terror"
Looking at the illustrations above, and the angle which they were drawen, I like the shorter version better. If the Harmon had been build to 49 stories it would have blocked a structure behind and to the right of the Harmon. Also, now there is some character to the overall scene, not a group of high rise buildings. Again, my opinion is only a viewing from one angle and what do I know. Also, I fail to understand the concern folks seen to have about a building which no one has a financial interest in except MGM.
Maybe we could have side-by-side versions of the project -- Stumpy I and Stumpy II. But it might be too late for such a radical proposal ...