Harmon Hotel in Las Vegas by Foster and Partners gets cut (and not due to the crisis)

And we just saw the news that the project got “cut”, but in a literal way. It wasn´t because of the economical crisis, but actually due to construction flaws: 15 floors of wrongly installed rebar. This forced the developer to cut down the height -removing the condos portion of the building- resulting on a 28 stories tall building, instead of 49 as planned.

But what´s funny is how the project was -at least on the exterior look, because engineers must been working extra hours redoing shafts, elevators, etc- just scaled down.

In related news (cuts), back in October Foster said recession will not force him to cut jobs, and now his office is going to layoff 300-400 employees.

Seen at: Adaptation or Disaster? – LV Sun

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Cite: David Basulto. "Harmon Hotel in Las Vegas by Foster and Partners gets cut (and not due to the crisis)" 18 Feb 2009. ArchDaily. Accessed . <https://www.archdaily.com/14825/harmon-hotel-las-vegas-by-foster-and-partners-gets-cut> ISSN 0719-8884

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