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Harmongeddon: Where Does It Fall?

Local AP correspondent Oskar Garcia has a piece running all over the universe which discusses the difficulties involved in dropping the Harmon Hotel tower via implosion.

Numerous experts are interviewed, but none of them discuss the difficulties involved in each specific direction the tower could be dropped. For the sake of discussion, I've photoshopped five different scenarios to knock down Harmon. Doritos!

#5, imploding downwards with a southward spill, where the Harmon podium connects to Crystals would affect neighbors the least, but the danger posed to Crystals might be too great. 100-1

#4 imploding towards the strip onto the Harmon frontage plaza (which is going to have to be removed anyways) would cut off foot traffic to the south, Crystals, Aria and points south. They'd have to take down the pedestrian bridge that connects Cosmo and CityCenter.

#3 imploding into the Harmon/strip thoroughfare would probably be the safest but would require removal of the pedestrian bridge and would displace traffic for at least a coupla days as they cleared out the wreckage. Access to Cosmopolitan would be seriously impacted.

#2 dropping Harmon right onto Harmon might also be a good possibility, but it would potentially damage Cosmopolitan and most certainly impair access for almost a week as debris is removed.

#1 knocking down Harmon right onto its porte cochere is probably how this is going to work out. The risks of damaging other properties are relatively low and the debris field can be managed to remain on the CityCenter side of Harmon, leaving at least two lanes of traffic unblocked.

BONUS put enough firepower and jet fuel under the thing to burn it down right in its tracks, put a frame around the molten mass and call it "art".

"Lord Fosters Freeze" mixed media: melted steel and glass on concrete. ©2012 Jim Murren Inc.

Thanks to VT's resident architectural whiz blackjacker1979 for the #harmongeddon hash.

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