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The 200-room Quaker Square Hilton as it looks today. After the recycling job was finished, the exterior walls of the silos were given a coat of acrylic latex paint.
GRAIN SILOS
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curvature in some places, shorter lengths of rail used with larger blades proved most efficient.
The work proceeded in sequence with cutting for balcony windows and doors the first step. Next, ironworkers put up steel rings and reinforcing rods to hold up the floors, carpenters built the forms for the floors, and concrete workers poured the concrete. As one story was being finished, cutting was going on at the next floor.
In all, the project was a complicated network of erecting scaffolds, deciding on the right diamond blade for the job, cutting, and removing slabs. With careful planning and innovativeness in modifying the equipment to fit the job at hand, 36 antiquated grain silos have been given new life as an ultra-modern and architecturally unique hotel.
The attractive brick-clad entrance to the Hilton. The silos, which once housed 1.5 million bushels of grain, now provide spacious hotel rooms in-the-round-24 ft. in diameter and about 50 percent larger than conventional hotel rooms. Each room has its own balcony.
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