Hollywood Casino and Hotel Tower at Greektown

The Hollywood Casino and Hotel Tower at Greektown is a Contemporary skyscraper designed by Rossetti Architects, in association with HBG Design, and built between 2006 and 2007, for a reported $245 million dollars, in Detroit, MI.

Hollywood Casino and Hotel Tower at Greektown is not the only name you might know this building by though. The building is, or has also been known as Greektown Casino.

Its precise street address is 555 East Lafayette Street, Detroit, MI. You can also find it on the map here.

The building underwent a major restoration between 2017 and 2018. The architect commissioned to undertake this restoration was Rossetti Architects.

Rossetti Architects was the architecture firm in charge of the architectural design, in association with HBG Design. But there was also one other architect involved, as far as we know. We are talking about Paul Steelman.

The Hollywood Casino and Hotel Tower at Greektown can be categorized as a Contemporary building.

That being said, and even thought being a contemporary building, probably taking advantage of modern materials, construction techniques, and technology, the design of the Hollywood Casino and Hotel Tower at Greektown is inspired by the postmodernism style.

The facade in this case is non-load bearing, which means that it does not serve as a structural element, and therefore the architects had total freedom to work on its design without worrying about the support of the building.

From an aesthetic point of view, the facade features a blue-colored curtain wall that uses for types of reflective blue hues to create a sense of motion and represent the moving water of the nearby Detroit River.

At ground level the facade turns into a more massive brick wall base, that ties the building with the aesthetics of other, older surrounding buildings in this historic neighborhood.