This design-assist construction contract encompassed 680,000 square feet and included a 27-story hotel tower containing 304 rooms with a two-story glass rooftop penthouse shell space for a lounge and restaurant, 413,000 square feet of low-rise with a 113,000-square-foot themed casino, meeting space, spa, cafe, buffet, nightclub, steakhouse restaurant, food court, and back-of-house space. Adjacent to the casino is an oasis complex with six luxury casitas and private pools, beach entry pool, lazy river, Jacuzzis, and a wade pool. Also constructed was a parking garage for 1,780 cars and surface parking for 3,000 cars on Morongo's 44-acre site. The facility has a number of one-of-a-kind design features that add to its complexity including the resort's signature steel-framed entrance and the hotel tower's glass-enclosed two-story penthouse. The steel-framed porte cochere is shaped like a giant flower petal representating the forces of nature. Morongo's most visible feature is the slated curtain wall that caps off the hotel tower. The elliptical-shaped curtain wall slats at an eight-degree angle to the west. Crews installed four-foot by nine-foot glass panels to create the ellipse. Each piece of glass is held in place by an aluminum frame, which was individually engineered and fabricated. At the peak of construction, 1,300 craftspeople worked on the project, which was completed in 17 months, on time and on budget.