Interior of a large, rustic-style bar or restaurant with high vaulted wooden ceiling, stone columns, and modern chandeliers. A bar with barstools is at the back, and seating with wooden tables and chairs is at the front. The space has large windows and warm lighting.

Grand Lodge - Bar Trellis

Gaylord Rockies - Aurora, CO

2024

This thing is every bit as heavy as it looks. Fabricated in TN and shipped in pieces to CO as part of the Grand Lodge renovations at Gaylord Rockies in 2024. The finish wouldn’t allow for any field welding so the whole thing is designed with engineered bolted connections. We even tried to hide them, you can only see a few in these pictures. In the end, we had to install the trellis before the main slabs were poured inside. The blackened finish didn’t keep the steel from rusting and it had to be refinished in the field anyway, meaning it could’ve just been welded in the first place. Such is construction.

Also shown below are two more scopes we drew on this job: the glass railing at the monumental stair and the I-beam structure at the window wall that holds the shade mechanisms to cover that humongous window.

Grand Lodge Bar Trellis - Iso
Gaylord Rockies - Grand Lodge
Post-mounted glass railings with steel post railings down middle of each splayed flight of stairs.
W-Beam structure at base of window wall conceals spooled shade material and the mechanism to lift it +50’.
Full view of window trellis at Gaylord Rockies - Grand Lodge
First sheet of bar trellis erection drawings. See “Drawings” page for th