Hey Big Duck out on Long Island: Move over, the chickens have come home to roost. In the Philippines, a new 114-foot hotel shaped like a rooster recently opened its doors, dwarfing the iconic avian structure built by duck farmer Martin Maurer in Flanders, New York, that Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown loved to write about. The gargantuan rooster-hotel is sited in Talisay City at Campuestohan Highland Resort, perched above the central mountainous province of Negros Occidental. It was ideated by the resorts owner, Ricardo Tan. Today, locals colloquially refer to the hotel as Handsome Canos Chicken, Gabrielle Andres reported in The Straight Times.As to be expected, the rooster has already made the rounds on TikTok.The rooster is 114 feet tall. (Courtesy Guinness World Records)In section, Tans hotel echoes Charles-Franois Ribarts unbuilt Elephant Monument to Louis XV from 1758. It also calls to mind a chicken-shaped church, Gereja Ayam, on the Indonesian island of Java, built by Daniel Alamsjah.After the rooster hotels completion in September, Guinness World Records recognized it as the largest building in the shape of a chicken. Upon receiving his new accolade, Tan told Guinness World Records officials, I had a vision to make something with a wow factor.Elephant Monument to Louis XV by Charles-Franois Ribart (Charles-Franois Ribart/Wikimedia Commons/Public Domain)Tan added that the rooster pays homage to Negros Occidentals robust agricultural sector. I feel proud and humbled at the same time, Tan shared. Im proud to have put my province and my home country on Guinness World Records. Humbled as I am from a poor upbringing where I had to work as a shoeshine boy to earn a living and go to school. I have made my family, my province and my country proud. In total, Tans creation has 15 rooms that can accommodate solo travelers or families. It also has a wave pool, a restaurant, a cafe, three swimming pools, bonita huts, and hundreds of dinosaurs and cartoon figures. So as to maintain the roosters aesthetic integrity, the rooms dont have windows.Typical hotel room (Courtesy Guiness World Records)Negros Occidental has a gamefowl industry that employs millions of people in the Philippines. If you look at a rooster, it looks calm and commanding, imposing and strong which reflects the attitude of our people, the hotel owner and visionary continued. The rooster can stand against strong winds and can withstand pressure from other roosters, an attitude of Negrense people with resilience to recover quickly from any form of difficulties and hardships in life, one trait that their people have in times of crisis and challenges.The region regularly experiences storms and typhoons, natural occurrences Tan took into account in the design process.Construction on the building started in June 2023.Rooms at the rooster-hotel go for about $100 a night.