Concept: building a land-based casino
A concept for a land-based casino resort: a hotel tower rising over a low pavilion with a main hall, a theatre and restaurants, planned so the tower rush and the long-span roof can run side by side.
This page describes a concept, not a completed building. It shows how we would approach a land-based casino resort on a Mediterranean waterfront: the shape of the buildings, the order of works and the engineering questions that make this type of project different from an ordinary hotel.
The scheme has two parts. A slender hotel tower stands at the back of the site, and a low pavilion under a sweeping bronze roof faces the sea. The tower is built the Tower rush way, with its core climbing ahead of the floors. The pavilion is the opposite: a long-span roof assembled on the ground and lifted in place, where precision matters more than pace.
Running the two in parallel is the heart of the programme. While the tower climbs, the pavilion's basement, service levels and roof structure progress below it, so the whole resort can open in one go rather than in stages.
Venues of this kind are open late into the night, every day of the year. That shapes almost every technical decision.
Security and surveillance need their own routes, rooms and cable paths from the first drawings. Large halls need careful acoustics so a show in the theatre never reaches the restaurants. Fire safety has to work for crowds moving through big open spaces. Air handling and cooling run long hours, so plant must be easy to reach and maintain without closing anything. Back-of-house logistics, from cash handling rooms to kitchens and staff entrances, are planned as a separate building tucked under the public one.
Piling, a secant wall along the waterfront and a dewatered basement box, with crane bases and pump positions fixed for the whole job.
Service levels and parking go in first, with the security and plant rooms fitted out early because so much depends on them.
The hotel core climbs on self-climbing formwork and the floors follow in a steady weekly rhythm.
The pavilion roof is assembled in segments on the podium and raised onto its supports, then clad in bronze-toned panels.
Facades close the tower floor by floor while the hall, theatre and restaurants are fitted out under the finished roof.
Long testing of security, fire, sound and air systems before the first guests arrive, because a venue that never closes cannot be fixed later.
The renders on this page are AI-generated concept visualisations. The section and the phasing chart are our own concept drawings. They do not show an existing building.