The major casino resorts that changed the model
What makes a casino historically significant? A comparison of influential places is more revealing than a changing league table of floor area.
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Buildings with a biography
Read the history behind influential resorts and the institutions around them. These are historical profiles, without ratings, booking links or current size rankings.
Baden-Baden: the casino within the spa town
The Kurhaus places casino history within a broader European culture of bathing, promenading, performance and seasonal travel.
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Bellagio, 1998: a new chapter on an old site
A resort’s opening can also be the last chapter in the history of another property. Bellagio makes that overlap particularly visible.
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The Venetian Macao: a resort at the scale of a district
The 2007 opening is a useful milestone in the history of Cotai and of the integrated resort as a coordinated built environment.
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