The Hollywood Casino received a PCI Special Recognition Award for Creative Design. This new expansion project nearly doubles the amount of gaming space within the casino.

This replaces two riverboats initially used for gaming. The casino is developed and detailed with a construction-logic that expresses its radial geometry.Ī new 70,000 SF dockside gaming facility is a horseshoe-shaped, permanently moored, floating structure that encircles the docking pavilion. The overall building massing is reminiscent of nineteenth century casino prototypes. The banded precast concrete and granite-aggregate panels of the pavilion culminate in a forty-foot diameter glass dome above a four-story atrium marking the casino as a destination. The four-story pavilion initially provided central docking, ticketing, restaurant, and administrative functions for riverboat entertainment at the north end of Stolp Island in Aurora, Illinois. Gaming & Smoking Patio, Getting It Straight, Dragon BreakersNearest Casino My. This new facility opened with the look and feel of a land-based casino. Hollywood Casino at Penn National Race Course. The pavilion building is the central docking facility for the Hollywood Casino gaming facility on the Fox River. Cordogan Clark & Associates were the casino and hospitality architects for the new Hollywood Casino gaming facilities.