Casino Holland Venlo
Holland Casino Venlo The casino in Venlo is a mid size casino. The casino’s official name is Holland Casino Venlo. It offers a considerable number of slot machines. Het spectaculaire ontwerp van het nieuwe Holland Casino Venlo, in de vorm van een bloem, met een hoogte van 25 meter. De bouw van het Holland Casino is in oktober 2018 gestart en inmiddels een aardig eind op streep. Met ledverlichting die om het hele gebouw gaat lopen moet het een van de nieuwe landmarks van Venlo worden. Holland Casino is a Dutch state-owned company and has the legal monopoly on gambling in the Netherlands, and has fourteen casinos located throughout the country. Profits from Holland Casino go directly to the Dutch treasury. In 2007, profit was around 267 million euros and in 2006 some 263 million euros. One of the largest is operated by the Dutch government and is called Holland Casino. The site in Venlo is normally occupied by Chinese people and by Germans. The slot machines are nice to play. Voor het nieuwe Holland Casino in Venlo is door MVSA Architects een spectaculair gebouw ontworpen in de vorm van een bloem. Het gebouw is voorzien van een interactieve LED-gevel, die door Sorba wordt ontwikkeld. Bestaande uit een gedeelte met pailletten, voorzien van LED verlichting, en een gedeelte met een geperforeerde beplating.
There are two starting points for this design: maximum sustainability and an optimal user experience. Both themes begin outside the building. The landmark structure is clearly visible from a distance, with its interactive façade offering a lively, colour-changing lightshow for visitors and passers-by. Outside the building too, the flower structures harvest solar energy and fresh air. A multidisciplinary team developed the concept, resulting in a holistic approach to architecture and sustainability.
A natural coherence between landscape, architecture and interior is felt everywhere in the self-sufficient building. Materials are biodegradable, natural, or reused.
The casino appears as a huge flower rising from the landscape. The entrance, via a generous stairway alongside a pond with water lilies, leads visitors through the casino in an intuitive way, to the heart of the flower, which is centrally located in the atrium. Here the roof rises from the central stem, creating the emblematic corolla that forms an impressive starry sky. The central bar winds around the flower stem and forms the highlight of the interior as it extends over the different levels and morphs into the stairway. Lighting enhances the flowing, organic forms throughout the design.
Nature was our teacher: the total concept is based on biomimicry. The building is a self-regulating organism with a skin, skeleton, metabolism and brain. The Trias Energetica method determines its energy management, resulting in an almost energy-neutral building (EPC 0.34, equivalent to Breeam Outstanding). This is the best-ever energy performance for this type of building. In line with circular design, the old casino has been reused, along with new bio-based material including the wooden construction. The smart concept gives space to the natural ecology of the neighbouring River Maas, including the foraging area for bats and the sustainable integration of parking areas into the landscape. The surrounding green plant walls are a habitat for insects and other organisms. The building uses natural energy sources. Its curved form collects rainwater for the grey-water circuit, which is then purified by the helophyte filter in the entrance staircase. PV film on the roof and in the flower-shaped sculptures captures solar energy. Light tubes use daylight to create a starry sky indoors, while visitors generate energy through the interactive entrance floor. The adaptive building signals visitor numbers and adjusts its use of energy, water and air accordingly.
More than a collection of sustainability solutions, the design is a total concept: an iconic and future-proof building. Sustainability ambitions and Holland Casino’s identity are approached in an integrated way and unified as a result, creating new opportunities for partnership and cooperation and new business cases. Self-sufficient in energy terms, the casino fits seamlessly with circular-economy thinking. A materials passport in BIM facilitates maintenance and repairs. Respect for the total cost of ownership forms the basis of the holistic design. Outdoor space and building form one entity and absorb air, water and energy like an organism. The building has a skin, skeleton, brain and an excellent metabolism. Meanwhile, the visitor experiences magic everywhere, from the façade to deep in building’s heart. The highest level of sustainability has in no way diminished the glamour and allure of the building. On the contrary, it proves that we can create a world that is in harmony with nature, that sustainability is applicable everywhere and that smart buildings are no longer a dream.
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Project data
| Location | Venlo |
| Size | 6 ha |
| Design | 2016 |
| Construction | 2020 |
| Client | Holland Casino |
| Team | John Boon, Timo Cents, Hans Smolenaers, Sjaak Punt, Leonieke Heldens |
| In collaboration with | MVSA Architects |
Holland Casino is a Dutch state-owned company and has the legal monopoly on gambling in the Netherlands, and has fourteen casinos located throughout the country. Profits from Holland Casino go directly to the Dutch treasury. In 2007, profit was around 267 million euros and in 2006 some 263 million euros.
Casinos[edit]
The headquarters of Holland Casino is located in Hoofddorp, but in the future will move to a separate tower building of the new Holland Casino Utrecht. The first casino opened in Zandvoort on October 1, 1976. Since 2008, the Amsterdam casino is the largest branch. Other branches can be found at:
- Schiphol (Amsterdam Airport)
Games[edit]
In the branches of Holland Casino the following games can be played (not all branches offer all of these games):
Average payment rate was 93% at slot machines, while the legal minimum is 80%. The tables is the average payout ratio 97.7%. All gambling machines are supervised by Dutch Measurement Institute and they are also inspected by the independent inspection company Verispect.
Compulsive gambling[edit]
The company has policies in place to prevent compulsive gambling as much as possible. Holland Casino was presented the Gaming Award for the most socially responsible business in the international casino industry, on January 21, 2008, in London.
Reforms of 2011[edit]
In March 2011, the Dutch coalition government announced a new gambling framework which in 2015 will open the country's online gambling market (including casinos, lotteries, poker, sportsbooks and bingo) to licensed domestic and foreign gaming establishments.[1]
References[edit]
- ^Dutch News - Gambling market to be opened up Retrieved on: April 9, 2011
External links[edit]
Holland Casino Venlo Openingstijden
Coordinates: 52°21′45″N4°52′56″E / 52.3624°N 4.8823°E