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Choctaw Casino Resort in Durant, Oklahoma epitomises the all-encompassing entertainment solutions that casinos often represent. With no less than nine res- taurants, three gaming areas, a spa, tropical pools, the almost obligatory hotel and four entertainment-focused venues, the Native American owners have certainly outlined their precedent of satisfying their mission statement: ‘our goal is your absolute pleasure’. The staggered sizes of the entertainment venues mean that a variety of shows can be booked. The Choctaw Event Center affords customers the opportunity to watch nationally renowned entertainers performing live in an intimate setting featuring a state-of-the-art video and sound system. The tropical open-air Amphitheatre is de- scribed as ‘the perfect stage for entertainment’. The 175-seat Amphitheatre with theatre seating and elevated stage area creates an intimate yet accommodating setting for a small show or private gathering. With just under 600-seats, Center- Stage is an intimate concert venue where people can take in their favourite acts. And finally the Diamondback Lounge embodies, within one space, small doses of many of the resort’s key entertainment elements: live music, refreshments and gaming. Nautilus Entertainment Design (NED) worked across the entire project to deliver audio, lighting and visual solutions to this expansive installation. They worked with
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Visual Terrain to help deliver some aspects, particularly on the casino’s extremities. Both parties were answering the design direction of architects, WorthGroup Archi- tects whose Vice President, Bryan Hamilton, explained: “Our charge to the team in continuing the design aesthetic was to seamlessly integrate lighting into these elements, rather than apply it. Thus creating a true ambience of light.” The elements Bryan refers to include various features at the casino’s entry points. Dawn Hollingsworth of Visual Terrain revealed: “Our work was mainly on the entry and exterior of the building. The architect’s vision was to engage the senses. They were going after not just sight but sound as well. When you come down the boul- evard to the entrance, there are a lot of elements like fire and water. Their idea was to engage those elements because fire and water, those types of natural elements, are all very visual but they are also very auditory. The idea was to engage in the sight and the sound, not just the visual.” These external Visual Terrain features include the Water Ribbons – illuminated, curvilinear water walls measuring 60 ft x 6 ft, containing 40 Hevi Lite halide floodlights – which were described by Bryan as having “a very nice acoustic quality to them.” The Entry Pylons, complete with their modern Indian design, which are illuminated by over 70 LED Power and Iguzzini LED luminaries, and the Lobby Water Show and Fire Water Fountain.
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