Architect: Cope Linder Architects, Philadelphia; Interiors by Carey Jones Architects Ltd., Leeds, UK
Owner: Isle of Capri Casinos
Multimedia, acoustics: Shen Milsom & Wilke, New York City
Size: 157,000 square feet
Completion: May 2007

The Isle combines the existing Pompano Park Harness Track with a new adjacent casino. It holds a gaming arena with slot machines, a 34-table poker room, off-track betting facilities, four restaurants, and two bars.

What really sets this casino apart is the high level of multimedia design, courtesy of Shen Milsom & Wilke. Signals emanating from a “master control suite” (otherwise known as a head-end room) run two 12-by-16-foot video walls in the sports bar. These might display the action at the harness track, a football game, or a movie.

Digital signage throughout tells customers what’s to eat at the restaurants, where the gaming action is at, and other bits of knowledge. Meantime a computer-controlled background music and paging system features noise-sensing abilities so that it can adjust sound levels as needed.

To keep things easy to operate, Shen Milsom & Wilke made all of the controls for these systems accessible by the facility operator from anywhere.

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