Casino Copenhagen

Casino Copenhagen occupies part of the Radisson Collection Royal Hotel, designed by the Danish architect and designer Arne Jacobsen and completed in 1960 — a building regarded as one of the defining works of Scandinavian modernism, and still furnished in places with Jacobsen's own iconic Egg and Swan chairs. Denmark legalised land-based casinos only in 1990, and Casino Copenhagen, opening that same year inside the already-famous hotel, became the country's first.

That pairing gives the venue a different character from almost anything else in this atlas: rather than gilt, marble, or belle-époque ornament, the gaming rooms sit within a building whose design language is defined by clean modernist lines, considered furniture, and restrained materials — a Nordic counterpoint to the historicist grandeur of the continental houses further south.

The gaming floor itself is conventional in programme if not in setting: Roulette and Blackjack tables, a slot-machine hall, Punto Banco, and a poker room, aimed at both Copenhagen's own clientele and the hotel's international guests, many of whom encounter the casino as part of a stay built around the hotel's design pedigree as much as its gaming licence.

Its location beside Copenhagen Central Station and a short walk from Tivoli Gardens — itself one of the oldest amusement parks in the world — makes the casino an easy, central evening stop for visitors already exploring the Danish capital on foot.