Gaming + Entertainment
From the pulse of high-energy gaming floors to authentic and experiential luxury resorts, WATG & Wimberly Interiors design the world’s most compelling destinations. We bring hospitality, gaming, and experience design together, fusing strategic insight with emotional depth and high performance with human touch. Our work is operationally precise and emotionally resonant, crafted to inspire anticipation, connection, and delight.
From luxury resorts and integrated gaming destinations, we design the world’s most compelling entertainment environments.
Our Approach
Our legacy of world-class hospitality design extends naturally into the world of gaming – from immersive arrival sequences to the intimacy of private lounges, and F&B spaces that tell stories of place and culture. Across every tier, our Advisory, Architecture, Master Planning, Landscape Architecture, and Interior Design teams deliver projects that are shaped by cultural understanding and defined by the hospitality principles that have guided WATG for over eight decades.
WATG delivers an integrated service ensuring every journey, from arrival to departure, is authentic and compelling.
Atlantis Paradise Island
Wimberly Interiors Gaming
With Care, the hallmark of Wimberly Interiors’ philosophy, infuses elegance, sensory richness, and emotional resonance, balancing vibrancy with intimacy. Our designers are artisans of experience, orchestrating light, sound, scent, materiality and movement to evoke belonging, confidence, and energy. The result is spaces that feel alive, welcoming to every guest, and distinctive at every level.
Infusing elegance, sensory richness, and emotional resonance, balancing vibrancy with intimacy.
WATG Gaming
WATG provides the strategic backbone of the integrated destination, blending creative vision and storytelling with data-driven precision and operational intelligence. Whether shaping an urban icon in Las Vegas or a sprawling destination in Macau, our work is enlightened by strategy and guided by artistry. We create spaces that perform and endure – visually iconic, brand-sensitive, resilient, and crafted to surprise and delight.
The strategic backbone, blending creative vision and storytelling with data-driven precision and operational intelligence.
A Spectrum of Play
True expertise is versatile. Our practice is built to serve the full spectrum of the gaming market, delivering design excellence across every scale and positioning:
+ The Entertainment Hub
For high-energy, mid-scale destinations, we design for vibrancy, connectivity, and social engagement, dynamic spaces where design amplifies the excitement of play and the spirit of community.
+ The Integrated Resort
We weave hospitality, retail, and gaming into a cohesive tapestry, creating multi-day destinations that captivate diverse global audiences.
+ The Luxury Sanctuary
For the most exclusive properties, we craft bespoke environments defined by privacy, materiality, and uncompromising attention to detail, redefining what a gaming resort can be.
Designing the flow between gaming, dining, + entertainment
Whether a large-scale development or a more intimate venue, casino development resorts offer curated, exclusive experiences supported by luxury hospitality services.
Operational intelligence meets world-class hospitality design.
Why Work with Us
Our strength lies in translating deep domain knowledge and strategic insight into spaces that balance aesthetics and purpose. Informed by research and grounded in operational intelligence, our designs deliver measurable results without losing sight of emotion, culture, or craft.
For more than eight decades, WATG has defined the global standard for hospitality design, creating destinations that perform beautifully and endure with purpose, our Gaming & Entertainment teams continue that legacy.
Projects
One-of-a-kind, differentiating, defining, and completely memorable.
- North America
Bally’s Kansas City – High Limit Room
- North America
Bally’s Kansas City – High Limit Room
- North America
Bellagio Club Privé & Baccarat
- North America
Bellagio Club Privé & Baccarat
- North America
Scioto Downs
- North America
Scioto Downs
- North America
Hard Rock Rocksino
- North America
Hard Rock Rocksino
- North America
Ocean Casino Resort
- North America
Ocean Casino Resort
- North America
Bally’s Atlantic City Renovation
- North America
Bally’s Atlantic City Renovation
Owensboro Racing & Gaming
Owensboro Racing & Gaming
- Asia Pacific
Paradise City
- Asia Pacific
Paradise City
- Asia Pacific
Hoiana Resort & Golf
- Asia Pacific
Hoiana Resort & Golf
- Asia Pacific
Hann Lux Lifestyle Resort, Banyan Tree and Angsana
- Asia Pacific
Hann Lux Lifestyle Resort, Banyan Tree and Angsana
- Asia Pacific
Hoiana Shores Golf Club
- Asia Pacific
Hoiana Shores Golf Club
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leadership
Our leaders, at the forefront of gaming design
Thomas Sykes
Managing Principal, Gaming
Thomas Sykes
Managing Principal, Gaming
William Salerno
Managing Principal, Architecture
William Salerno
Managing Principal, Architecture
Mark Yoshizaki
Managing Principal, Architecture
Mark Yoshizaki
Managing Principal, Architecture
Hussain Kamal
Managing Principal, Wimberly Interiors
Hussain Kamal
Managing Principal, Wimberly Interiors
Kimberly McCarron
Managing Principal, Atlantic City
Kimberly McCarron
Managing Principal, Atlantic City
John DeRichie III
Principal, Architecture
John DeRichie III
Principal, Architecture
Rafael Velazquez
Associate Principal, Architecture
Rafael Velazquez
Associate Principal, Architecture
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Insights
Gaming + Entertainment: News, Research, Happenings and Insights
- Gaming + Entertainment
WATG Acquires Atlantic City-Based SOSH Architects
- Gaming + Entertainment
WATG Acquires Atlantic City-Based SOSH Architects
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North American Ski Resorts: One Size Does Not Fit All
White paper: There’s Snow Place Like Home (APAC)
White paper: There’s Snow Place Like Home (APAC)
Golf is surging. Designers can help developers drive the momentum.
Golf is surging. Designers can help developers drive the momentum.
What the next generation of gamers want from casino environments