Demystifying Data

Across the sections

• Architecture

  The Asian Floor Is Not a Western Floor With Baccarat

  Macau, Singapore, Manila and Vietnam produced a different building: table-led, vertically stacked, high-ceremony at arrival.

  Casino Design Magazine · September 28, 2026

• Interiors

  The Art Programme, and What It Is For

  Casinos commission serious art, publish brochures about it, and increasingly render it on screens.

  Casino Design Magazine · September 27, 2026

• Gaming Floor

  The Racino Problem: Two Businesses Under One Roof

  A racetrack with a casino has two customer groups, two regulators, two seasons and often two legal ages.

  Casino Design Magazine · September 27, 2026

• Hospitality

  A Bed and a Bathroom Is No Longer Enough

  The casino guest room stopped being a place to sleep off a session.

  Casino Design Magazine · September 27, 2026

• Development

  What a Casino "Project Cost" Actually Includes

  The same building can honestly be reported at $830 million or at $540 million. The archive's own credit lines show exactly where the difference goes.

  Casino Design Magazine · March 24, 2026

• Architecture

  The Water Feature Audit: Where Casinos Still Build With Water, and Why

  Water is the most expensive decorative element in the building and the one with an operating cost every day of its life.

  Casino Design Magazine · March 3, 2026

• Interiors

  When the Lamp Got Small: How LED Rewrote Casino Interiors

  Twenty-nine stories in this archive touch LED. Taken together they record a shift from lighting a room to building with light — and a new class of.

  Casino Design Magazine · February 10, 2026

• Gaming Floor

  No Windows, No Clocks: What the Casino Design Archive Actually Says About Daylight

  The most repeated claim about casino architecture is fifty years out of date.

  Casino Design Magazine · January 13, 2026

• Hospitality

  When the Restaurant Started Paying the Rent

  Fourteen stories in this archive follow food and beverage from a loss leader at the back of the floor to the reason the building is shaped the way it.

  Casino Design Magazine · June 16, 2026

• Development

  The Greenest Building in the World Was a Casino Resort

  Nineteen stories in this archive touch sustainability, and the interesting ones are not about certification.

  Casino Design Magazine · July 28, 2026

All 221 stories

What the magazine keeps returning to

Counted by reading the text of every story in the archive, not assigned by hand.

• Theming41
• LED lighting29
• Carpet24
• Sustainability and LEED19
• Boutique scale16
• Porte-cochère15
• Food halls and chefs14
• Water features13
• Natural light9
• Smoke-free floors8

Who designed it

Practices named in the stories, with the number of projects each appears in.

• HBG Design17
• Cuningham Group Architecture16
• SOSH Architects15
• Steelman Partners14
• Thalden Boyd Emery Architects13
• Friedmutter Group12
• Lifescapes International9
• Cleo Design5
• Purchasing Management International5
• BLT Architects3
• YWS Architects3
• Wynn Design and Development3

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