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Casino Design MagazineArchitecture and interior design of casino resorts9 issues221 stories
Casino DesignMagazine · Est. 2008Issues
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Karla Perez

A byline from the archive. Bylines are reproduced as the magazine printed them, and every story a contributor signed stays live at its original address. Where a biography ran with the story it appears below; where the magazine printed none, the record is the work itself. Contributors to an annual are a mix of staff editors, industry practitioners writing on their own projects and freelance reporters, and the magazine did not distinguish between them on the page — the section a story ran in is usually the better guide to how it was commissioned.

The contributor index holds 31 names and 143 signed stories. A byline page exists here because the magazine printed one, and it keeps its own address whether or not a signed story survived into the snapshot: a link made to it years ago still resolves. The annuals credited staff editors, practitioners writing about their own projects and freelance reporters in the same type, so the department a story ran in is usually the better guide to how it was commissioned than the byline is.

What follows is the archive as the magazine left it, sorted rather than summarised. Headlines keep their original addresses, the issue each story ran in stays with it, and where two stories disagree about a property both are kept: the earlier one is what was planned, the later one is what was built. Reading them in that order is usually more instructive than either on its own, which is why nothing has been quietly superseded or removed.

The counts on this page are read off the archive at build time, not maintained by hand, which is why they are odd numbers rather than round ones. The same goes for the themes and practices listed above: they come from reading the text of the stories, so a firm appears because a writer named it in a sentence, not because someone attached a label afterwards. That makes the lists shorter than a tag cloud would be, and more reliable.

Karla Perez

Karla Perez began her career with Cintas in 2003. She has 11 years of experience in the industry, designing and implementing uniform programs for commercial and tribal casinos across the United States. Her portfolio consists of several well-known brands such as Mohegan Sun, Caesars Entertainment, MGM International, Boyd Gaming and more.