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Lifescapes International

Lifescapes International is named in 9 stories in the archive, 2019–2025. The list is built from the text of the stories themselves and from the credit blocks the magazine printed with them, so it shows where the practice was reported on rather than everything it has built. A name may appear as design architect, architect of record, interior designer or contractor, and the story says which; the guide to reading a credit block explains why the distinction matters.

9 stories sit under Lifescapes International, published between 2019 and 2025. They came out of 5 issues of the magazine, Casino Design 2022 carrying the most at 3. The longest of them is The Technology Revolution.

Across the sections of the magazine they break down as Hospitality (3), Architecture (2), Gaming Floor (2) and Development (1). The design moves that come back most often here are sustainability and leed (5), theming (4), water features (3) and food halls and chefs (3), counted by reading the text of every story rather than from tags. The practices named more than once are Lifescapes International (9), Thalden Boyd Emery Architects (7), HBG Design (6) and SOSH Architects (5), each with its own page in the firm directory. In order, the set runs A Whole New Game: Making Money Beyond the Casino Floor, Going Non-Gaming, Everybody Into the Pool!, The WOW Experience, 2021 Design Q&A: Redesign and Repurpose, Naturally Captivating Amenities, DESIGN Q&A: Future Shock, The Technology Revolution and The Brave New World of Design and Construction: An Industry Roundtable. 3 bylines appear on them — Julie Brinkerhoff Jacobs, Marjorie Preston and Casino Design Staff — and each contributor has a page listing everything of theirs the archive holds.

Everything filed here is the magazine's own reporting, kept at its original address and re-laid into the current design rather than re-edited. Where a story named a practice, a budget or a room count, the figure is the one that issue printed, and it has been left as it was printed: a 2009 budget is a 2009 budget, and the value of the archive is precisely that it says what was thought at the time instead of what turned out to be true later.