Recurring solutions, counted
Every entry is a design move the magazine has returned to. The number is how many stories in the archive actually discuss it — counted in the text, not assigned by hand, which is why a term with three mentions does not get a page at all. Read down the list and it is a rough history of the discipline: theming and carpet at the top because they were argued about for twenty years, LED lighting because it rewrote what an interior could do, smoke-free floors and daylight because they are the arguments now. Each page lists every story that discusses the subject, newest first. For the vocabulary itself, see the working glossary of casino design.
10 entries are counted, the largest of them theming with 41 stories and the smallest smoke-free floors with 8. An entry earns its page by recurrence, not by importance: the phrase has to turn up in the body of the stories themselves, which is why a fashionable term with three mentions is absent while carpet, argued over for twenty years, is near the top.
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.
Two things are worth knowing about how this part of the site is put together. The first is that a page is never generated for a heading that has nothing under it: if a rubric appears in the navigation, there is reporting behind it. The second is that the archive is closed at the far end and open at the near one — the earliest issues will not grow, while the current section keeps taking new work, so the balance between them shifts a little with every issue.