THE END GAME

THE END GAME in Casino Design 2009. The closing page. One image, object or argument chosen to send the reader out of the issue. The rest of the issue follows below. Sections are the magazine's own: each annual was assembled out of departments that recurred from year to year, and the pages are kept at the addresses the issue gave them.

6 stories sit under THE END GAME, all of them from 2009. The longest of them is Encore! Encore!.

Across the sections of the magazine they break down as Interiors (2), Architecture (2), Hospitality (1) and Development (1). The design moves that come back most often here are boutique scale (2), counted by reading the text of every story rather than from tags. THE END GAME is one of 6 departments in Casino Design 2009; the others are Columns, COMPANY PROFILES, Departments, FEATURES and GGB Directory. The issue as a whole carried 6 stories, and all of them are listed on the Casino Design 2009 page. In order, the set runs Encore! Encore!, Spurred to Success, Hard Hit, One of a Kind, Interesting Interiors and Azores Gem. 3 bylines appear on them — Roger Gros, Marjorie Preston and Casino Design Staff — and each contributor has a page listing everything of theirs the archive holds.

Stories are listed newest first, with the issue each one ran in printed beside the headline. Nothing has been rewritten to fit the new sections: every page carries the text the magazine published, at the address it was published at, and the rubric is an index laid over the archive rather than a replacement for it. A story can therefore turn up under more than one heading — a resort tower that is an architecture story in its massing and a hospitality story in its rooms sits in both, and follows the same link either way.

Nothing is filed here yet.