BUILDING EXCITEMENT

BUILDING EXCITEMENT in Casino Design 2019. The annual roll call of finished work: the year's notable casino, hotel and entertainment projects, each credited to the architects, interior designers and builders who delivered it. 12 stories. 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.

12 stories sit under BUILDING EXCITEMENT, all of them from 2019. The longest of them is Best of the Boardwalk.

Across the sections of the magazine they break down as Interiors (4), Architecture (3), Gaming Floor (3) and Development (2). The design moves that come back most often here are theming (3), led lighting (3), carpet (3) and porte-cochère (2), counted by reading the text of every story rather than from tags. The practices named more than once are Cleo Design (2), each with its own page in the firm directory. BUILDING EXCITEMENT is one of 6 departments in Casino Design 2019; the others are Columns, COMPANY PROFILES, Departments, FEATURES and GGB Directory. The issue as a whole carried 24 stories, and all of them are listed on the Casino Design 2019 page. 6 bylines appear on them — Robert Rossiello, Marjorie Preston, Frank Legato and Roger Gros — 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.

• Building ExcitementBest of the BoardwalkRobert Rossiello · Tue, Jul 31, 2019
• Building ExcitementLet It RockMarjorie Preston · Tue, Jul 31, 2019
• Building ExcitementCategory KillerFrank Legato · Tue, Jul 31, 2019
• Building ExcitementWinds of FortuneRobert Rossiello · Tue, Jul 31, 2019
• Building ExcitementThe Glory of RomeRoger Gros · Tue, Jul 31, 2019
• Building ExcitementMaking HistoryFrank Legato · Tue, Jul 31, 2019
• Building ExcitementIt's 5 O'Clock SomewhereCasino Design Staff · Tue, Jul 31, 2019
• Building ExcitementAqueduct AdventureCasino Design Staff · Tue, Jul 31, 2019
• Building ExcitementContaining Culture & CostsDave Bontempo · Tue, Jul 31, 2019
• Building ExcitementAqua FunDave Bontempo · Tue, Jul 31, 2019
• Building ExcitementGood Morning, Vietnam!Dave Bontempo · Tue, Jul 31, 2019
• Building ExcitementCrowning AchievementMarjorie Preston · Tue, Jul 31, 2019