CASINO STYLE 202501

BUILDING EXCITEMENT

BUILDING EXCITEMENT in Casino Style 2025. 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 2025. The longest of them is Wynn's Wonder.

Across the sections of the magazine they break down as Hospitality (5), Interiors (3), Architecture (2) and Development (2). The design moves that come back most often here are led lighting (4), theming (2) and natural light (2), counted by reading the text of every story rather than from tags. BUILDING EXCITEMENT is one of 14 departments in Casino Style 2025; the others are CASINO DESIGN AWARDS, Columns, CUTTING EDGE, Departments and DESIGN MARKETING, among others. The issue as a whole carried 38 stories, and all of them are listed on the Casino Style 2025 page. 4 bylines appear on them — Casino Style Staff, William Sokolic, Marjorie Preston and James Rutherford — 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.