Casino Design: Resorts, Hotels, and Themed Entertainment Spaces (v. 1) [Hardcover]

Justin Henderson (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 1999

Casino Design dramatically presents an international collection of the latest and best designs in what has become known as themed entertainment architecture.

--Showcases a wide range of projects, from oversized Las Vegas theme destinations to exotic places in Greece, South Africa, Australia and Turkey

--Includes more than 250 full color photographs and site plans

--Presents a section on riverboats and their neighboring party pavilions

--Features the 400,000 square foot (37,160 square meter) Mohegan Sun, the newest Native American casino in the United States.

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About the Author

Justin Henderson is a Seattle-based freelance writer specializing in architecture, interior design, and travel writing. He served as a senior and contributing editor to Interiors magazine from 1985 to 1995, and also has contributed articles to numerous design and general interest publications including Metropolitan Home, The New York Times Magazine, The Village Voice, The LA Weekly, Architecture, Interior Design, Seattle Magazine, and Metropolis.

Henderson has written two other books for Rockport Publishers, Museum Architecture and Workplaces and Workspaces. He is also the co-author of Fodor's Guide to Costa Rica.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 192 pages
• Publisher: Rockport Publishers (June 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1564965775
• ISBN-13: 978-1564965776
• Product Dimensions: 12 x 9.3 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.8 pounds
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,306,905 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Justin here. I've been writing all kinds of books for a long time now, through years in LA growing up, then the 80s in New York, the 90s and 00s in Seattle, and now, here in Sayulita, Nayarit, Mexico. I live here with my beautiful wife, Donna Day, and our smart, charming, princess of a daughter Jade. I do a lot of surfing these days, and watch the tropical birds in the mango trees across the vacant lot.

When I was in New York, I worked as an architectural journalist, and eventually wrote a bunch of books about interior design and architecture. I also did some traveling as a journalist, and it was on one of those trips that I found the inspiration for Lucy Ripken, my amateur mystery sleuth. Lucy is a hybrid of Donna and me, a semi-tough-talking contemporary "broad" with a heart of gold and a loft in SoHo. Not unlike the one Donna and I lived in until we fled for the less stressful environs of Seattle in 1991. In Seattle I kept on writing all kinds of books, and as was my habit, hanging around music venues. Eventually that turned into another book, called Grunge Seattle, a kind of cultural travel guide to Seattle in the early 90s.

After the first Lucy Ripken, I wrote six more. They are all available at Amazon, as are the architecture and design books. These days I spend a lot of time riding waves, and writing about surfing among other things. You can check out my surfing column here: http://www.elsayulero.com/channel/44/stories. And the books are all sitting on the electronic shelf. Have a look. See you in the waves.