Architecture & Design Community
December 1, 2024
There’s something transformative about a proper wellness retreat. Once you experience one, it becomes a yearly pilgrimage—a ritual to reset your health, recharge your spirit, and realign with a lifestyle that’s healthier, better, and longer-lasting. And if you’re serious about indulging in the next-level of wellness experiences, Rakxa Wellness Retreat in Bangkok should be at […]
September 7, 2024
Nestled in the prestigious enclave of Belgravia, London, The Garrison Club at Chelsea Barracks offers residents a private sanctuary that elevates the concept of sport into an art form. At the heart of this world-class residential development lies an indoor tennis court that flawlessly combines vintage charm with contemporary sophistication—creating an experience that is as […]
November 24, 2022
Aesthe is a Parisian aesthetic medical centre that is minimalist to the extreme yet it also exudes warm and inviting elegance. It is a fully custom-tailored project by architects Romain Freychet and Antoine Prax co-founders of Paris-based GRAMME. Aesthé was founded by CEO Anne-Charlotte Rousseau with Baptiste Lestienne and Arnaud Lambert in late 2021. They took the imposing Hausmannian […]
April 5, 2022
Although BIBU is promoted as a “pet store” it is really much more. It is an entire pet-care and pet-pampering environment, strategically answering the call of the younger generations to provide the services and products their pampered pets need. In addition to retailing pets, pet supplies and food, BIBU includes also a veterinary clinic and […]
November 19, 2021
The recently reopened Municipal Baths of Strasbourg really must be addressed as ‘Baths.’ It would not seem right to call the complex just simply a swimming facility or an aquatic, wellness or community centre. It is all of these but its grand architecture and interior design, both now elegantly restored by the Paris and Geneve-based […]
November 19, 2021
The recently reopened Municipal Baths of Strasbourg really must be addressed as ‘Baths.’ It would not seem right to call the complex just simply a swimming facility or an aquatic, wellness or community centre. It is all of these but its grand architecture and interior design, both now elegantly restored by the Paris and Geneve-based […]
September 1, 2021
The need to upgrade the design of medical and dental offices has been talked and written about for at least three decades. Yet real change has not taken place. Certainly not in the non-luxury world. From the customer perspective, most are still boring, bland and decidedly “medical.” Yes, we understand the need for hygiene and […]
August 22, 2021
Those endless rows of black equipment. The overall feel of a gym. We are hoping that one day, someone will disrupt this segment and decide that not all exercise equipment has to look like oil-rig machinery channelling destruction and torture, not health and well-being. Maybe we are the only humans whose idea of health and […]
June 21, 2021
AHC Waterful Desert Spa is the new flagship location and a renewed spa brand of the Korean beauty brand AHC. The soft-hued, open and airy spa provides an antidote to the endless hustle of the 9.8-million-inhabitant city’s Gangnam (Gangnam-gu – South of the River) district that is the capital’s modern high-end, high-energy centre with its […]
May 26, 2020
Last year, after having been in business for more than 50 years, the New Zealand fitness powerhouse Les Mills completed the design of an additional facility across from its flagship location on Victoria Street in Auckland City. The addition is a thoroughly re-configured industrial building that now houses three new Les Mills studios. These studios […]
13 November 2026
