Spa & Health Club Design

by Encarna Castillo

Book Overview

Today, fitness studios and modern spas are more than merely functional sports installations and health centers. In fact, they are painstakingly conceived and designed to delight their visitors with... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3832790748
• ISBN13: 9783832790745
• Release Date: November 2005
• Publisher: Te Neues Publishing Company
• Length: 135 Pages
• Weight: 1.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 7.9" x 9.7"

Customer Reviews

Beautifully Photographed Idea Book

With the increasing understanding of the importance of exercise, has also come the understanding that the old fashioned gym like Rocky might have used, upstairs over the pool hall, has given way to places designed to attract the upper scale clientelle of today. Ms. Castillo has carefully collected a set of photographs of newly built spa and health clubs from around the world. Literally from all over the world: Australia, Vienna, Canada, China, all over Europe. These spa's represent what the best architects are doing in this area. The book is an idea book for people interested in the area. This would include no only architects, but people like hotel management, spa operators, or even the home owner looking to put in his own unit. For me two points really stand out in these designs: 1. The integration of the new, almost exoctic spa into a standard hotel design, or perhaps fit into an existing building of any age or architecture. 2. The large use of water. This can be swiming pools, fountains, hot tubs or whatever. It seems that water is an integral part of the new spa. Beautiful photographs carefully selected to illustrate what can be done.