Spa Health Club Design

Author : Encarna Castillo
Publisher : teNeues
ISBN 13 : 9783832790745
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Spa & Health Club Design written by Encarna Castillo and published by teNeues. This book was released on 2005 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 perfected trainling programs, the latest in health and beauty treatments, and stunning interiors. Spa & Health Club Design gathers 21 of these wellness retreats whose original designs and innovative architecture generate the perfect environment for physical exercise and relaxation. Book jacket.

Author : Christine M. Piotrowski
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 047039773X
Total Pages : 687 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Designing Commercial Interiors written by Christine M. Piotrowski and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2012-06-14 with total page 687 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive reference on designing commercial interiors-expanded and updated for today's facilities Following the success of the ASID/Polsky Prize Honorable Mention in 1999, authors Christine Piotrowski and Elizabeth Rogers have extensively revised this guide to planning and designing commercial interiors to help professionals and design students successfully address today's trends and project requirements. This comprehensive reference covers the practical and aesthetic issues that distinguish commercial interiors. There is new information on sustainable design, security, and accessibility-three areas of increased emphasis in modern interiors. An introductory chapter provides an overview of commercial interior design and the challenges and rewards of working in the field, and stresses the importance of understanding the basic purpose and functions of the client's business as a prerequisite to designing interiors. This guide also gives the reader a head start with eight self-contained chapters that provide comprehensive coverage of interior design for specific types of commercial facilities, ranging from offices to food and beverage facilities, and from retail stores to health care facilities. Each chapter is complete with a historical overview, types of facilities, planning and interior design elements, design applications, a summary, references, and Web sites. New design applications covered include spas in hotels, bed and breakfast inns, coffee shops, gift stores and salons, courthouses and courtrooms, and golf clubhouses. In keeping with the times, there are new chapters focusing on senior living facilities and on restoration and adaptive use. A chapter on project management has been revised and includes everything from proposals and contracts to scheduling and documentation. Throughout the book, design application discussions, illustrations, and photographs help both professionals and students solve problems and envision and implement distinctive designs for commercial interiors. With information on licensing, codes, and regulations, along with more than 150 photographs and illustrations, this combined resource and instant reference is a must-have for commercial interior design professionals, students, and those studying for the NCIDQ licensing exam. Companion Web site: www.wiley.com/go/commercialinteriors

Author : Braun
Publisher : Verlagshaus Braun
ISBN 13 : 9783037680469
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Move! written by Braun and published by Verlagshaus Braun. This book was released on 2010 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Notable projects from around the globe showing the broad scope of creative, unusual and innovative gym architecture and design.With health-consciousness on the rise, fitness is a factor that plays an increasingly important role in peoples' lives. In consequence, the demand for up-to-date and sophisticated fitness facilities is growing. The best gyms provide their customers with modern exercise equipment as well as relaxation and wellness areas, whilst also offering a welcoming and refined ambience. Combining gym functionality with a cutting-edge, distinctive and contemporary design is an exciting and challenging task that architects increasingly endeavor to perfect. "Move! Best of Gym Design" presents 40 notable projects from around the globe and shows the broad scope of creative, unusual and innovative gym architecture and design, ranging everything from spa and wellness centers, high-tech professional sports and leisure complexes to gyms that are stylish compartments of exclusive hotels.

Author : Joan Whaley Gallup
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 9780471253372
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wellness Centers written by Joan Whaley Gallup and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 1999-04-26 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bringing together the best aspects of ambulatory care, complementary medicine, and fitness clubs under one roof, wellness centers are poised to become an essential vehicle of healthcare delivery for the 21st century. Although wellness-based programs have been instituted by nearly every hospital system in North America, very little has been published on this rapidly emerging building type. Wellness Centers enables design professionals and others to understand the fitness and healthcare requirements of these facilities, and to address them effectively in their work. Providing essential insights into balancing the healthcare and retail demands of wellness centers, Joan Whaley Gallup reviews every step of the planning and development process, addressing project assessment, financing, programming, and marketing. She draws on her extensive expertise in creating wellness centers to cover a full range of development and design considerations, including design guidelines for lobby/waiting areas, clinical space, administrative areas, pools, saunas, and indoor gardens. Finally, an inspiring project portfolio profiles an impressive roster of successful wellness centers from around the world. With useful information on code compliance, plus floor plans, schematic designs, and more, this book is a vital professional resource for anyone involved in wellness center design, planning, or management. "The wellness center is the most positive, nurturing, life-affirming building type ever to evolve in the history of healthcare facilities design. . . . By turning inside out the trends of past centuries, we can now focus on wellness. We can create buildings that will nurture and sustain us, healing environments that will serve to support happy, life-enhancing activities. Centers for wellness are centers for life."-from the Preface The first book of its kind, Wellness Centers offers design professionals and others complete cutting-edge coverage of these complex new facilities, from planning and development issues to design guidelines and case examples of successful wellness centers from around the world. Written by an architect with extensive experience in the field, this book provides a firm foundation in wellness center design, planning, and management-essential reading for anyone involved in this rapidly growing area of healthcare design.

Author : Anneke Bokern
Publisher : Birkhaüser
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Relax written by Anneke Bokern and published by Birkhaüser. This book was released on 2007 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A huge number of wellness centres and related facilities continue to appear in response to this popular demand. Thirty-two of the hottest designs are showcased in Relax. The book is divided into three sections: Spas, Salons and Gyms. Each project featured has been selected for its aesthetic qualities and for the designer2s innovative approach to health and wellbeing. Relax presents work by well-established names such as Mario Botta, Steven Holl and Karim Rashid, while also introducing younger talent,. All projects are accompanied by high-quality photography, in-depth essays, floor plans, project details and contact information.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 824 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hospitality Design written by and published by . This book was released on 2006-07 with total page 824 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 836 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Official Gazette of the United States Patent and Trademark Office written by and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 836 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : C. (Kees) van Dijk
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004253610
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cleanliness and Culture written by C. (Kees) van Dijk and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2011-01-01 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recent years have shown an increase in interest in the study of cleanliness from a historical and sociological perspective. Many of such studies on bathing and washing, on keeping the body and the streets clean, and on filth and the combat of dirt, focus on Europe. In Cleanliness and Culture attention shifts to the tropics, to Indonesia, in colonial times as well as in the present. Subjects range from the use of soap and the washing of clothes as a pretext to claim superiority of race and class to how references to being clean played a role in a campaign against European homosexuals in the Netherlands Indies at the end of the 1930s. Other topics are eerie skin diseases and the sanitary measures to eliminate them, and how misconceptions about lack of hygiene as the cause of illness hampered the finding of a cure. Attention is also drawn to differences in attitude towards performing personal body functions outdoors and retreating to the privacy of the bathroom, to traditional bathing ritual and to the modern tropical Spa culture as a manifestation of a New Asian lifestyle. With contributions by Bart Barendregt, Marieke Bloembergen, Kees van Dijk, Mary Somers Heidhues, David Henley, George Quinn, and Jean Gelman Taylor.

Author : Bart Barendregt
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 0857857959
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Green Consumption written by Bart Barendregt and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2014-02-27 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Green lifestyles and ethical consumption have become increasingly popular strategies in moving towards environmentally-friendly societies and combating global poverty. Where previously environmentalists saw excess consumption as central to the problem, green consumerism now places consumption at the heart of the solution. However, ethical and sustainable consumption are also important forms of central to the creation and maintenance of class distinction. Green Consumption scrutinizes the emergent phenomenon of what this book terms eco-chic: a combination of lifestyle politics, environmentalism, spirituality, beauty and health. Eco-chic connects ethical, sustainable and elite consumption. It is increasingly part of the identity kit of certain sections of society, who seek to combine taste and style with care for personal wellness and the environment. This book deals with eco-chic as a set of activities, an ideological framework and a popular marketing strategy, offering a critical examination of its manifestations in both the global North and South. The diverse case studies presented in this book range from Basque sheep cheese production and Ghanaian Afro-chic hairstyles to Asian tropical spa culture and Dutch fair-trade jewellery initiatives. The authors assess the ways in which eco-chic, with its apparent paradox of consumption and idealism, can make a genuine contribution to solving some of the most pressing problems of our time.

Author : Kate Hensler
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 : 9780866366434
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Health Clubs written by Kate Hensler and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A dazzling display of over 40 of the world's top physical fitness facilities.