AFS news

The Woodland Spa, a premier UK day spa located in Burnley, Lancashire, is set to unveil the results of its £16 million (US$20.5 million, €18.9 ... More

The Global Wellness Institute (GWI) has published the fourth edition of the Guide to Hydrothermal Spa & Wellness Development Standards The 230-page guide, developed in ... More

Hospitality group Loisium Wine and Spa Hotels has opened a new four-star spa hotel perched upon a hill in France's verdant Champagne province. With two ... More

Leading wellness supplier Klafs has been acquired by independent pan-European investment company Egeria. With Egeria as the majority shareholder, Klafs’ previous managing directors, Stefan Schöllhammer ... More

Hotel group Lošinj Hotels and Villas has unveiled a newly refurbished integrated fitness and wellness destination at its four-star hotel in Veli Lošinj, Croatia. The ... More

The first phase of a new 23ha (2,500,000sq ft) urban park designed by landscape architect Gustafson Porter + Bowman and built on the site of ... More

Speaking in the new edition of CLADmag, designer André Fu reveals how he found inspiration for his designs for the new St. Regis hotel. “I ... More

The city of Paris has selected London-based landscape design practice Gustafson Porter + Bowman (GP+B) to lead a €72m (US$80.3m, £63.5m) expansion of the Eiffel ... More

Chinese design practice AFSO have created a panoply of interior spaces at the St Regis, Hong Kong, a recently opened resort that has been likened ... More

The Global Wellness Institute (GWI) has released the top six trends in hydrothermal spa and wellness experiences as identified by the GWI’s Hydrothermal Initiative. One ... More

Destination wellness resort Civana in Arizona, US, has completed its nearly $US50m renovation with the grand opening of its new spa. Centred around a heritage ... More

The Spa at Silver Legacy has opened in northern Nevada, US as part of The Row’s US$100m renovation of the newly branded destination in Reno, ... More

US-based The National Academy of Sports Medicine (NASM) has renewed and expanded its partnership agreement with The Association of Fitness Studios (AFS). The partnership will ... More

Four design teams have been shortlisted for a project to reimagine the Eiffel Tower's visitor experience. Groups led by AL_A, Gustafson, Porter + Bowman, Agence ... More

The Prime Minister of Lebanon, Saad Hariri, has announced plans for a new museum of antiquities, which will be designed by Italian architect Renzo Piano. ... More

Design for Leisure (DFL) has revealed it will launch an associate wholesale business, called Spa Technology Professionals (SpaTecPro), in early 2018. The global venture will ... More

A Post-earthquake reconstruction and demonstration project in the city of Zhaotong, China, has been declared the 2017 World Building of the Year. Designed by a ... More

The UK’s new Holocaust Memorial and Learning Centre is to be built in London it was revealed today (24 October). The new national landmark will ... More

Ground has broken on a new contemporary art museum in San Antonio, Texas, with a design by British architect Sir David Adjaye that was inspired ... More

Alàbriga Hotel in Girona, Spain, has opened a day spa as part of a strategy to strengthen the boutique hotel’s wellness offering. The 650sq m ... More

UPDATE: A dramatic new museum celebrating some of the world’s most famous prehistoric cave art has opened at the Lascaux Cave complex in France. The ... More

Here are some of the stories that appeared on CLAD this week, from Foster + Partners’ Mecca hotel to Paulo Mendes da Rocha’s RIBA Gold ... More

Construction has begun on a large-scale public space in central Hong Kong, designed by landscape architects Gustafson Porter + Bowman, which will bring dense tropical ... More

The shortlisted designs for a £40m (US$50m, €47m) national Holocaust memorial and learning centre in London have today (27 January) gone on public display, revealing ... More

The National Museum and Dialogue Centre in Szczecin, Poland has been declared the World Building of the Year 2016. Polish architecture studio Robert Konieczny KWK ... More