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Opened in November 2025, wellness destination Hagastrand is situated in Stockholm’s royal park, Haga, and features Sweden’s largest spa. Housed in a historic building on a hilltop overlooking the Brunnsviken lake, Stockholm is visible in the distance. Designed by Scandinavian heavyweights Windgardhs Architects, the hotel and spa mirror the Nordic landscape with warm woods and stone, soft lighting and flowing lines creating a natural feeling of calm. The key aim [more...]

Lebanese architect Lina Ghotmeh has been named as one of the world’s most influential rising stars on the Time100 Next list. The founder of Lina Ghotmeh Architecture (LG-A), based in Paris, France, Ghotmeh was born and raised in Beirut, Lebanon and is known for projects that bring together sustainability, heritage and craftsmanship as part of a philosophy she calls ‘archaeology of the future’. Ghotmeh is currently working on the renovation [more...]

In this issue, we celebrate the importance of play, with a round up of gorgeous, imaginative, innovative playgrounds from around the world. The creative thinkers behind these projects are designing safe places to play while exploring solutions to critical issues, from the play pavilion that uses algae to filter polluted air to the imaginative new park created in consultation with Toronto’s Indigenous community that’s part of a wider initiative aimed [more...]

U rban Gym Group has opened its first new UK gym since acquiring Gymbox in October 2024, and the 22,000sq ft site in London’s Finsbury Park is set to become the blueprint for future clubs. The company has invested heavily in creating an innovative, recovery-focused health club with a nightclub feel. Architect and founder of AMP Patrick McKinney was responsible for the design, continuing his long-standing partnership with Gymbox that [more...]

M ore than two decades ago, Róisín Heneghan got a call that would change her life. When she was told that Heneghan Peng Architects had won the largest architectural competition in history, she initially thought someone was playing a prank. Once she confirmed that the small three-person architectural practice she ran with her architect husband Shi Fu Peng really had won the competition to design the Grand Egyptian Museum, the [more...]

'In Indigenous culture, it’s more important to understand where you come from than what you do for a living,” Alfred Waugh tells me, speaking from his office in Vancouver, Canada. “When I sit down with an Indigenous Elder, they want to know – who are you? Not how many letters do you have after your name?” For Waugh, who he is and where he comes from is inextricably bound up [more...]

Fondation Cartier’s new home has opened alongside the Musée du Louvre in central Paris, with a flexible design by Jean Nouvel featuring five moveable floors. Nouvel overhauled the former five-storey Haussman-era department store to create the new contemporary art museum, featuring 8,300sq m of public spaces, of which 6,500sq m are dedicated exhibition space. The design for the museum was inspired by Nouvel’s vision of a giant, internal ‘machine’ with [more...]

F ew buildings encapsulate a city’s rise, fall and renewal as vividly as Michigan Central Station. When it opened in 1913, the 10-platform railway station stood as a monument to Detroit’s explosive ascent. The city’s population had doubled in a decade, fuelled by auto factories that would soon reshape global transportation. Michigan Central’s Beaux-Arts hall and 13-storey office tower were placed just outside the booming core, visible for miles as [more...]

Diébédo Francis Kéré has unveiled plans for the Museum Ehrhardt, a 14,000-square-foot institution dedicated to photography and contemporary art in Plüschow, northern Germany. The project marks Kéré’s first cultural project in Germany and first museum building in Europe. The building has been designed to integrate with its surroundings, featuring a green roof and the use of natural materials including wood and clay. It features an 80m-long rammed earth wall running along the centre axis [more...]

Architecture and design firm Gensler have unveiled details of a new masterplan that sees more than 10 million square metres of neglected land transformed into a forward-looking ecological and urban district for Baghdad. Part of the rehabilitation of the Iraqi capital, Baghdad Sustainable Forests will feature an expansive network of forests, parks and green corridors. Early proposals outline a series of themed forests – including arts and culture, health and [more...]

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Driven by concern about the impact of flying on the environment and a surge in interest in slow travel, sleeper trains are making a surprise comeback, particularly in Europe. Existing operators are bringing back neglected routes and creating new ones, while new entrants are shaking things up. Just as in the golden age of rail travel, the journey is as important as the destination, and these trains are designed to [more...]

Family-owned Alpine resort Hotel Lürzerhof in Austria’s SalzburgerLand has revealed plans for a €10 million (US$10.9 million, £8.5 million) expansion. The resort will be closed for four months from April before reopening in July 2026 with two new floors and a redesigned spa. The new floors will rise from the existing main building, with design by architects Köck and Bachler.  Harald Habersatter, owner, Hotel Lürzerhof, told Spa Business exclusively: “This [more...]

I have never worked on anything like this before,” says Jacques Herzog, the architect responsible for the new Calder Gardens in Philadelphia, US. “There was literally no brief. I felt like an artist, waking up every morning without someone telling me what to do. Architecture is never this free.” Calder Gardens celebrates the work of 20th century boundary-pushing sculptor Alexander ‘Sandy’ Calder, best known for his kinetic, abstract ‘mobiles’, and monumental [more...]

A social third space called Lore Bathing Club has opened in New York City’s NoHo neighbourhood, offering a contrast bathing membership model. The business has been set up by two co-founders: entrepreneur James O’Reilly, who is a co-founder of the co-working membership club NeueHouse, a company that has now been bought by Convene Hospitality Group after filing for bankruptcy late last year.  Lore’s second co-founder is hospitality concept creator and [more...]

Marriott International will debut The Luxury Collection Punta Cana resort in the Dominican Republic in Q4 2026 with a tropical destination spa called Playa Serena Spa. The property is owned by Grupo Puntacana and the 1,200sq m spa has been designed by Ana Ramirez of Kala Design Group. Other collaborators on the project include Lynn Curry of Curry Spa Consulting; interior design by Susurrus and landscape architecture by Maat Handasa. [more...]

Japanese hotel owner and operator Hoshino Resorts Inc’s CEO, Yoshiharu Hoshino, has shared his ambition to develop onsen ryokan globally in an exclusive interview with Spa Business. Read the full profile of Hoshino in the latest edition of the magazine here.   Hoshino Resorts now operates 70 properties across Japan, Bali, Taiwan, Guam and soon the US.  The company boasts ¥250,915 million (US$1.6 billion, €1.4 billion, £1.2 billion) in total [more...]

Upscale independent hotel, Arabella Hotel Sedona, in Arizona, US, will build an extensive hydrotherapy spa using a US$25 million (€23.0 million, £19.5 million) construction loan. The loan was arranged by real estate investment banking firm Arriba Capital, which specialises in hotel debt and structured finance. The new hydrothermal spa The hydrotherapy spa has been designed by architects Erwin Architecture and Development and LemayMichaud. Tim Valaski, Vice President at Arriba Capital, [more...]

Viceroy is developing a resort with a rainforest spa on the Bocas del Toro peninsula in Panama. The Viceroy resort and branded residences will form part of a 165-hectare development called CasiCielo, which translates from Spanish to “Almost Heaven”. Design collaborators include Zurcher Arquitectos and Wimberly Interiors. The whole site will have 700 guestrooms and 700 residential units when it is complete. The destination is a partnership between VHG, West [more...]