Wellness architecture
An overview of projects, products and exclusive articles about wellness architecture
Project • By ft3 Architecture • Hospitals
Grace Hospital Emergency Department
Emergency departments are complicated, overwhelming, and hectic, creating incompatible environments for visitors seeking care and the staff providing it. Patients and their families can better comprehend and find the support they require when navigating logically planned healthcare environments.
In Winnipeg, MB, the Grace Hospital required a deep modernization of its emergency department, addressing the form and function to improve patient experience and flow while addressing environmental bottlenecks that hinder nurses, doctors, paramedics, and EMTs from providing meaningful care.
Leif Norman
Leif Norman
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The design theme Pathways emerged to facilitate a common language between each space'... More
Project • By AVR Development • Wellness Centres
ONSEN
The concept is shaped around a preserved pine forest and natural thermal waters, where the idea of daily restoration is embedded into the very way of life. It is designed for people who value a balance between activity and quiet, who work in dynamic environments yet need regular physical and mental recovery without leaving the city.The key feature is the fusion of an urban квартал typology, suburban living, and a resort: perimeter block development forms a protected inner forest core, while the architecture operates below the tree canopy, avoiding competition with nature. The concept is reinforced by the Japanese philosophy of onsen — as a ritual of silence, water, and balance — expressed through spa infrastructure, thermal bath... More
Project • By Soong Lab • Wellness Centres
Joyous Spring Wellness Center
The Joyous Spring Wellness Center, designed by Soong Lab—founded and directed by architect Wang Songtao—is located just beyond Beijing’s Fifth Ring Road, with a site area of approximately 8,200 square meters. As a project of adaptive reuse, it is centered around water as a core element. Through structural adjustments, interior reconfiguration, and the addition of new programs, the design revitalizes an idle building, giving it renewed purpose and spatial significance. The space now functions as a holistic urban retreat—an immersive destination that integrates hot spring bathing, therapy, spa services, dining, and short-stay accommodations.
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Project • By NUQUE arquitetura • Shops
Alo Yoga
The Alo Yoga store is a true temple of well-being and conscious living — where fashion, movement, and mindfulness come together in perfect harmony. With a minimalist, welcoming, and functional design, the space invites customers to explore apparel and accessories that blend high performance, comfort, and style, thoughtfully designed for both yoga practice and everyday life.
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More than just a store, it is an extension of the brand’s philosophy: to live with presence, purpose, and balance — promoting a shopping experience that inspires a deep connection between body, mind, and spirit.
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Product • By Phos Design GmbH • Small round towel hook (3.7 cm long)
Small round towel hook (3.7 cm long)
Small, round stainless steel towel hook, 3.7 cm long. Screwed, classic modern design - slim profile and narrow head. Pleasant feel with radially ground face.
DimensionsTotal length 4 cmHead Ø2x0.3 cmRod Ø1.2x3.4 cm
Universal areas of applicationHigh-quality towel hook for kitchens and bathrooms, spa and wellness areas, hotels, healthcare buildings and other demanding environments - even outdoors.
InstallationStable concealed screw fitting without rosette in the bathroom - also on tiles or stoneware. Rear mounting is possible. Please specify when ordering.
Origin + processingPrecisely manufactured in Germany from solid stainless steel, brushed and hand-polished for a silky matt surface with concentric round grinding on the... More
News • News • 25 Jan 2024
Horatio’s Garden Room provides a nurturing environment for people with spinal cord injuries
London-based Mcmullan Studio designed a sustainable, pod-like building for Horatio's Garden, a charity that promotes the well-being of people with spinal cord injury in beautifully landscaped, accessible gardens in the heart of NHS spinal cord injury centers (the NHS is the UK's National Health Service). Created by leading landscape designers, the gardens are peaceful, inspiring and restorative oases for patients, their families and friends and hospital staff to enjoy.
Jim Stephenson
Best in Show
The pod-like garden room was created for Horatio's Garden as part of the charity's first show garden at the prestigious RHS Chelsea Flower Show in 2023. The project was created in collaboration with landscape design firm Harris B... More
News • News • 30 Oct 2023
Neri&Hu’s Sanya Wellness Retreat is inspired by an ancient Chinese walled city
Sanya Wellness Retreat is located in Haitang Bay on Hainan Island, a popular Chinese resort destination in the South China Sea. Designed by Shanghai-based Neri&Hu Design and Research Office, the wellness retreat is inspired by the majesty of an ancient Chinese walled city — raised on a plinth, wooden pavilions were usually surrounded by water for protection. Neri&Hu’s design is thus defined by two parts: a large wooden dwelling that contains guest rooms on top of a masonry base that consists of various public spaces and amenities.
Neri&Hu Design and Research Office
Neri&Hu Design and Research Office
Neri&Hu Design and Research Office
Spread across an area of 83,000 square meters (8... More
News • Detail • 15 Jun 2023
Detail: Design of “the village upside down”
Hub of Huts is a real-life Alice-in-Wonderland construction that is mysterious and mischievous, enchanting and entrancing. Described as “the village upside down,” it is a project by architectural firm NOA. Located in Olang, a municipality in South Tyrol in northern Italy, Hub of Huts is a dedicated well-being center that belongs to the Hotel Hubertus.
Alex Filz
The interplay of perspectives
NOA first designed the hotel’s impressive cantilevered swimming pool in 2016, envisioned by the studio as “a rock stranded between earth and sky.” Asked by the hotel’s owners to create a new well-being extension, the pool served as inspiration for the project. When observing how the surrounding lands... More
Product • By Gessi • Gessi Sogni
Gessi Sogni
A spectacular interplay of mirrors creates a temporary spell that allows you to step outside to experience a moment of personal well-being that seems eternal: SOGNI creates the optical illusion of an endless universe.Water, light and colour stimulate the senses and create an almost transcendental effect. With a play of reflection and refraction of LEDs, glass and mirrors, the multifunctional SOGNI showerhead offers a trick of perspectives that endlessly multiplies the vertical vision. The moment of the contact with the water becomes adreamlike experience that frees the imagination. SOGNI is a joyful symbol of sensory infinity that generates an endless light tunnel to find yourself at the centre of your own cosmos. Three water jets, rain, ca... More
News • News • 26 Sep 2022
Forest House by Inblum Architects reflects the local spirit of the Lithuanian landscape
Reflecting the local spirit and context, this reconstructed residential house in Lithuania’s Pavilnys Regional Park retains a link to the past while sensitively meeting the needs of a modern house. Anchored into the terrain and surrounding old apple orchard, the house by Inblum Architects sits at ease in its environment.
Norbert Tukaj
The existing residential building and adjacent rebuilt structures form the core of the newly formed building complex. Inside the restrained gable volumes, space is deconstructed in a such a way as to afford for terraces, beautiful views to ski areas, intimate spaces, and plenty of natural light.
Norbert Tukaj
Indoor to outdoor connections are a dominant theme of the house. Thes... More
News • News • 26 Sep 2022
Gravity vanishes and the unexpected emerges at new wellbeing extension by noa* network of architecture
Following completion of their iconic cantilevered pool project in Hubertus, Olang, in 2016, noa* network of architecture completed an addition to the site with the completion of a new wellbeing extension. As with the original pool, gravity seems to vanish and the unexpected emerges.
Alex Filz
The architects sought to materialize in the extension what one sees mirrored on the surface of the pool as if it is a transient rendering ready to be converted into reality.
Playing with the horizon line and the perception of being upside down, project architect Lukas Rungger explains, “The essence of this project is the overturning over horizons, with the resulting effect of wonder for the observer. If you think about it, however, cha... More