Architect: PAL Design Consultants Ltd, Patrick Leung
Location: Shanghai, China
Photographs:  Courtesy of PAL Design

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© Miran Kambič

Architects: Enota
Location: Podčetrtek, Slovenia
Project Team: Dean Lah, Milan Tomac, Petra Ostanek, Anže Zalaznik, Eva Matjašič, Darko Vasiljevič, Mojca Žerjav
Client: Terme Olimia
Landscape Architecture: Bruto
Structure: Elea iC
Mechanical Engineer: Proinstal
Electrical Installation: Elita IB
Project Area: 15,200 sqm
Budget: 12,000,000 EUR
Project Year: 2006
Photographs: Miran Kambič

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Architects: Enota
Location: Podčetrtek, Slovenia
Project Team: Dean Lah, Milan Tomac, Maruša Zupančič, Nuša Završnik, Zana Starovič, Anna Kravcova, Polona Ruparčič, Marko Volf, Sabina Sakelšek, Esta Matkovič, Darja Zubac, Dean Jukić, Nebojša Vertovšek, Tjaša Marinšek
Client: Terme Olimia
Landscape Architecture: Bruto
Structure: Elea iC
Climatisation & Plumbing: Nombiro
Electrical Instalation: Forte inženiring
Project Area: 9,990 sqm
Budget: 13,000,000 EUR
Project Year: 2009
Photographs: Miran Kambič

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Architect: Claudia Meier
Location: Meilen/Zurich, Switzerland
Client: Manuela Daluz
Project Year: 2009-2010
Photographs: Claudia Meier

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Architects: Parasite Studio
Location: Timisoara, Lulius Mall, Romania
Project Area: 2,000 sqm
Project Year: 2010
Photographs: DUMITRAŞCU Marius & Parasite Studio

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Ferrari World Abu Dhabi, the world’s first Ferrari theme park and largest attraction of its kind, has announced that it will open its doors to the public on October 28, 2010, three weeks ahead of the second Formula 1™ Etihad Airways Abu Dhabi Grand Prix.

Ferrari World Abu Dhabi will pay tribute to the passion, excellence, performance, and technical innovation that Ferrari has established over the years and represents today. Its iconic sleek red roof is directly inspired by the classic double curve side profile of the Ferrari GT body, spanning 200,000 m² and carrying the largest Ferrari logo ever created.

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© Alexandre Kapellos

Architects: XPACE architecture + urban design / Maud Cassaignau, Markus Jung
Location: Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Realization: Maud Cassaignau
Engineer: Reto Bonomo
Contractor: Prefalux
Project Area: 86 sqm
Project Year: 2006–2009
Photographs: Alexandre Kapellos

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Enjoy a sports center, cut your hair or relax at a spa. Part III of our leisure architecture selection has some amazing projects. Enjoy them all after the break.

Mizu Spa / Stanley Saitowitz | Natoma Architects
Mizu is water, which Mizu Spa embodies. The atmosphere is a tranquil stream. At the center is a river of rock, around which the communal therapy barge floats in space. The walls are draped in shimmering mesh creating light and fluid edges. The horizontal surfaces of floor and ceiling are black. Everything else is pure and white (read more…) read more »

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Architects: Block Architecture
Location: London, England
Structural Engineer: Price & Myers
Services Engineer: Furness Green
Main Contractor: Matteblak Ltd
Client: Anna Forsling
Project Area: 67 sqm
Budget: £157,550.00
Project Year: 2009
Photographs: Leon Chew

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© Toshiyuki Yano / Nacasa & Partners

Architects: Suppose design office
Location: Hiroshima city, Hiroshima, Japan
Project Team: Makoto Tanijiri, Masafumi Shimatani
Client: Yusuke Yamamoto
Total Floor Area: 83.99 sqm
Project Year: 2009
Photographs: Toshiyuki Yano

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© Nacasa & Partners

Architect: Gwenael Nicolas – Curiosity
Location: Interlaken, Switzerland
Client: Kanebo Cosmetics Inc.
Project Year: 2009
Photographs: Nacasa & Partners

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© Yuichi Higurashi

Architects: Archivision
Location: Tokyo, Japan
Principals in Charge: Yoshihiro Hirotani & Yusaku Ishida
Structural Engineers: Umezawa Structural Engineers
Mechanical Engineers: Azu Planning
General Contractor: Daido Housing
Site Area: 67.88 sqm
Constructed Area: 108.31 sqm
Project Year: 2008-2009
Photographs: Yuichi Higurashi

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© Cesar Rubio

Architects: Stanley Saitowitz | Natoma Architects
Location: San Francisco, CA, USA
Project team: Stanley Saitowitz, Alan Tse
Acoustics Consultant: Colin Gordon & Associates
Mechanical Engineering: MHC Engineers, Inc.
Audio Visual Consultant: Pacific Audio Video
General Contractor: Landmark Construction
Project year: 2006
Photographs: Cesar Rubio

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It’s Friday. Time to relax. So are these great leisure projects. And in case you missed it, check our first part of leisure Round Up right here.

4 Islands in Maldives / OFIS arhitekti
The government of Maldives runs every few years a bid for the islands that investors can rent for 25 years. The bid has to contain also a concept and architectural proposal for the resort. The extra challenge was developing environmentally friendly, ecologically sensitive and self-sustaining model of 4 different islands (read more…)

Showroom and Leisure Center / Manuelle Gautrand Architecture
French architects Manuelle Gautrand Architecture shared with us their new showroom and leisure center design for Cairo, Egypt. The concrete structure consists of connecting circles and spherical cavities that create a flexible interior allowing users to seamlessly flow through different showrooms (read more…)

Natasha Skin Care / TWS & Partners
The building is about 1,000 square meter building coverage and located at the heart of the city in Bandung. The client want to make something iconic for the architecture as it will be launch as their first new building concept. The program will consist of huge lobby which also serve as a reception and waiting area, a drug store (read more…)

Beachclub / Spanjers Architect
On the beach of Westkapelle, a small coastal town in the Netherlands, recently a new beachclub called ‘Zuiderduin’ has opened its doors for the public. A building with a maximum outdoor floor surface where people can enjoy a snack, a drink and a beautiful view on the beach and the North Sea, when they go to the coast (read more…)

Super Sense Spa 2 / KUU
A few years ago, there were many old buildings being demolished in downtown Shanghai. Walking around the city’s streets, one often saw half-destroyed houses with some of their walls ripped off, exposing rooms with peeling wallpaper, faded pastel-coloured walls, rectangles of ceramic-tiles where bathrooms or kitchens were (read more…)

© Stephan Lucas

Architect: KOZ Architectes / Christophe Ouhayoun – Nicolas Ziesel
Location: Saint-Cloud, France
Project team: Ambrus Evva, François Kharatt
Structural Engineers: EVP Ingénierie
Contractor: Delta Fluides
Acoustic Consultant: Delphi Acoustique
Budget: $3.8M Euro
Project Area: 1,600 sqm
Project year: 2007-2009
Photographs: © Stephan Lucas

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© Manuel Villa

Architect: Manuel Villa
Location: Bogota, Colombia
Collaborators: Arq. Alberto González, Ana María Largacha (Gardens)
Construction: Arq. Manuel Villa
Project area: 7,5 sqm
Project year: 2009
Photographs: Manuel Villa / Sergio Gómez

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© Jeremy San

Architects: KUU
Location: Shanghai, China
Project year: 2009
Project area: 220 sqm
Photographs: Jeremy San of stzernstudio

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Architect: Spanjers Architect
Location: Westkapelle, The Netherlands
Client: Fletcher Hotel Group
Footprint: 370 sqm
Project year: 2009
Photographs: Spanjers Architect

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Architects: TWS & Partners
Location: Bandung, Indonesia
Principal in charge: Tonny W Suriadjaja
Project team: Inge, Budi Setiawan, Grace Dian, Arianto
Client: Private
Structural engineers: Habitat
Lighting design: TWS & Partners
Main contractor: Habitat
Glass skin specialist: Eztu Glass
Constructed area: 1,000 sqm
Design year: 2006
Construction year: 2007
Photographs: Hartama Barus

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