Can a 1960s spa house be transformed into a stylish hotel? Oh, yes! The proof: the new “The Comodo” in the Austrian spa town of Bad Gastein, which now offers alpine wellness with a designer look. Architect Piotr Wisniewski describes what it took to make it happen.
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Reset: Decompress Your Body and Mind
Get a fresh start with this meditation from Headspace, led by Andy Puddicombe. This meditation encourages us to pause and restart between tasks….
Achim Biston spent holidays at Embachhof for more than 40 years, long before the old farmhouse and guesthouse became Puradies. We asked him what he particularly remembers from those holidays…
The World Capital of Architecture 2023 has begun. And Danish Architecture Center is proud to reveal the more than 50 exclusive sites you can visit during the Danish premiere of Open House Copenhagen…
Sydney’s new architectural icon, the 3XN-designed Quay Quarter Tower, was named World Building of the Year 2022 at the fifteenth annual World Architecture Festival (WAF) in Lisbon. It also won the International High-Rise Award 2022/23…
SOFACOMPANY: One’s own home should, above all, do one thing: make one happy. However, happiness and contentment mean different things to different people…
Can wellness be a sin? Certainly not in Puradies: the new “Heaven Spa” has been carefully integrated into the landscape with a view to sustainability .
In Chengdu, China, UNO Architects have created a forest within a forest with the Qionglai Bamboo Pavilion. A bamboo forest where you can relax, educate yourself and even dance…
The creation of a new tradition in the field of tension between craftsmanship and design…
With The Book 19th Edition, Lifestylehotels™ takes you to places where you can let loose. Discover not only new places, but also discover yourself. The world we would like to take you to is a world of allowing and mindfulness….
Would you like a little more? The bright colours and fun prints from Funky Staff are a real “vitamin boost”. They make our serotonin levels shoot up steeply and get us over the last cold days with a smile…
Iglucraft is an Estonian company founded in April 2014 with the aim to produce handmade wooden design saunas. Today Iglucraft produces not only saunas, but also wooden cabins made of natural materials. Iglucraft is now one of the leading manufacturers in this field…
The Klaus Tschira Foundation is supporting a project in which Nobel Prize winners put their prize-worthy ideas on paper with wax crayon…
iGuzzini’s Palco floodlights illuminate the medieval church of St. Giles, at the heart of the modern development of Barbican in London…
When it comes to fear, everything usually revolves around the question of how to get rid of it as quickly as possible. In her new book, Constanze Dennig takes a different approach: the specialist in neurology and psychiatry explains that fear also has its good sides – if you understand it and know how to use it…
The Out of Home range by LARS NYSØM is ideal for all those who love minimalist design and have high quality demands…
HOMMÉS Studio & TAPIS Studio present NEOCOSMOS – TAKE ME TO THE SUN, a cosmic exhibition that will take part in Milan Design Week 18-23 April on the Palazzo delle Meraviglie at Museo Bagatti Valsecchi on MonteNapoleone District.
Everything is changing, including the hotel industry. Two people who have experienced this process firsthand and helped shape it are Michael and Philipp Madreiter, brothers and Puradies hoteliers with a passion. Reasons enough to talk to them about the past, present and future of the industry…