wellness & spa
Café converts into health spa
UNDER-UTILISED space at The Pyramids in Portsmouth has been turned into income-generating facilities as part of a £2.2m facelift. Createability remodelled underused
areas around the fun pool, function room and banqueting to provide a health spa, fitness suite, soft play area and new café. The original Splashdown Café, with a vast seating overspill area that opened onto the poolside, was demolished and converted into an elegant 375sq m health spa with its own dedicated reception area and changing facilities. Costing more than £400,000 and
representing around 25 per cent of the total building contract, the Pyramids Spa is fitted by Helo and features an ice fountain, monsoon shower, four foot spas, salt grotto, sauna, a 15sq m steam room and three treatment rooms, as well as a heated
lounger experience with electrically heated warm tiled benches. The steam room features a central pyramid from which steam gently wafts into the room. Three hexagonal shaped booths provide seating. “One of the many hurdles we faced was
to fully enclose the spa from the pool element and its 32o ambient temperature,” says Ian Cotgrave, managing director of Createability. “We also had to build customised rooms within an extremely bespoke area, as we pushed the spa walls right up to the poolside to make the most of the available space, which left us with odd angular areas created around the shape of the fun pool. Rather than using off-the- shelf sauna products, Helo maximised the internal design by creatively using the corners with the spa areas,” he says.
www.createability.co.uk,
www.helo.co.uk Eastern promise
BARR + WRAY has secured a €900,0000 contract in Baku, Azerbaijan which will see the company further enhance its reach in the Middle East. The Glasgow-based company has landed a contract to design and install all the major spa and pool facilities at Baku’s new Four Seasons Hotel. Barr + Wray will be responsible for installing the steam rooms, saunas, hamams, rasuls and ice fountains for the new ninth floor rooftop spa at the hotel.
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bflmagazine.co.uk Set to open later in 2011, the 175-room
hotel is inspired by 19th century French architecture and is set to be one of the largest hotels in the area. The contract in Baku is the latest in a
string of business wins in the East for Barr + Wray and comes in the wake of further deals in Turkey where Barr + Wray will act as consultants for the new six star luxury hotel in Istanbul, providing engineering advice on the indoor and outdoor pools planned for the resort.
Once completed the hotel will have approximately 50 heat experience cabins, including saunas and steam rooms. Barr + Wray has also completed a design and supply contract for the swimming pools at Istanbul’s first ever seven star complex. The firm has supplied both a lap and vitality pool for the €100m project which was recently launched by Palmali Holding and Marriot Hotels.
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The spa walls were pushed right up to the poolside to make the most of the available space
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