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Ministry of Design (MOD) have completed an all-white co-living house aimed at making the residents its "prominent features" and giving them a blank canvas for the future. Canvas House is set in a heritage shophouse in Singapore and is intended to inspire dreams about what could be while retaining historical
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Joe Wicks, the personal trainer who has become a global star thanks to his daily exercise sessions for families, is understood to be in talks with at least two major UK TV channels. Broadcasting 30-minute exercise sessions each morning through his BodyCoach TV YouTube channel, Wicks is getting families – stuck
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A newly opened department store in South Korea, designed by OMA, has the appearance of a rock with a gemstone seam running through it. Created for luxury retailer Galleria, the store has a gross floor area of 137,000sq m (1,475,000sq ft) and is located in the town of Gwanggyo, just south of Seoul. Textured
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Spa consultancy, TLee Spas, has unveiled Spa Alkemia at Zadún, a Ritz-Carlton Reserve, in Los Cabos, Mexico. The 30,000sq ft spa’s treatments and design are inspired by Mexican traditions and culture with a natural aesthetic. ‘Alkemia’ – alchemy in Spanish – has a focus on positive transformation and a
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American architect, critic and educator Michael Sorkin has died as a result of complications associated with COVID-19, it has been announced. Sorkin founded his Michael Sorkin Studio design practice in 1980, growing the firm from its base in New York to open additional offices in the Chinese cities of Shanghai
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OdySea Aquarium in Scottsdale, Arizona, has launched two online initiatives to help keep guests entertained and engaged with the aquarium during its enforced closure. The first, called 'Your Oceanic Adventure… From Home', is an e-learning series, available on the aquarium's website, that offers educational
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Hollywood star Chris Hemsworth is making his online fitness programme Centrfit available for free for the next six weeks. The Australian actor and fitness enthusiast – whose role as Thor in the Marvel blockbusters has made him one of the highest-paid actors in the world – announced the move on his Instagram
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American Council on Exercise (ACE) has urged US policymakers to not leave the fitness sector's independent contractors, sole proprietors and small family businesses behind in its efforts to prop up US economy during the Coronavirus outbreak. Speaking exclusively to HCM, Graham Melstrand, ACE's executive vice
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All of the national parks in Congo and Rwanda featuring primates have closed their doors to visitors in an effort to avoid Africa's endangered mountain gorillas and chimpanzees from contracting COVID-19. According to experts, primates are very likely to be sucesptible to the disease, with complications arising
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Humphrey Cobbold, CEO of Pure Gym, appeared on BBC Question Time last night (26 March 2020), along with Richard Horton, editor-in-chief of The Lancet, Emily Thornberry, shadow foreign secretary and Robert Jenrick, housing, communities and local government secretary. The ‘audience’ was beamed in via
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The International WELL Building Institute (IWBI) has created a task force that will define the role buildings, organisations and communities can play in tackling COVID-19 and other respiratory illnesses. The Task Force on Coronavirus will focus on how the places in which we spend our lives can support respiratory
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Holistic medical wellness resort The Farm at San Benito, Philippines, is offering an immune system strengthening programme designed to protect the body’s cells and enable them to fight infection. Since it opened in 2002, the resort’s team of certified medical and wellness experts has focused on integrated
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Cognitive Design have designed a gym in Georgia, US, with an emphasis on shared experiences, body image, dignity, motivation and community engagement. Clarity Fitness describes itself as "the place for people anywhere in their fitness journey who want to become active participants in a healthy life. It is a place
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Local residents and businesses have come to the aid of a zoo which said it might have to euthanise animals after panic buying disrupted its supply feed. The Tropiquaria Zoo in Somerset, UK, made and urgent appeal for members of the public to donate spare fruit and vegetables to local zoos, with empty shelves and
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The British Association of Leisure Parks, Piers and Attractions (BALPPA) has postponed its upcoming expo and tradeshow in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. The show, which was originally meant to take place in April, will now take place from 24 - 26 November 2020 at Drayton Manor in Staffordshire, UK. During
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German skincare brand Babor has announced it has reached climate neutrality. The brand uses green electricity, photovoltaics, and climate-neutral renewable natural gas, production at its headquarters in Aachen, Germany, which has been carbon-neutral since 2014. Working together with a carbon footprint offset
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Waterfrom Design's Exhibition of Frozen Time spa in Beijing, China, was conceived to eschew the traditional impression of Chinese medicine in favour of a more clinical and technological approach. Created for Aqua Health Clinic, the facility was conceived to use "medical principles of pulse diagnosis, medication
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ClassPass will begin offering its partners the opportunity to live-stream classes through its app and website. The fitness subscription platform will make the service available immediately and will keep it open at least until 1 June 2020. ClassPass hopes to use its database of more than one million
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Gym operators are pivoting to digital in a stampede to engage with members during the coronavirus shutdown, with David Lloyd Leisure (DLL) being the latest operator to show its hand. David Lloyd Clubs @Home – just announced – will offer a range of virtual and live streaming workouts, as well as advice and
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Hotel and hospitality designer Jean-Philippe Nuel has explained that working on older buildings often makes for more interesting results. Speaking to CLAD in an interview, Nuel said: "Paradoxically, historic buildings often result in more creative projects than new builds because the constraints mean certain
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Fitness giant Technogym will enable club operators to offer at-home training and coaching services to members remotely via its Mywellness Cloud platform. Aiming to keep members engaged and motivated while gyms are temporarily shut, the Mywellness app will offer a workout of the day challenge, with three new
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Dade City's Wild Things (DCWT), a privately-owned animal park in Dade, Florida, has been banned from possessing endangered tigers, a court has ruled. The United States District Court in Tampa handed down the judgement earlier this week following a three-year court battle in which the People for the Ethical
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Universal has revealed that it's continuing work on its Super Nintendo expansion in Japan, its new theme park in Orlando and its Beijing theme park despite the ongoing COVID-19 outbreak. Universal will not welcome visitors to any of its resorts until at least April, but an update from Universal Parks and Resorts
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Deepak Chopra’s wellness company – Chopra – has partnered with The Well to unite people in a call to action to stay home and have hope through a free live-streamed global meditation event called H(om)e. Chopra works to advance a culture of wellbeing through a mix of digital content, live events and personalised
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Boutique fitness brand Frame has launched an 'online studio', offering a selection of virtual exercise classes for its members to take part in at home. The Frame Online platform has been designed to keep members engaged and will offer three genres of workouts with a "class to suit every mood". The Sweat,
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