A new 9,000sq ft spa is planned as part of the Laterra residential development at Florida’s World Golf Village in the US.
Designed by Robert D Henry Architects of New York, the PGA Tour Spa Laterra will offer a range of services including therapeutic massage, hot stone treatments, hydrotherapy services, tropical body scrubs, detoxifying mud wraps and aromatherapy facials.
As well as a number of indoor treatment rooms and a circular relaxation room with a central fountain, the spa will boast an outdoor garden and large reflecting pool containing three floating, wooden teahouses acting as massage pavilions.
The infinity-edge pool also leads to an outdoor hot tub.
A further couples’ treatment room overlooks the garden but also offers its own garden and fountain.
Robert Henry said the spa has been designed as a series of ‘distinctive sensory environments’ incorporating the ‘soothing energy of water in its many forms – fountains, streams, pools and reflecting ponds’.
“I look at the spa experience as a sensuous journey,” he said. “I want each person to slow down to experience the environment through all five senses.”
The 41-acre Laterra resort is a luxury community being developed within the World Golf Village’s King & Bear golf course – the only course to have been jointly designed by Arnold Palmer and Jack Nicklaus.
It will contain studios as well as a mixture of one-, two-, three- and four-bedroom units with the main building, which will house the spa, due for completion at the end of this year.
The World Golf Village also includes a further gold course, the Slammer & Squire; the Seranata Beach Club; the World Golf Hall of Fame and the World Golf IMAX Theater.
Robert D Henry has designed many day and destination spas around the world; including the Mar-a-Lago Club in Palm Beach, the Spa at Le Reve in Las Vegas, the Amelia Island Plantation Spa and the Bay Club Beach Club and Spa in Waikoloa Village, Hawaii. Details: www.laterrahome.com or www.rdh-architects.com
