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Best of Year 2009 Winner: Moneo&Brock Studio

Best of Year -- Interior Design, 12/1/2009 12:00:00 AM

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Best of Year Winner, Spa / Fitness: Moneo&Brock Studio: Tiberio's Thermal Baths, Panticosa
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The crown jewel of Spain's posh Panticosa Resort, Termas de Tiberio sits between a pine-covered mountainside, a 19th-century church, and hotels by Pritzker Architecture Prize winners Rafael Moneo and Álvaro Siza. It's Moneo's daughter's firm, in fact, that designed Termas de Tiberio. Belén Moneo and her husband, Jeff Brock, wrapped the undulating exterior of the 91,500-square-foot thermal spa in translucent white glass blocks. Inside the 25-foot-high lobby, wall panels and balustrades are gray-veined alabaster, which glows as daylight shines through. Upper-level pool areas flaunt multicolored, boldly patterned bands of glass mosaic tiles, bluestone, and lapis. Decor never overwhelms nature, however. Bathers are always aware of their topographical surroundings, thanks to the occasional boulder left to protrude from the middle of the marble floor.

IÑIGO COBETA; SILVIA FERNÁNDEZ; DAVID GOSS; MATHIAS SCHÚTTE; BENJAMÍN LLANA; BRENDA MOCZYGEMBA; MARÍA PIERRES; SANDRA FORMIGO; ANDREA CAPUTO; SPENCER LEAF; ANDRÉS BARRÓN; CLARA MONEO: PROJECT TEAM.

Best of Year Merit Awards, Spa / Fitness

Aidlin Darling Design: Sonoma Spa Retreat, Sonoma, CA

Partially hidden in a grove of oak trees, this cedar-clad building is reached by descending a staircase between two curved walls of board-formed concrete.

BAMO: Four Seasons Resort Bora Bora, Bora Bora, French Polynesia

Reception is in a 100-foot-high atrium, while treatments take place in the open air, beneath thatched roofs.

Elliott + Associates Architects: Chesapeake Fitness Center/East Addition, Oklahoma City, OK

This glassed-in fitness center offers group workout studios, colorful climbing walls, basketball and squash courts, and a penthouse boxing loft.

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