Wellness Will Enjoy a Tailwind as a Design Theme for Resorts and Cities: The Long View This Week
Photo Credit: EDSA provided master planning through construction administration services for this $1 billion development in the center of Al Maryah Island in Abu Dhabi. The 3.1 million square feet of mixed-use space showcases the importance of design in creating community. EDSA
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Design's importance to travel has taken on a new urgency because of recent events, says Richard Centolella, the pioneering design thinker. We agree, and welcome all the new functionalities.
Design is now everything in the reopening of travel. So how does design within its various industries change from here?
The crisis will speed up some trends that were already in the offing, said Richard D. Centolella, principal at EDSA, a landscape architectural design and planning group.
Centolella has helped his U.S.-based firm work on travel and hospitality projects worldwide, such as Atlantis in Bahamas, Four Seasons Resort in Disney World Orlando, Madinat Jumeirah in Dubai, and a modernization of the John F. Kennedy Center for Performing Arts in D.C.
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