{"id":192051,"date":"2022-01-07T11:32:06","date_gmt":"2022-01-07T16:32:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/interiordesign.net\/?post_type=id_project&p=192051"},"modified":"2023-11-16T17:32:06","modified_gmt":"2023-11-16T22:32:06","slug":"rdc-designs-its-largest-equinox-gym-yet-in-san-francisco","status":"publish","type":"id_project","link":"https:\/\/interiordesign.net\/projects\/rdc-designs-its-largest-equinox-gym-yet-in-san-francisco\/","title":{"rendered":"RDC Designs its Largest Equinox Gym Yet in San Francisco"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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January 7, 2022<\/p>\n\n

Words: <\/span>Jane Margolies<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n

Photography: <\/span>Benny Chan\/Fotoworks<\/a><\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n

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RDC Designs its Largest Equinox Gym Yet in San Francisco<\/h1>\n\n\n

2021 Best of Year winner for Fitness<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n

San Diego. Los Angeles.<\/a> Now add San Francisco to the locations of exercise facilities that RDC<\/a>, or Retail Design Collaborative, has completed for Equinox. The firm\u2019s latest gym for the brand occupies three floors of a landmarked 1960s office tower and features clever custom-crafted elements. Take the wood screen that defines the concierge area on the first level of the 35,600-square-foot space. Made of CNC-milled white oak, the screen provides a dynamic layering of geometric patterns\u2014a \u201cplayful dichotomy of privacy and openness,\u201d RDC associate principal and senior design director Jonathan Lopez says. The ceiling fixture above it, a weave of curved bronze rods and handblown glass, visually leads members and visitors onward.<\/p>\n\n\n

On two, a portal to the wellness suite\u2014containing lockers, showers, sauna, and spa\u2014is composed of vertical steel plates and glass panels that are micro-ribbed on one side and back-painted a metallic copper on the other. The composition captures light and movement, creating a kinetic visual effect. But calmness reigns in the third-floor yoga and barre studio, where the ceiling incorporates radiant heating technology and soft, ambient lighting from rectangular soffits. Connecting all levels is a floating staircase surrounded by a continuous concrete-panel sheath. Now that\u2019s a physical feat.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Equinox San Francisco by RDC.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n
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Equinox San Francisco by RDC.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n
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Equinox San Francisco by RDC.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n
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Equinox San Francisco by RDC.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n
PROJECT TEAM:<\/h6><\/div>\n\n\n
RDC<\/span><\/a>: Mitra Esfandiari; Jonathan Lopez; Joseph Tran; Constance Rosado; \nHaleh Johnson; Lana Smolskaya<\/span><\/section>\n\n<\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n
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