Source: Eat Golf - 2006
Practice design
Dans certains clubs, le practise est une vague étendue verte avec quelques drapeaux ou deux trois excités en jeans tapent de vieilles balles. Au récent forum KPMG sur le golf qui s´est tenu au golf d´Aphrodite Hills à Chypre (voir fairways numéro 6), le practise du futur a été présenté par Stan Colders, fondateur de Mind:Style, et nous a rendus fous !Mind:Style est un collectif d´architectes et de designers belges basé à Anvers passionnés de golf qui veulent s´inscrire dans les tendances du futur. Ils se définissent eux mêmes comme les meilleurs, les plus créatifs, les plus innovateurs, pour littéralement "rendre hommage au sport ultime pour le corps, l´esprit et l´âme : le golf". Leur credo : faire de chaque parcours et club house un sanctuaire golfique unique ou le visiteur reviendra encore, encore et encore. Car si le golf 4 étoiles est souvent irréprochable, ils considèrent que finalement, c´est un peu toujours la même chose et que les golfs semblent sortis d´une chaîne de production taylorienne. Le soin du détail, l´attention portée aux matières se doivent selon Mind:Style de faire la différence dans leurs créations qui rassemblent parcours, club house, practise range, spa et hotels.
Pour cela l´équipe est composée d´architectes de golf bien sur, mais aussi de designers décorateurs, d´ingénieurs lumière, de paysagistes mais aussi d´artisans sculpteurs ou spécialistes du travail de la pierre ou du verre. Au fait, si vous êtes un de ceux là, ils recrutent (team@mindstyle.net). A noter pour finir, la ville d´Anvers étudie actuellement les plans du projet de practise de Mind:Style Si le projet est voté, cela vaudra d’y faire un tour en Eurostar. (Mind:Style, Antwerp, 32.03.286.70.90)
Source: Fairways - 2006
You gotta love the Belgians
Home on the range
At West Hove Golf Club they have a practice range that is, essentially, a field with some mats at one end. For three quid golfers get a bucket of old balls, a telling off if you wear jeans and a soaking if the weather turns nasty as somebody decided that you don’t need a roof in the sub-tropical climate of East Sussex.
Thankfully, standing in showers, slapping crappy range balls into the murky distance needn’t be the only way to fine tune your game and after the opening of the Golf In An Hour venue at London’s Northwick Park, comes plans for a revolutionary new practice facility in Belgium.
At the recent KPMG Golf Business Forum at Aphrodite Hills in Cyprus, Belgian creative collective Mind:Style unveiled their radical design for a new inner city driving range near their base in Antwerp and as Stan Colders, Mind:Style’s founder explains, it’s about as far removed from the archetypal driving range as one can imagine. “So many of today’s clubhouses, driving ranges and resorts look the same,” he says, “as if they have come off a production line.”
The Antwerp City Driving Range – the plans are currently with the city council - is perfectly in keeping with the company’s aim of creating ‘golf sanctuaries’ and while there are three tiers of bays on the range itself, there’s also cinema rooms, conference facilities, cocktail bars and restaurants. Perhaps the most inventive part of the complex, though, is the grass roof which doubles as an enormous practice putting greens.
West Hove Golf Club, it’s over to you…
For more details on Mind:Style’s designs visit http://www.mindstyle.net/
At West Hove Golf Club they have a practice range that is, essentially, a field with some mats at one end. For three quid golfers get a bucket of old balls, a telling off if you wear jeans and a soaking if the weather turns nasty as somebody decided that you don’t need a roof in the sub-tropical climate of East Sussex.
Thankfully, standing in showers, slapping crappy range balls into the murky distance needn’t be the only way to fine tune your game and after the opening of the Golf In An Hour venue at London’s Northwick Park, comes plans for a revolutionary new practice facility in Belgium.
At the recent KPMG Golf Business Forum at Aphrodite Hills in Cyprus, Belgian creative collective Mind:Style unveiled their radical design for a new inner city driving range near their base in Antwerp and as Stan Colders, Mind:Style’s founder explains, it’s about as far removed from the archetypal driving range as one can imagine. “So many of today’s clubhouses, driving ranges and resorts look the same,” he says, “as if they have come off a production line.”
The Antwerp City Driving Range – the plans are currently with the city council - is perfectly in keeping with the company’s aim of creating ‘golf sanctuaries’ and while there are three tiers of bays on the range itself, there’s also cinema rooms, conference facilities, cocktail bars and restaurants. Perhaps the most inventive part of the complex, though, is the grass roof which doubles as an enormous practice putting greens.
West Hove Golf Club, it’s over to you…
For more details on Mind:Style’s designs visit http://www.mindstyle.net/
Source: Golfpunk - 2006
Inspiring ideas from a creative network
Mind:Style, the concept architecture group behind proposals for a unique grass roofed driving range in Antwerp, Belgium, launched its groundbreaking ideas for new, iconic golf resorts, clubhouses and urban golf centres at the KPMG Golf Business Forum, 8-10 June.
Among the standout designs on show at the international conference were ultra modern, curved glass and stone clubhouses, plus spectacular city centre golf ranges combining leisure and business facilities.
Mind:Style founder, designer Stan Colders, said, “Mind:Style engineers sublime spaces for passionate golfers. Every detail of a Mind:Style design integrates the golfer’s personal experience and creates a seamless transition between the inner and outer experience of golf.
“So many of today’s clubhouses, driving ranges and resorts look the same, as if they have come off a production line. However, more astute developers are beginning to realise that a successful golf business requires inspiring spaces and buildings to enhance the visitor’s experience, effectively creating golf sanctuaries.”
Proposals for the Antwerp City Driving Range, which Mind:Style has designed, are being considered by the city council. The multi-level range, with integrated business and leisure facilities, features a unique grass roof allowing the building to blend in with its city park surroundings.
Other Mind:Style range designs include urban golf centres with putting greens on the roof, amphitheatre style viewing areas with giant TV screens for sporting events, plus underground meeting rooms with transparent roofs over which golfers hit shots on to the range.
“We received an extremely positive reaction to our resort, clubhouse and range designs at the KPMG Golf Business Forum,” added Stan Colders. “It is encouraging to know that there are enlightened developers out there who now want to take golf forward with new ideas and appeal to a broader audience. We look forward to creating inspiring golf facilities across Europe and beyond.”
Golf development professionals from more than 30 countries attended the KPMG Golf Business Forum at Cyprus’ Aphrodite Hills resort, which Mind:Style co-sponsored.
Mind:Style is a growing network of creative people dedicated to building ‘golf sanctuaries that are as challenging as they are sublime’. For each individual project, Mind:Style assembles a team of talented architects, designers and artisans. For more information about Mind:Style visit http://www.mindstyle.net/
Source: Golf Business News - 21/06/06 - http://mindstyle.net/media/press/Golf_business_news/GBN-news.htm
Among the standout designs on show at the international conference were ultra modern, curved glass and stone clubhouses, plus spectacular city centre golf ranges combining leisure and business facilities.
Mind:Style founder, designer Stan Colders, said, “Mind:Style engineers sublime spaces for passionate golfers. Every detail of a Mind:Style design integrates the golfer’s personal experience and creates a seamless transition between the inner and outer experience of golf.
“So many of today’s clubhouses, driving ranges and resorts look the same, as if they have come off a production line. However, more astute developers are beginning to realise that a successful golf business requires inspiring spaces and buildings to enhance the visitor’s experience, effectively creating golf sanctuaries.”
Proposals for the Antwerp City Driving Range, which Mind:Style has designed, are being considered by the city council. The multi-level range, with integrated business and leisure facilities, features a unique grass roof allowing the building to blend in with its city park surroundings.
Other Mind:Style range designs include urban golf centres with putting greens on the roof, amphitheatre style viewing areas with giant TV screens for sporting events, plus underground meeting rooms with transparent roofs over which golfers hit shots on to the range.
“We received an extremely positive reaction to our resort, clubhouse and range designs at the KPMG Golf Business Forum,” added Stan Colders. “It is encouraging to know that there are enlightened developers out there who now want to take golf forward with new ideas and appeal to a broader audience. We look forward to creating inspiring golf facilities across Europe and beyond.”
Golf development professionals from more than 30 countries attended the KPMG Golf Business Forum at Cyprus’ Aphrodite Hills resort, which Mind:Style co-sponsored.
Mind:Style is a growing network of creative people dedicated to building ‘golf sanctuaries that are as challenging as they are sublime’. For each individual project, Mind:Style assembles a team of talented architects, designers and artisans. For more information about Mind:Style visit http://www.mindstyle.net/
Source: Golf Business News - 21/06/06 - http://mindstyle.net/media/press/Golf_business_news/GBN-news.htm
Practice Design
Dans certains clubs, le practice est une vague étendue verte avec quelques drapeaux où deux trois excités en jeans tapent de vieilles balles. 
Au récent forum KPMG sur le golf qui s’est tenu au golf d’Aphrodite Hills à Chypre (voir fairways numéro 6), le practice du futur a été présenté par Stan Colders, fondateur de Mind :Style, et nous a rendus fous ! Mind :Style est un collectif d’architectes et de designers belges basé à Anvers, passionnés de golf qui veulent s’inscrire dans les tendances du futur. Ils se définissent eux-mêmes comme les meilleurs, les plus créatifs, les plus innovateurs, pour littéralement "rendre hommage au sport ultime pour le corps, l’esprit et l’âme : le golf". Suite dans fairways n°11
Bron: Fairways Online - 2006 - http://www.fairways-mag.com/practice-design-article92.html
Au récent forum KPMG sur le golf qui s’est tenu au golf d’Aphrodite Hills à Chypre (voir fairways numéro 6), le practice du futur a été présenté par Stan Colders, fondateur de Mind :Style, et nous a rendus fous ! Mind :Style est un collectif d’architectes et de designers belges basé à Anvers, passionnés de golf qui veulent s’inscrire dans les tendances du futur. Ils se définissent eux-mêmes comme les meilleurs, les plus créatifs, les plus innovateurs, pour littéralement "rendre hommage au sport ultime pour le corps, l’esprit et l’âme : le golf". Suite dans fairways n°11
Bron: Fairways Online - 2006 - http://www.fairways-mag.com/practice-design-article92.html
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