Effe’s New York State of Mind | News | Architonic

Few know how to do this with as much panache and precision as Italian spa specialist QC Terme and its compatriot partners in sauna design, Effe. Styling themselves as ambassadors of wellness in the world, QC Terme, founded by Andrea and Saverio Quadrio Curzio in 1998, have certainly garnered expertise in taking remarkable, historic sites and embedding into them state-of-the-art wellness facilities, so that they become sought-after hubs of restoration. They have done this across Italy in places such as the QC Terme Bagni Vecchi in the country’s north. The latest project, however, has taken the team across the Atlantic for the first time to New York, where for seven years it has been transforming a former Victorian military barracks on Governors Island, sitting between the tip of Manhattan and Brooklyn, into the city’s ultimate urban retreat.