CABO AZUL RESORT, Diamond Resorts, San Jose del Cabo, Mexico
CANCÚN RESORT, Diamond Resorts, Las Vegas, NV
GLEN IVY HOT SPRINGS, GOCO Hospitality, Corona, CA

Voelker Gray Design delivers 60 years of wisdom and experience in spa concepts, spa resort master planning, and a full spectrum of architectural services. From pre-planning consultations to complete design packages, from renovations to new projects, we help bring vision and opportunity to life.

Good design is an essential ingredient for success.

Award-winners Todd Voelker, architect, and John Gray, spa industry visionary, combine their expertise to achieve synergistic spa and resort designs that seamlessly meld exterior and interior spaces to evoke rest and wellbeing. They bring fresh perspectives in their designs of properties where guests feel the best of themselves drawn out — soothed, uplifted, rejuvenated — integrating reverence for the natural world and qualities of local cultures. Todd & John provide a seamless construction document process by bridging the gap between traditional spa designers and the architects who must interpret their designs.

Of course there’s more to the recipe.

At Voelker Gray Design, we listen carefully and intuitively to our clients’ visions and goals. We strive to blend esthetic beauty and operational effectiveness. Add budget-conscious integration with our clients’ business plans. Stir in solutions for compliance and technical issues within the overall vision. Season with well-travelled, international perspectives. And cook until done, usually ahead of schedule. We pride ourselves on getting it right from design to detail.

Voelker Gray Design

About Us

Todd’s and John’s creative collaboration began at a spa industry conference on 9-11-2001 and developed for the next 7 years with John as Glen Ivy Hot Springs’ visionary and Todd as Glen Ivy’s architect. Voelker Gray Design was a natural outgrowth. The sparkling synthesis of their wisdom and experience in architecture and operations positions them to deliver inspired solutions in spa and hospitality design.

 

TODD S VOELKER, ARCHITECT

T.S. Voelker Architecture, Irvine, California stands on the foundation of Todd Voelker’s more than three decades’ experience in hospitality design. His award winning projects have been featured in Hotels Magazine, Hospitality Design, Contract Lighting, and American Spa, and include the Cabo Azul Resort in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, Cancún Caribe Resort in Las Vegas, a variety of medical esthetics offices and fine medical spas, and numerous projects for Glen Ivy. Todd also brings a depth of successful experience in restaurant, retail, and custom residential design. He holds a Master of Architecture degree from Arizona State University where his eco-friendly design philosophy first took root. Todd is also an accomplished percussionist and worked his way through university playing gigs, recording, and teaching drumming. He especially enjoys the collaborative spontaneity and improvisation in jazz, qualities that often inspire his original architectural designs.

JOHN C GRAY, SPA VISIONARY

For over 30 years John was President and Chief Executive Officer of Glen Ivy Hot Springs, Inc. near Corona, California. Glen Ivy first came into commercial use in 1860 and has a rich and storied history, but both business and property had fallen on hard times and nearly closed as John’s tenure began in 1977 when he founded the present-day Glen Ivy Hot Springs corporation, which since 2016 has been owned by GOCO Hospitality International. With John’s vision and leadership, Glen Ivy Hot Springs Spa, “Nature’s Day Spa,” was gradually renewed and revitalized.  Within the Spa industry and beyond, John is respected as a visionary leader in the innovative design of memorable spa experiences, and Glen Ivy is a well-known success story. In 2007 John began shifting his focus from running Glen Ivy to business development and consulting. He now applies his decades of operational experience and design expertise to creating new spa and hospitality experiences for others. He also enjoys being a grandpa, serving on his city’s planning commission, traveling with family, and is a published author.

PROJECTS

Services

VGD provides owners a powerful package of capabilities integrating programming goals, operational efficiency, architectural design, interior design and team coordination of the technological expertise required to deliver outstanding hospitality guest experiences.

 

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PLANNING SERVICES

Resort and Spa Master Planning
Program and Theme Definition
Architectural Design
Site Feasibility Studies
Zoning Research and Entitlement Processing
Spa Services Menu Development
Creative New Treatments Concepts

 

COMPLETE ARCHITECTURAL SERVICES

New and Renovated Facilities
Site Development and Building
Shell Interior Design and Specifications
Water Features
Landscape Design
Lighting Design
Structural Engineering
Mechanical, Electrical and Plumbing Engineering
Kitchen and F&B Service
Delivery of Comprehensive and Well-Coordinated Construction Documents

TYPICAL VGD PROJECTS AND CLIENTS

Hotel Spas, New and Renovated
Ayres Hotels Group
Resort Master Planning/ Spa Concept Development
GOCO Hospitality International
Diamond Resorts/ Pacific Monarch Resorts

Spa Health and Wellness Centers
Union Village
Soderstrom Skincare Institute
Mineral Water Developments
Glen Ivy Hot Springs, Inc
Calistoga Resort and Spa
Athletic / Recreational Centers
Spearman Clubs
Bowlmor / AMF

Historic Renovation and Restoration
Ulysses S. Grant Jr. Lodge
SenSpa Café, San Francisco Presidio

Medical Spas/ Outpatient Surgery/ Medical Office
Skin Dimensions
Mira Aesthetic Med Spa, Inc
Restaurant Food and Beverage Facilities
Tutto Fresco, Inc
Bruxie, LLC

Media

International Spa Association
“Dedicated Contributor Award” John Gray 2012

Spa Magazine Silver Sage Reader’s Choice
Glen Ivy Hot Springs Spa, Favorite Hot Spring Spa
Glen Ivy Hot Springs Spa, Favorite Affordable Spa
Glen Ivy Hot Springs, developer

Condé Nast Traveler Hot List Hotels 
Cabo Azul Resort & Spa Baja California
San José del Cabo, Mexico
Pacific Monarch Resorts, developer

National Geographic Traveler, 
Top 24 Spas in America

Glen Ivy Hot Springs Spa
Glen Ivy Hot Springs developer

IESNA Illumination Design Award 
Outstanding Achievement in Lighting Design – Todd Voelker
Glen Ivy Day Spa, Hermosa Beach

American Spa Professional’s Choice Awards, 
Best Day Spa 

American Spa Magazine
Glen Ivy Day Spa Brea and Glen Ivy Day Spa Valencia
Glen Ivy Hot Springs developer

Also featured in:
Hotels Magazine
Cabo Azul Resort and Spa
Cancun Las Vegas Resort
Pacific Monarch Resorts, developer

Hospitality Design Magazine
Cancun Las Vegas Resort
Cabo Azul Resort and Spa
Pacific Monarch Resorts, developer

LA Times Article
“Meet me at the Mud Club” May 6, 2007

Best of Orange County People’s Choice Awards
Glen Ivy Day Spa, Brea
Best Spa in Orange County
Glen Ivy Hot Springs Spa, developer

AIA Design Excellence Award
Phoenix, AZ
Downtown Master Plan

“The collaboration with VGD is efficient and effective and we can recommend VGD to any developer requiring related architectural consultancy services. We have enjoyed our relationship and are looking forward to expanding on it in the near future.“  

Ingo Schweder - Founder and CEO of GOCO Hospitality International Glen Ivy Hot Springs Spa
“I just came back from the office and basically, I was admiring the almost finished project and your work. You have done an amazing job once again. I am very proud of the office, I feel it has really helped my business do well and I attribute a lot of that to you.”
John DiGiovanni, DDS DiGiovanni Office, Newport Beach
“The Glen Ivy Spa in Hermosa Beach exemplifies cutting edge architecture and innovative design to support the latest treatments. We enjoy being part of the Glen Ivy new standards for California Spas.”
Robert D. Olson, CEO R.D. Olson Construction Glen Ivy Spa, Hermosa Beach
“I still am convinced we designed and built the most beautiful Derm/Spa building in America!!”
Carl W. Soderstrom M.D. Soderstom Skin Institute, Morton Illinois
“This 332-room property just outside San Jose del Cabo somehow remains tasteful despite its large scale… The resort's overall effect is a successful merging of form and function, and for now it remains a well-kept secret.”
Condé Nast Traveler Cabo Azul Resort & Spa, Baja California

Contact

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