The phrase "a retreat designed for" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing the purpose or intention behind a retreat, indicating who or what it is meant to serve.
Example: "The organization is hosting a retreat designed for team building and personal growth."
Alternatives: "a retreat intended for" or "a retreat aimed at".
He wants to build a house, much like the minimal Mies van der Rohe country retreat designed for Dr. Edith Farnsworth, outside New York.
On view will be seven drawings, a pair of models and recent photographs of his HOUSE OF SPIRITUAL RETREAT, designed in 1979 for an imaginary site near Cordoba, Spain, and built only last year outside Seville.
The Retreat, designed by the architectural partnership Buckley Gray Yeoman in London, is a mobile home for the design-conscious.
The retreat was originally designed for alumni of the Summer Principals Academy SPAand and their invited colleagues and friends, as a continuing support for their Self-Awareness Training.
A fifth house, the Secular Retreat, a hilltop hideaway designed by Peter Zumthor for contemplation or sustained work, is under construction in another popular haunt of the well-heeled Londoner, the South Hams district of Devon.
Gavin and Rachel Anderson's inspiration for their eco-friendly, turf-topped, stone and glass house, which sleeps four, came while living in east Africa, where the trend for luxury retreats designed to blend into the natural environment is well-established.
'They'd found that more and more people were coming to them for retreats, both religious and secular, and wanted to be able to offer accommodation with complete solitude.' Bates Maher designed for the retreat four cabins in larch and Douglas fir - three cantilever out over the landscape, so occupants literally hover above the earth, while the fourth floats above a river.
Everyone knows the Glass House, the weekend retreat that the architect Philip Johnson designed for himself in New Canaan, Conn.
020 3286 5431; surfberbere.com 8. Foothills trekking Head for the hills on Intrepid Travel's new Atlas Mountain Retreat (launching in February 2009), part of its Independent portfolio, designed for those who don't want to travel with a group.
Songs such as "Border" could have been designed for V Festival-goers to retreat to should Clean Bandit get a bit lively.
