The real-life setting of the Therme Vals in Switzerland forms the backdrop for the new graphic novel. By Graeme McMillan Swiss architect Peter Zumthor’s work on the Therme Vals — a hotel and ...

He is a local, known already for his minimalist designs, but the Therme at Vals pushed him into the international spotlight. He was awarded the Pritzker Prize in 2009. Vals sparked a renaissance ...

Swiss architect Peter Zumthor claims his renowned thermal baths in Vals have been ruined by an "egotistical" developer. The Pritzker Prize-winning architect lived alongside the Therme Vals spa and ...

You can take a train from Zurich to Chur and then change to a local train for Ilanz, where bus service is available up the Vals Valley. Hotel Therme, Vals, Switzerland, 011-41-81-9268961 ...

This hotel spa high in the Alps, 120 miles southeast of Zurich, is renowned for its “stunning, contemporary bathhouse,” said Susan Spano in the Los Angeles Times. Swiss architect Peter Zumthor ...

AT SOME POINT in our journey—most likely after the hourlong taxi trip, eight-hour flight and first of three train rides—the notion flashed through my head: “There are easier ways to get a ...

Photographer Hélène Binet and co-authors Marco Iuliano and Martino Stierli have selected ten photography highlights – from architect Peter Zumthor's Therme Vals hotel to the Pantheon in Rome ...

Perhaps Europe's most beautifully designed spa, the Therme Vals is a stunning landmark built from 60,000 stone slabs of Valser quartzite, with sections of grassed-over roof. A perfect marriage of ...

The ultra-thin, 381-meter-tall tower will be one of three Pritzker laureate-designed projects at the 7132 resort, joining Peter Zumthor’s Therme Vals Spa and Tadao Ando’s Valser Path ...

Zumthor, who completed the quartzite-walled Therme Vals spa in 1996, appears to be taking the “if you don’t have anything nice to say, don’t say anything at all” approach. BD Online quoted ...