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Through the rigour of his craft, Peter Zumthor has realised an extraordinary building full of sensory richness. From the earlier projects in Chur, and from the church of Sogn Benedetg west of Vals (AR January 1991), Zumthor has now developed an architecture of complex spatial interpenetration.


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In it Zumthor reveals that the original idea for Therme Vals was to hollow out the space upon which it stands. "It was a quarry and then it became more of a construction site. The process was not deciding shadow but letting the light in and letting the view come in," he says at one point. Peter Zumthor, Therme Vals, Switzerland (1996.


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The Therme Vals | Peter Zumthor. Built over the only thermal springs in the Graubunden Canton in Switzerland, The Therme Vals is a hotel and spa in one which combines a complete sensory experience designed by Peter Zumthor. Peter Zumthor designed the spa/baths which opened in 1996 to predate the existing hotel complex.


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Would like to know how does Therme Vals sound? In this chapter, we travel to Vals in Switzerland and experience with all our senses out, and inside this time.


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Legendary, prize-winning architect, Peter Zumthor, has been a neighbour in Switzerland's close-knit Vals for nearly 20 years, and his iconic Therme Vals has had visitors flocking since its opening in 1996. But whereas Zumthor's Therme Vals was once owned by the Vals community by way of a social project, it has since been bought by a large.


Thermal Baths in Vals by Peter Zumthor

Through the rigour of his craft, Peter Zumthor has realised an extraordinary building full of sensory richness. From the earlier projects in Chur, and from the church of Sogn Benedetg west of Vals (AR January 1991), Zumthor has now developed an architecture of complex spatial interpenetration.


Peter Zumthor The Local that Went International

Therme Vals, which opened in 1996, is one of Zumthor's best-known buildings. It is one of around just 20 projects completed by the architect since he set up Atelier Peter Zumthor in 1979.


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Peter Zumthor, Swiss architect known for his pure, austere structures, which have been described as timeless and poetic. These qualities were noted when he was awarded the 2009 Pritzker Architecture Prize. He is perhaps best known for Therme Vals, Switzerland, and the Brother Klaus Field Chapel, Wachendorf, Germany.


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Built over the only thermal springs in the Graubunden Canton in Switzerland, The Therme Vals is a hotel and spa in one which combines a complete sensory experience designed by Peter Zumthor. Save.


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In this stunning photo shoot Fernando Guerra, of Últimas Reportagens, captures the Therme Vals, one of the most iconic works of the 2009 Pritzker Prize -winner Peter Zumthor. Save this picture.


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Peter Zumthor created a magnificent, internationally acclaimed masterpiece when he designed our thermal baths. Made from 60,000 slabs of Vals quartzite, the "Therme" was granted protected heritage status shortly after completion. The unique atmosphere and the highly mineralized water that comes out of the St. Peter spring at a pleasant 30.


Thermal Baths in Vals by Peter Zumthor

Introduction Peter Zumthor built the spa and baths between 1993-1996, incorporating the existing hotel since 1970. The green slope which rises in the hotel serves like roof to new bathrooms, a prairie grass that has a swimming pool for guests. This provision creates an atmosphere of natural park with artificial plantations but arranged in rectangular […]


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Peter Zumthor. 1 of 25. Helene Binet. Vals is a remote alpine village in the canton of Graubunden, which has recently become well known all over Switzerland and to some extent the rest of the world - it went through the Bilbao effect before Bilbao. During the early 1980s the community of Vals bought a bankrupt hotel consisting of three.


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On 14th January 2010, the Velux Stiftung presented the second Daylight-Award at the S AM Swiss Architecture Museum in Basel. Winner of the Daylight-Award 201.


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Peter Zumthor Therme Vals Therme Vals, Switzerland Therme Vals (Peter Zumthor) Therme Vals is the only book-length study of this singular building. It features the architect's original sketches and plans for its design as well as Hélène Binet's striking photographs of the structure. Architectural scholar Sigrid Hauser contributes essays on.


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These images by Portuguese photographer Fernando Guerra offer a tour of Peter Zumthor 's thermal baths at Vals, which celebrate their 20th anniversary this year (+ slideshow). Completed in 1996.