Designed by the architect's architect Peter Zumthor and completed in 1996, these spa baths, around two-and-a-half hours drive from Zurich, have an elegance and sensuality that takes them beyond time and fashion. So exquisite is the sequence of indoor and outdoor spaces that embodies stone, glass and thermal spring water that the building had a protective order put on it in 1998, and a book, containing details of the architect's original sketches and concept was published in 2007 (Peter Zumthor Therme Vals, published by Verlag Scheidegger and Spiess). Zumthor insisted that the Therme be built from 60,000 slabs of locally quarried quartzite and covered its roof in Alpine meadow grass, but it is the architect's singular ability to manifest a "beautiful silence" in his buildings that stands out. Therme Vals makes it easy to find your own.
Luxury Link : http://www.therme-vals.ch/
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