This week Angelenos got a look at the latest iteration of Swiss architect Peter Zumthor’s design for LACMA. Meanwhile, in a tiny village in Switzerland called Vals, residents are taking in renderings ...

Can a 1,250-foot-tall skyscraper qualify as “a minimalist object” under any circumstances? It depends on who you ask—particularly if the building in question, the 7132 Tower hotel designed by Los ...

Morphosis' Stone Room 1. Image © Global Image Creation – 7132 Hotel, Vals The first thing you notice when you arrive at the new Allmannajuvet Zinc Mine Museum ...

VALS, SWITZERLAND — Rain pelted the windshield as I drove up the Vals Valley. Waterfalls coursed over cliff faces, and the tops of the Alps were lost in fog. Not the kind of weather that walkers who ...

From Vogue to the LA Times, the representation of Peter Zumthor’s Therme Vals baths in print is an exercise in architectural canonisation Dutch architect Carel Weeber once said that buildings don’t ...

LOS ANGELESLOS ANGELES — Peter Zumthor, a Swiss architect acclaimed for the ambitious craftsmanship he applies to works of modest scale in often remote locations, has won the 2009 Pritzker ...

The Swiss architect Peter Zumthor may have just spilled the beans about a radical overhaul of his scheme for the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA). “Everything has changed,” he said from the ...

As archaeological fragments have shown, hot springs around the alpine town of Vals, Switzerland, have lured visitors since the Bronze Age. Fast forward a few thousand years, and today’s tourists can ...

We should remember why Rem Koolhaas’ competition-winning scheme for LACMA’s campus project was abandoned a few years ago: There was a lack of funding but, above all, there was a lack of support for ...

If further proof were needed that the world is in a chastened mood these days, there’s this: the Pritzker Architecture Prize, one of the most prestigious honors in the field, will go this year to ...

After thirty years of of incredible work that pushes forward the bounds of architecture, Swiss Architect Peter Zumthor was recently awarded the 2009 Pritzker Prize, the world’s highest honor for ...

Below is an excerpt of the cover story of this month’s Surface magazine: an in-depth look at Peter Zumthor’s recently completed Allmannajuvet Zinc Mine Museum, featuring exclusive quotes from the ...