Peter Zumthor

Design / 13 Sep 2016

Game-Changers: we pick our top 20 creative world-rockers

In 20 remarkable years we have come across, written about, examined and exhumed a lot of remarkable people. On the following pages are 20 of them. This, though, is not a simple ranking of power and influence. These are stories...

Design / 13 Sep 2016

Peter Zumthor: from small town spa star to global campus king

Therme Vals was completed in 1996, the same year this magazine was founded. It was clearly a good year. Two decades on, Peter Zumthor’s genre-defining spa in the Swiss canton of Graubünden remains a place of pilgrimage for architecture enthusiasts...

Design / 8 Sep 2016

Wallpaper* turns 20: celebrating two decades of history-making, era-defining design

Welcome to the 20th anniversary issue of Wallpaper* – at 508 pages, our biggest issue ever. What a change there has been over those 20 years. Back in the dark ages of 1996, ‘design’ was still largely considered a last-minute...

Architecture / 3 Jun 2016

Touching the void: Peter Zumthor’s tribute to Norway’s mining past

It takes a strong landscape to accommodate strong architecture. Ever since its inception in 1994, Norway’s National Tourist Route Programme has blended infrastructure, heritage and design innovation with landscape. To date, there are 18 established routes, criss-crossing the coastline and...

Design / 12 Oct 2015

Top 20 (design-minded) architects: the A-listers who have thought small and occasionally wiggly

Architects have long turned their hand to product design – from David Adjaye to David Chipperfield and Zaha Hadid – these A-listers have all occasionally thought small in scale and occasionally wiggly. (Yes, Frank Gehry, we’re looking at you!)...

Architecture / 15 Jul 2013

Werkraum House by Peter Zumthor opens in Bregenzerwald, Austria

The Werkraum House, in the small village of Andelsbuch, is the latest addition to Swiss Pritzker Prize-winning architect Peter Zumthor’s carefully composed portfolio of work; and, with his known love of crafts, it will come as no surprise. Zumthor has...

Architecture / 13 Dec 2012

Inside architect Peter Zumthor’s wooden holiday home in the Swiss Alps

Peter and Annalisa Zumthor have just returned from a seven-hour hike across the mountains and valleys of southern Switzerland and are winding down with the neighbours over a bottle of wine. It’s quite normal for Swiss folk to embark on...

Architecture / 4 Jul 2011

Dark arts: Peter Zumthor and Louise Bourgeois’ brooding Steilneset memorial

Standing on the shores of the strait that separates Vardoya Island from Norway, the Steilneset is a brooding, complex structure. A regimented forest of wooden supports, it stalks across the rough rocky ground on the edge of the small town...

Architecture / 27 Jun 2011

Peter Zumthor drafts up a verdant sanctuary for the 2011 Serpentine Pavilion

This year’s Serpentine Gallery Pavilion is not the visually bold statement of Jean Nouvel’s bright red composition for 2010, or the playful engineering feat that was the Rem Koolhaas and Cecil Balmond version in 2006, featuring a moving helium balloon...

Art / 1 Sep 2009

Peter Zumthor by Helene Binet, Cologne

Hélène Binet, photographer to the starchitects, is showing her latest project at Gabrielle Ammann’s gallery in Cologne – a study of the architecture of Peter Zumthor. Born in Geneva, trained in Rome and living in London, Binet has carved a...