Thermal Baths Peter Zumthor wins "Nobel prize for art" Swiss architect Peter Zumthor has won this year's prestigious Praemium Imperiale award for architecture. Zumthor, whose works include the Thermal Baths at Vals (1996) and the Bruder Klaus Kapelle (2007), follows in the footsteps of fellow Basel architects Herzog & de Meuron, who won the award in 2007. The Japan Art [...]

... in a collection of high-rise buildings that looks like a community college campus. You can't see the Zumthor bathhouse from the road because it's built into the hillside. And it's not well-marked. But that's my ... down on a field of grass, which is actually the roof of the spa.EXPLORINGThe story of how Zumthor came to create a modern architectural landmark in a lost little Swiss valley traditionally ...

... of 'tropical Frenchness'. Quite a unique mix." Cologne 2: Kolumba [Eikongraphia] "The architectural highlight of Cologne is definitely the Kolumba Museum, designed by the Swiss architect Peter Zumthor." Absolutely stunning - check latest A+U. Conversations II [Biennale of Sydney] "Throughout the 2008 Biennale of Sydney, the public is invited to book a conversation lasting up ...

... one of the winners of the Praemium Imperiale awards by the Japan Art Association in Tokyo. Other winners included the Russian installation artists Ilya and Emilia Kabakov, the Swiss architect Peter Zumthor, the Japanese kabuki actor Tojuro Sakata and the British artist Richard Hamilton.The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has announced that 300 bleacher seats at the Oscars, scheduled ...

Recent Praemium Imperiale winner Peter Zumthor designed the Kunsthaus for Bregenz, Austria. The building seeks to connect the historical city center with larger nearby structures. The exterior "absorbs the changing light of the sky, the haze of the lake, it reflects light and colour and gives an intimation of its inner life" as light permeates the glass, steel, and concrete. It's a decidedly ...

... in the arts, were announced yesterday. Famed kabuki actor Sakata Tōjūrō IV (above centre), conductor Zubin Mehta, artist Richard Hamilton, sculptors Ilya and Emilia Kabakov, and architect Peter Zumthor were awarded with the ¥15 million ($143,000 US) prize that is given out annually by the Japanese Imperial family. While the prize honours excellence in painting, sculpture, music, architecture as ...