The 9 Most Beautiful Architectural Treasures

The “rock church“ was designed in 1995 by Werner Schmidt. For the construction, 108 different wooden elements were placed on a foundation, covered with a metal grid and then coated with shotcrete.

The Segantini Museum in St. Moritz opened in 1908. Its architecture is based on the pavilion that Segantini had designed for his Engadine Panorama at the 1900 Paris World Exhibition.

One of the most iconic works of the 2009 Pritzker Prize winner Peter Zumthor, Therme 7132 in Vals was built between from locally quarried Quarzite over the only thermal springs in Graubünden.

Founded by Grażyna Kulczyk and opened in 2019, Muzeum Susch is located on the site of a medieval monastery. The existing buildings were restored and underground passageways added as connections.

The shelter over the Roman archaeological site in Chur was designed by Peter Zumthor. It is built almost exclusively from timber lamella that allow both light and ventilation into the museum space.

The Bündner Kunstmuseum in Chur was founded around 1900. Part of the museum is located in the historic Villa Planta built in 1874 and 1875 to plans by Johannes Ludwig for Jacques Ambrosius von Planta.

The shape of Peter Zumthor’s chapel in Sumvitg can be seen in different ways: as half an infinity symbol, a leaf or a water drop. The wooden pillars appear to support the roof like a large canopy.

This old farmhouse in Flims was painted yellow until its renovation in 1997 by Valerio Olgiati: all interior walls and the external plaster work were removed. It was then painted white inside out.