Fogo Island, Peter Zumthor, Koganeyu Bathhouse, Art Biotop Water Garden, Blue Lagoon Retreat Iceland

Named Fogo Island Inn, the building is the latest edition to an ongoing arts residency programme being established on the Newfoundland isle. So far Saunders Architecture has completed four of six live-in artists’ studios and, most recently, this 29-room hotel and cultural attraction.

The botanical garden Water Garden, an elaborate creation combining speculative and modern garden elements, and designed to thrive within nature, was designed by Junya Ishigami.

Resonant with an elemental materiality and full of myriad therapeutic delights, Peter Zumthor’s thermal baths at Vals are conceived as a cavernous, labyrinthine haven devoted to sensual pleasure.

Tokyo-based studio Schemata Architects gives new life to a sentō, maintaining its original function of socialization and inserting new areas such as a sauna and a beer bar.

Reykjavik-based architects Basalt Architects has designed a hotel and spa complex at Blue Lagoon, in Grindavík of Iceland.