Matteo Thun Embeds BASIN Glacial Waters into Lake Louise Landscape
Design Milk | 26.02.2026 21:00
Along the shores of Lake Louise––some 5,000 above sea level where the Victoria Glacier feeds directly into a new bathing facility––Matteo Thun has designed BASIN Glacial Waters to function as both architectural frame and sensory mediator, a space where the physiological effects of thermotherapy meet the raw power of protected wilderness. With an opening last September at Fairmont Chateau Lake Louise, this marks the first thermal bathing facility in North America to fully integrate European sweat culture traditions with glacial-fed hydrotherapy at this scale.
