The new and improved medical spa and hotel, Lanserhof Lans in the Austrian province of Lans is now open.

Having undergone considerable renovations and an extension to its existing building, the reinvented spa has been created by Christoph Ingenhoven, the architect behind Lanserhof Tegernsee.

As well as the building design, Dusseldorf-based Ingenhoven Architects were also responsible for the overall interior design.

The redesign, which comes just two years after the opening of Lanserhof Tegernsee, includes a new and modern five-story building spanning 5,500sq m (592sq ft) with two floors of accommodation including 16 rooms and two suites, a new space and a floor for talks, lectures and events.

With the aim to create a sustainable and healthy building in which the guest can recuperate in harmony with nature, ecological and health tested natural materials have been used, from the insulation to the paint.

The architecture itself integrates sensitively into its surrounds and is timeless and elegant, featuring timber, untreated cedar and muted, earthy bronze and grey tones.

Within the existing building there is a new restaurant, a new bath house and infra-red sauna, and an indoor and outdoor saltwater pool - the pool in the new bathhouse has a salt content of 3.5 per cent, the exact average of the world’s oceans.

Additional facilities include advanced medical facilities for yoga, shiatsu, movement, Lans Derma and other therapies, three-room cryotherapy chamber, extended dermatology treatment spaces, extended library and expansions to two of the existing suites, with one to include its own sauna.

For more than 30 years, Lanserhof Lans has been practicing the LANS Med concept, an award- winning symbiosis of traditional naturopathy and state-of-the-art medicine, based on the renowned Mayr cure. This approach is designed to support the natural healing process, promote physical wellbeing, inner balance and personal regeneration.