The $100 million Hall Winery project comprises seven new buildings totaling about 165,000 square feet, and juxtaposes a curving 50-foot-tall wood and stucco structure with an existing 19th-century winery building. Residents are afraid car loads of gawkers and an alien building form are savage to the rural Napa landscape.
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Hmmm, another contemporary project under fire in Northern California. What a "progressive" region we live in.
I'm no Gehry fan, but the knee-jerk rejection of anything new around here is getting absurd. What's most frustrating is the idea that a rural architectural context exists in the western US. Besides butler buildings and kentaco huts, what's to disturb, and what's to loose if we disturb it?
In Napa/Sonoma, the only context is natural. Architecturally, take your pick between fake Tuscan and fake Provincial. Honestly, even Napa's built context is mostly strip malls, outlet stores and residential sprawl, save a qaint downtown or two. In a way, the forms that Gehry typically puts out could fit quite nicely in the rolling hills of the valley, just as H&deM's severe rock box compliments it.
Opus One = Republican OwnershipSociety
Gehry's winery = Democrat OwnershipSociety
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