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San Francisco-based Malcolm Davis Architecture (MDa) has completed a rural timber home addition in Northern California Wine Country. Titled Wine Country Barn, the scheme is described by its designers as “a testament to modern architecture’s ability to blend harmoniously with nature.” Image... View full entry
Rafael Viñoly Architects has designed a new international terminal for the Aeroporto Amerigo Vespucci in Florence, Italy. When completed, the 538,000-square-foot terminal is expected to handle 5.9 million annual international passengers. Image credit: Rafael Viñoly Architects The airport’s... View full entry
Work has been completed on the Vertical Panorama Pavilion in Sonoma, California. Designed by Studio Other Spaces, a Berlin studio founded by artist Olafur Eliasson and architect Sebastian Behmann, the pavilion will be used as a space for wine tasting by The Donum Estate, one of California’s... View full entry
Chybik + Kristof Architects & Urban Designers have completed construction of the Lahofer Winery in the Czech Republic. Nestled in the Morovian countryside, the winery embraces the region's archetypal cellar design through a vaulted design that rests on a grid of arched beams housing three... View full entry
Built atop the rolling hills of eastern Napa Valley in California, the Odette Estate Winery was designed with sustainable farming and wine production in mind. Designer Signum Architecture was awarded as an Industrial Building category winner for the project in the 2017 American Architecture Prize... View full entry
Pritzker Prize winning Norman Foster is the latest starchitect to work on a storied wine estate and his client is honoring him in a very special way. Château Margaux, one of Bordeaux’s oldest and most highly-regarded wineries, broke tradition and released a sleek, new bottle design featuring the British architect’s modern building etched in silver. The redesign for the 2015 Grand Vin is the first in Château Margaux’s 500-year history [...]. — Quartzy
If you happen to be a wine-loving fan of Lord Foster's œuvre and are considering to add a bottle of Château Margaux 2015 to your collection, be prepared to (currently) shell out around $1,400 a pop. Château Margaux's modern 2015 addition by Foster + Partners. Photo: Nigel Young.Photo: Nigel... View full entry
[...] the architecture of wine is faced with a much greater challenge than meeting the very specific technical requirements of winemaking, it has to celebrate the process. Nowadays, wineries like religious buildings, are the must-visit destinations for tourists, where people go in droves on alcoholic pilgrimages. — huffingtonpost.com
Contrary to first architectural impression, not every Napa winery is either a stylized barn too good to be true or an exercise in Mediterranean make-believe.
There's austerity as well as opulence, understatement along with over-the-top. You simply need to know where to look.
— sfgate.com
Councilwoman Diaz said she heard about the Cal Poly student's proposal accidentally during a chance encounter on a plane flight to the Bay Area. — North County Times
I always tell graduating students to take their projects to real life and grass root campaign them. Well, so it happened to one Cal Poly, Pomona architecture student John Barlow, class of 2010 advised by professor Kip Dickson, when his project fell into the hands of... View full entry
