Barozzi Veiga   Italy   The project is the outcome of a private commission of Guerrieri Rizzardi – a family-owned estate producer of wine and olive oil. The client asked for an extension of their current winery, along with a museum, a small auditorium, a point of sale, and

Foster + Partners   France   The design unveiled by the British architect Norman Foster shows a desire for it to respectfully blend in with the gently rolling hills around. The tarracotta-tiled vaulted roof presents a timber structure with a 40-meter...

Harquitectes   Spain   In the historic center of Gratallops, a municipality of Tarragona province, amid narrow streets and houses between party walls, a winery with a built area of 1,289 square meters adapts to its L-shaped plot. With walls as thick as 1.75 meters at most,

Carl Fredrik Svenstedt Architect   France   The main undulating wall, of 7x 80m, is built with blocks of local sandstone carved by a robot, post-tensioned to the foundations and bonded horizontally using stainless steel cables. The blocks are mounted traditionally by a team of stonemasons...

Rafael Moneo Canals Moneo Arquitectos   Spain   With over three centuries of history, Bodegues Ribas is the oldest winery on the island of Mallorca. Since its foundation in 1711, its wines have been produced in Ca’n Ribas – an 18th-century manor house kept intact to date – and the lands around it,

Foster + Partners   France   Known for the eponymous wine it produces, the territory of the Jurisdiction of Saint-Émilion – composed of eight villages and their vineyards – was listed as a World Heritage Site by UNESCO, as a cultural landscape. The design unveiled by the British

Carl Fredrik Svenstedt   France   The Paris firm headed by Carl Fredrik Svenstedt (Stockholm, 1967) designed this winery of petrous facades, made of blocks weighing a ton each, for the Château de Selle estate in Taradeau, in France’s Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur region. Extracted from

José María Sánchez García   Switzerland   The project intervenes in the landscape by restructuring the estate with vineyards and green terraces; restoring Villa Cristina through the recovery of the old vaults after eliminating the false ceilings and creating partitions with furniture; and ex

Rafael Moneo   Spain   The Descendientes J. Palacios Winery was located in the town of Villafranca del Bierzo. Its facilities were spread in different structures and warehouses, so it became necessary to reconfigure and gather them all in one building. The desire to blend

Jorge Vidal Víctor Rahola   Spain   The construction of a winery and the winemaking process are closely attached to an experience with the land. Wine is the aroma, color, taste, body, and essence of the grape. This combination of senses and perceptions needs to be accompanied by a plac

José María Sánchez García   Switzerland   The project intervenes in the landscape by restructuring the estate with vineyards and green terraces; restoring Villa Cristina through the recovery of the old vaults after eliminating the false ceilings and creating partitions with furniture; and ex

Paredes Pedrosa Arquitectos   Spain   The 18th century farmhouse was the only building in a landscape of vineyards and olive groves, and it had to be adapted to accommodate a center devoted to wine culture. The farmhouse is thus extended with a new volume with a four-point star shape. Th

Álvaro Siza   Portugal   Sitting atop of a hill amid vineyards and cork trees, a white prism brings out the wavy landscape of Portugal’s Alentejo region. To preserve existing plantations, upon deciding the exact location of the winery it was deemed advisable to prolong a pat

Álvaro Siza   Portugal   Visiting wineries to become acquainted with the winemaking process and tasting the wines produced on the same grounds is a growing tourist attraction. This building for the production and maturing of wines in the Duero River region makes this experie

Fernando Menis   Russia   Making use of the natural topography of the area around the access road, the winery seeks to imitate the lines of the landscape and subtly blend into the environment. Such a strategy of integration is inspired in the nearby medieval fortress-town of

Norman Foster   France   Located in the French region of Médoc, Château Margaux is a Premier Cru and one of the world’s leading wine producers. Since it was built in the early 19th century, the Bordeaux estate has evolved to meet changing operational requirements, but no lon

Lacaton & Vassal   France   The wine cellar is already a landmark in this small town of 140 inhabitants located in the Corbières massif. Along with the Town Hall and the church, this building now stands as a new monument in the municipality. After twenty years, the improvement

Archea Associati   Italy   To blend the construction into the landscape and preserve the continuity of the vineyards, the entire functional program of this winery in Tuscany’s Chianti area is set underground.

Emilio Tuñón   Spain   The new Benjamin Rothschild & Vega Sicilia winery proposes an architecture of ‘terroir,’ foreign to current trends and styles, where the location, climate, the land and its vegetation define the building’s form and the type of construction. 

Emilio Tuñón   Italy   Evoking the vernacular architecture of Tyrol, the structure above grade consists of two volumes flanking a courtyard which organizes the building with the public space and gives way to the underground world of excavated wineries in the area. 

Norman Foster   France   The project for the expansion of the facilities of Château Margaux, one of the most important producers of wine in the world, included the design of a new building for the handling, mainly, of varieties of white grape. The new construction extends fr

Foster + Partners Norman Foster   Spain   WITHIN THE growth strategies of Spanish companies, and in particular of Spanish wineries, it is becoming more and more important to invest in intangible assets. Over the past years there has been an increase in the number of signature wineries built

Joao Luis Ferreira Joao Perloiro Paulo Martins Barata Paulo Perloiro Pedro Appleton Promontório   Portugal   In 2005, a family-based agriculture company invited Promontório to design an innovative resort concept that would combine the rural experience of wine and olive oil production, with the amenities of a leisure destination. Located in a valley near Mo

Located in a small town in Palencia, the El Castillo Winery is an unfinished project. It is so, at least, because time has been essential in this case, not only because of the way in which the project intervenes in a centennial winery, but also becau

Encaramada a un cerro sobre el río Duero, no lejos de Burgos, Roa alberga desde 1991 la sede del Consejo Regulador de la Denominación de Origen de la Ribera del Duero, que acaba de ampliarse con un edificio diseñado por el estudio barcelonés Barozzi

El universo del vino acoge a una nueva estrella. Concebida para aprovechar las ventajas de la topografía, la bodega que Norman Foster ha diseñado para el Grupo Faustino se estructura en tres alas programáticas semienterradas cuyas cubiertas transitab

El estudio de Rogers Stirk Harbour ha concluido la ampliación de las bodegas Protos en Peñafiel. Realizado junto al equipo Alonso y Balaguer, el volumen de cinco bóvedas parabólicas se proponía satisfacer las demandas del cliente de construir un edif

Luis Fernández-Galiano   The Swiss Jacques Herzog & Pierre de Meuron have built a Californian winery for the prestigious Bordeaux viticulturist Christian Moueix.