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   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

El País   Luis Fernández-Galiano   The mythic Pétrus de Pomerol is one of the great wines of Bordeaux. A decade ago, its producers – the Moueix family – launched the adventure of setting up a sister plant in Northern California. Under the name Dominus, Christian Moueix and his wife Ch

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