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Porto Architects concept wine store is "blindingly white, minimal and circular"
by Stu Robarts | 06 Jan 2020
Porto Architects have created a concept store for a vineyard in Porto, Portugal, that they describe as "blindingly white, minimal and circular." The 90sq m (970sq ft) retail space has been designed to celebrate the wine bottle, with a simple open-plan form that provides a 360-degree view for visitors and a neutral background colour to showcase products. Shelves around the walls of the store have been sculpted to reference vineyard
Woods Bagot to create international food and wine destination in Adelaide
by Stu Robarts | 12 Dec 2019
Woods Bagot have been chosen to redevelop Adelaide's Central Market Arcade, with a design that will see it integrated with the city's adjacent Central Market itself to create a world-class food and wine destination. The AU$400m (US$276m, €248m, £210m) project will establish the newly combined 11,000sq m (118,400sq ft) social and commercial precinct with supporting public spaces as the cornerstone of the broader market district. The amount of retail space
Chybik + Kristof create wine bar in restored and reimagined 19th-century brewery buildings
by Stu Robarts | 02 Dec 2019
Chybik + Kristof have created a wine bar and tasting room in a converted 19th-century brewery and its adjacent 1970s technical space by employing two distinct approaches to renovation. House of Wine is located in Znojmo, Czech Republic, and comprises the two spaces with very different heritages. The original brewery building has been treated as a heritage site, with its fabric restored and preserved, but little in the way of
Radisson Collection launches inaugural hotel in Georgia’s 8000-year-old wine district
by Andrew Manns | 28 Jan 2019
The Radisson Collection Hotel, Tsinandali Estate has opened its doors in Kakheti, Georgia – a region that pioneered the cultivation of wine-producing grapes over 8000 years ago. Set on an 18-hectare, hilly expanse near the Palace Museum of Prince Alexander Chavchavadze – the aristocratic father of the Georgian Romanticism literary moment – the 141-room resort comprises a number of cavernous and brightly painted spaces reminiscent of Romanesque interiors, as well
Montage to open wellness resort in California’s ‘wine country’
by Tom Walker | 29 Jan 2018
Montage Hotels & Resorts has announced plans to open and operate a spa resort in Sonoma County, at the heart of California's wine country. Montage Healdsburg – a property owned by Ohana Real Estate Investors and developed by The Robert Green Company – will feature 130 guestrooms and will have a focus on wellness and food. Exact resort details are yet to be confirmed, but facilities include a large Spa
GOCO creating wellness community in Thailand’s wine country
by Jane Kitchen | 18 May 2017
International spa and wellness consultancy and management company GOCO Hospitality is creating a mixed-use wellness community in Khao Yai’s wine country, two hours north of Bangkok. The community will include a 36-suite wellness retreat along with 48 wellness condominiums and 159 condominiums and large-scale residences, as well as a retail village and community park. Bangkok-based Tierra Design is also working on the project. Set to open later this year, the
SB Architects bring new life to century-old California winery and visitor experience
by Kim Megson | 17 Oct 2016
Following an extensive renovation, the acclaimed Freemark Abbey winery in California’s Napa Valley has reopened to reveal a total transformation of its century-old stone building, which now houses a high-end restaurant and visitor centre. San Francisco firms SB Architects and BraytonHughes Design Studio led the design of the project, which pays homage to Freemark Abbey’s past while introducing several complementary contemporary features. The original stonework dating from 1886 is highlighted
Week's top news: Venice Architecture Biennale, Norman Foster's droneport, and Bordeaux's museum of wine
by Kim Megson | 03 Jun 2016
Much of CLAD’s coverage this week was unsurprisingly centred around the 15th Venice Architecture Biennale. The event is the biggest in the industry’s calendar, and CLAD was there to take a look at this year’s pavilions – exploring different challenges and solutions facing built environments around the world – and to meet some of the most influential architects working in leisure. Among the exhibits that caught our eye were Spain’s
Immersive international wine attraction opens in Bordeaux
by Kim Megson | 01 Jun 2016
The president of France Francois Hollande was on hand yesterday (31 May) for the pre-opening of La Cité du Vin; a new international cultural wine centre for Bordeaux, France. Designed by Paris studio XTU Architects, the complex is a permanent 13,000sq m (140,000sq ft), €136m (US$151.3m, £104m) visitor experience celebrating the history of winemaking. It opens to the public today (1 June). The building’s curving form was designed by architects
Geothermal pools will overlook Palisades mountains at planned Napa Valley Four Seasons
by Jane Kitchen | 11 Feb 2016
Four Seasons is planning a new luxury resort in Napa Valley, California, that will include a spa using the natural geothermal waters unique to the Calistoga region. Owned by Boston-based real estate private equity firm Alcion Ventures and developed in partnership with Colorado-based boutique firm Bald Mountain Development, the Napa Valley resort will include 85 guest rooms and 20 private residence villas. Designed by O’Bryan Partnership Architects, with interior design
Luxurious French chateau to reopen as boutique hotel on Languedoc wine estate
by Jane Kitchen | 15 Dec 2015
Château St Pierre de Serjac – a wine estate in France’s Languedoc region – will reopen in February 2016 as an intimate hotel following a two-year, €25m (US$27.5m, £18m) renovation. The project is a collaboration between winemaker Laurent Bonfils and hoteliers Karl and Anita O’Hanlon, who also own the luxury property Chateau Les Carrasses in the area. Restored in 1886 by Baron Cyprien deCrozals and designed by pre-eminent architect Louis-Michel
Stylish cellar by Short & Associates and MJP Architects adds new dimension for Queen's wine supplier
by Kate Corney | 15 Jul 2015
British architects Short & Associates and MJP Architects have created a new underground events space for the wine suppliers to the British royal family. London’s MJP Architects and Lincolnshire-based Short & Associates designed and created a new cellar underneath Berry Bros. & Rudd’s historic shop, from which they have been supplying wine to the royal family since the reign of King George III in the early 19th century. The Sussex
Wine-themed Six Senses spa resort by Clodagh Design to debut in Portuguese vineyard
by Jane Kitchen | 09 Jul 2015
Six Senses will open its first resort in Europe next week, located in the Portuguese UNESCO World Heritage area of the Douro Valley. Set on 22 acres and designed by New York-based Clodagh Design, the 57-bedroom, 19th century Six Senses Douro Valley is surrounded by sloping vineyards and pays homage to its surroundings through several nods to the grape, including wine-themed spa treatments. Designed with an interior palette of light
Lutz and Ludescher marry modern and traditional design for family winery
by Kate Corney | 29 Jun 2015
Austrian architects Elmar Ludescher and Philip Lutz have created a modern winery to embody the ‘fine art of wine production in the abstract’. The new winery at the 50-year-old Högl family vineyard in Lower Austria will house some of the winemaking processes and give visitors a space to sample the wines. The seven hectare vineyard, which produces dry and sweet white wines, sits on the border of the Wachau UNESCO
Starwood's Las Alcobas hotel to open in Q4 2015 in California's Wine Country
by Helen Andrews | 16 Sep 2014
Las Alcobas, a Luxury Collection Hotel by Starwood in California's Napa Valley, is expected to open in October 2015 once a multimillion renovation is complete. The property is being transformed from the former Grandview Hotel & Spa into a 57-guestroom hotel which is owned and being developed by Spring Mountain Hotel – a joint venture between real estate development company Presidio Companies and Las Alcobas Hotel Group. To be conceived
Loisium to open second spa and wine resort
by Tom Walker | 05 Apr 2012
Austria-based Loisium Wine and Spa Resorts will open its second spa hotel in Ehrenhausen, Southern Styria, Austria in June. The 105-bedroom hotel will include a Wine Spa, two wine-themed restaurants and a wine bar. The 1,400sq m (15,000sq ft) spa will have eight treatment cabins - including two couples' suites - a relaxation area, a sauna area with five saunas, heated outdoor pool with experience showers and a fitness zone
New cultural wine centre for Bordeaux
by Pete Hayman | 05 Dec 2011
Casson Mann has revealed that it is working in partnership with Paris-based architects X-Tu on the development of a new international cultural wine centre for Bordeaux, France. The facility, which forms part of a strategy to promote the city as the world's wine capital, is due to open in 2014 and will explore the stories behind wine and its place within culture. It is hoped the Centre for Wine Culture
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