The Paris office led by the French Philippe Barthélémy and the Uruguayan Sylvia Griño won the 2016 competition to extend the Glenmorangie Distillery in Tain, in the Highlands of Scotland. The two new industrial buildings have transformed how the plac
With an area of more than 220 hectares, Mercamadrid is one of the largest wholesale markets of fresh products in Europe. The project for Frutas Eloy is being developed in this food-supply environment, with a two-level building for cold storage where
Located in Lanheses, an industrial area in the Portuguese municipality of Viana do Castelo, BW II is a building for BorgWarner, an American group of manufacturers of electric motors and components for both light and heavy and both hybrid and electric
The new extension is built using earth excavated from the site, compressed and repositioned to create spaces that are large enough to accommodate the winery program, as well as a reservoir, carved into the ground, where rainwater is stored. Archetypa
Sarzeau, in the French department of Brittany, has after a 70-year hiatus seen a relaunch of wine production, an activity that had flourished in the area for centuries until the 1950s. The winegrowers Guillaume Hagner and Marie Devigne planted 25,000
The intervention on this terrain in the province of Jaén resulted from contemplating and reflecting on how olives fall to the ground – some half-buried, others dispersed or leaning on one another. With a built area of 5,966 square meters, the hexagon
In the small Tibetan village of Quzkika, in Markam County, this enological complex with a gross built area of 8,334 square meters is embedded into terraces. At the foot of Dameiyong Snow Mountain, near Lancang River, the winery blends into the natura
Located in Jagged Rock Vineyard in Oliver, British Columbia, the heart of Canada’s winemaking region, the Red Barn Winery stands out amid rows of vines and rock formations because of its distinctive red tone, which serves as a beacon. The object was
Norman Foster was commissioned to renovate and enlarge the Bodegas Faustino winery in Oyón, in the comarca of Rioja Alavesa. Years after his collaboration with Bodega Portia in Gumiel de Izán (Burgos), which opened in 2010, this project for the Martí
Liknon is a new space dedicated to Metaxa, a Greek liquor made since 1888 in the distillery founded by Spyros Metaxas. The center is located in a 100-year-old vineyard on the island of Samos. The Muscat grapevines spread beneath the town of Vourliote
In the industrial and commercial zone of the German city of Altenkirchen, a storage and production space for the furniture manufacturer Schumann Project GmbH was built with a timber structure in six months. It serves as a prelude to the Graf-Zeppelin
The Dutch firm founded by Jago van Bergan and Evert Kolpa was commissioned to design this innovation center for urban production of fruit and vegetables in Beijing. Built for the horticultural company AgriGarden and the Chinese Academy of Agricultura
The operations center of a manufacturer of medical products tries to combine efficient industrial formulas with a corporate image grounded on volumetric and material refinement. Laboratories and loading docks are closed with a mini-wave corrugated sh
Combining spaces for production and promotional activities, the viticulture facilities of a historic estate seek to formally and conceptually blend into a World Heritage Site. Much like the product embodies the vineyards’ mineral and climatic charact
The new logistical center of Mayoral, a children’s clothing brand, rises on its corporate campus, on the site of the old company Interhorce (Industrial Textiles del Guadalhorce) in the city of Málaga, beside the listed building by Ramón Vázquez Molez
The firm of Lille Coldefy has been commissioned to build the Sormonne leather good factory of the luxury brand Hermès in an undulating landscape between the municipalities of Tournes and Cliron, in France’s Ardennes region. The 5,700-square-meter man
The rioja alta has the ideal climatic, geological, and topographic conditions for winemaking. Though its production dates back to ancient times, the arrival of the railroad in the 19th century and the interest of French winemakers in the excellent lo
As a result of the close collaboration between the architects and the owners – the Suqué-Mateu family –, the project to build the new winery, by fields of vineyards and a country estate, started to take shape a decade ago. The relationship with the l
This facility in Louviers, Normandy, accommodates 260 crafters of artisanal bags, small leather goods, and equestrian items like saddles and harnesses for the luxury brand Hermès. The project of the Lebanese-French architect Lina Ghotmeh is based on
Construction work on the extension of the Bodegas La Horra facilities, in the Ribera del Duero comarca of Burgos province, has begun. Integrated between hills crowned by pines, marjorams, lavender, and rockroses, the half-buried new winery boasts a
A scheme drawn up by Norman Foster for the company Familia Martínez Zabala – which runs six wineries: Faustino, Campillo, Portia, Marqués de Vitoria, Valcarlos, Condesa de Leganza – has been unveiled. He previously carried out a design for Bodegas Po
The project recovers the original spaces and materials from the industrial site, using a contemporary language for the new additions and rescuing the historic boiler house, the symbolic landmark of the factory and of great importance for the city...
In 2017, BIG won the competition to remodel the historical San Pellegrino complex in the Italian Alps. The development plan includes a visitor center, work areas, offices, and a bridge over Brembo River. Besides giving new life to the company’s image
For the headquarters of the sports equipment and accessories manufacturer Amaya Sport in Noain (Navarre), the architect Josean Ruiz Esquiroz – who works from offices in Madrid and Gorraiz – reused ten shipping containers as structural pieces while st
In the heart of Navarre’s Baztán Valley, in a genuine locus amoenus of the town of Lecároz, the architectural firm Vaillo+Irigaray has built a throat lozenge factory for a pharmaceutical company. Without renouncing contemporary language, the building
Industrial vestiges, as cultural heritage of the first order, reflect the identity of landscapes and communities, but also present considerable economic potential.
Born in Hartford, Connecticut, in 1963, photographer and director David LaChapelle is known internationally for his talent for combining a unique hyperrealistic aesthetic with a critical social message. He started out collaborating with Interview mag
Photography is an emotions factory. And when it comes to paying tribute to human work, few art mediums are as effective in portraying its greatness, poetry, and dignity. The second edition of the Foto/Industria biennial, promoted by the MAST Foundati
Energy flows everywhere but is invisible, as generally are the buildings where it is produced. One exception is the power plant of Wedel, near the city of Hamburg, which is soon to undergo transformation in accordance with a project drawn up by the L
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
En la comarca catalana del Vallès Occidental y sobre unos terrenos deteriorados por un almacén de desechos que se encontraba al límite de su capacidad, los barceloneses Enric Batlle y Joan Roig han construido un nuevo Centro de Tratamiento de Residuo
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 Alejandro Zaera ha ganado el concurso para la remodelación de la nueva lonja de la localidad guipuzcoana de Pasajes. El concurso requería la integración urbana de la nueva lonja, aprovechando su situación para abrirla al tránsito de los
El emirato de Abu Dhabi está decidido a mantener el liderazgo internacional en la producción de energía; la gran placa fotovoltaica proyectada en la ciudad carbon neutral de Masdar City sustituirá al petróleo y a los combustibles fósiles.
Los almacenes para pescadores construidos por Jesús Irisarri y Guadalupe Piñera en el puerto de Cangas de Morrazo, a la entrada de la ría de Vigo, ganaron el premio FAD 2008 en la categoría Paisaje y Ciudad. Se trata de 36 módulos de dos plantas de a
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
Ferdinand Porsche, brillante ingeniero alemán y uno de los padres de la automoción contemporánea, viajó a Detroit en 1937. Quería conocer de cerca la factoría de Henry Ford en River Rouge, contratar personal y adquirir maquinaria para construir su eq
The automobile and architecture make an odd couple. Though their mutual esteem is evident, the members of this mixed marriage are of such opposite nature that the fruits of their close relationship shall necessarily have a hybrid character. On the on
If the family was changing, so was the workplace. And this electronics factory, designed and built in ten months of 1965 and 1966, gave Team 4 the opportunity to develop a system which was both a model of industrial construction and a paradigm of ind
Once the competition for Potsdamer Platz had been decided and Hilmer & Sattler's solution had been ratified, the investing companies called for tenders for the development of their respective areas based on the solution presented by the winners.
