Château La Coste is a vineyard where art, architecture and land have come together. Architect Jean Nouvel was commissioned to design a technologically advanced wine making chai. The Art Centre, designed by Tadao Ando. In La Coste winery and vineyard  you can walk  through 180 hectares of wooded hilltops, valleys and vines discover works Louise Bourgeois, Alexander Calder, Andy Goldsworthy, Carsten Holler, Paul Matisse, Jean Prouve, Richard Serra among many others.

Located in Nam June Paik Art Center, in Yong-In, South Korea, the library houses and circulates the Center’s Nam June Paik Archives Collection, Nam June Paik Video Archives, and rare Fluxus Footages Collection, as well as the user generated materials.American architecture studio NHDM designed the translucent block, dubbed the Library Machine, to store the multimedia archive.

Odile Decq designed  L’Opéra Restaurant, located in one of the most famous buildings in opera, the 1,600-seat L’Opéra Garnier, on Place de l’Opéra. The most significant features of the restaurant are the magnificent glass curtain walls that protect the original stone; the curved structures that define the new space and also create the seating areas and even some of the seating; and the simple use of white and red.

Uniting the creative visions of artist Rei Naito and architect Ryue Nishizawa, Teshima Art Museum stands on a hill on the island of Teshima overlooking the Inland Sea. Shaped like a drop of water, the museum lies in a corner of the spacious grounds surrounded by once-fallow rice terraces that have been restored with help from local residents. Structurally, the building consists of a concrete shell, devoid of pillars, coving a space 40 by 60 meters. On the ceiling 4.5 meters above, two oval openings allow the air, sounds, and light of the world outside into this organic space where nature and architecture seem intimately interconnected. Inside one finds an ever-flowing fountains and an ambiance that changes from hour to hour and season to season, revealing countless appearances as time passes.

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Designed by Henning Larsen Architects and Batteríið Harpa Concert Hall and Conference Centre is part of an extensive harbour development project in Reykjavik, the East Harbour Project.  Artist Ólafur Elíasson designed the facade and provided the principle for the overall facade design. Situated slightly apart from Reykjavík’s traditional centre, the building will become a significant icon in the city – a visual attraction due to its stunning design. Harpa´s location will mean that, to a great extent, the changing climatic and light effects will be exposed in the facades of the concert building, often in contrast to the narrow streets in the rest of the city.

Wyckoff Exchange, Brooklyn’s emerging Bushwick neighborhood accommodates a live music and performance venue as well as an organic market and a boutique wine shop. The Wyckoff Exchange is designed by Andre Kikoski Architect, an imaginative, award-winning Manhattan based architecture and design firm. They wanted to create an iconic building to speak to the neighborhood’s emerging future as a center of art and creative energy, so they designed a unique façade that is dramatic, inventive and inspired by the industrial qualities of the neighborhood’s past.  And with cutting-edge technologies and construction techniques, we were able to and transform this 100 foot long, eighteen foot tall and two inch deep façade into a contemporary mural of light and texture

Located in the heart of Manhattan’s Lower East Side, 257 Bowery is Sperone Westwater’s newest gallery location. Prompted by the need for larger and more structurally flexible space, the Foster + Partners design doubles the gallery’s exhibition area and provides a variety of rooms for the gallery’s ambitious and diverse program. The new eight-storey building, designed by Foster + Partners, features a 12 x 20-foot moving room, 13 feet high, which can create either a temporal transition between the gallery’s exhibition floors or an extension to a particular floor’s program.
The design incorporates a double height, 27-foot-tall, exhibition space at street level, with a sky-lit gallery, a mezzanine floor, a sculpture terrace overlooking a park, and private viewing galleries on floors 4 and 5.

MONA is the dream of professional gambler, entrepreneur and philanthropist David Walsh, and is designed by Walsh and architect Nonda Katsalidis to shock and offend, challenge, inform, entertain and provoke. MONA sits on a 3.5 hectare  peninsular curving into the Derwent River in Tasmania.  What was previously a small collection of antiquities has been transformed into a three-level, underground, multimedia museum of installations, paintings, light shows, mummies and African art, all of which will be free to the public. The exterior is concrete and Corten steel panels with roof gardens, a tennis court and walkways. The interior is no neutral “white cube” and is designed to encourage visitors to lose themselves in the slow reveal of the galleries.

1111 Lincoln Road is the mix-use (shopping, dining, residential and parking)  project in Miami’s South Beach consisting of a drive-through bank and office building renovation with a new parking garage designed by  Herzog & de Meuron. With this three-part program for 1111 Lincoln Road, the architects saw possibility in addressing the urbanistic significance of the site, the climate, and the mix of uses. Constructed of concrete and glass each level is filled with natural light.

Frank Gehry”s  latest masterpiece the 76 storey residential tower is located just south of city hall plaza and the brooklyn bridge, consists of a public elementary school, luxury apartments, a space for New York downtown hospital and an underground public car-park.  The building’s structural frame is that of reinforced concrete and is draped with a wrinkled stainless steel facade. The 1.1 million square foot tower, is one of the city’s tallest buildings.

Faustino Winery is located in the Ribera del Duero, one of Spain’s foremost wine-producing regions and designed by Foster and Partners.  The building’s trefoil plan expresses the three main stages of production: fermentation in steel vats; ageing in oak barrels; and maturation in bottles; at its core is an operations hub, from which all stages of the production process can be controlled. Architects used the topography of the site to aid the winemaking process, and to create the optimum working conditions, while reducing the building’s energy demands and its impact on the landscape.

Located in a vast expanse of open parkland near the metropolitan city of Lille is the self-titled Lille  Métropole Museum of Modern Art. Originally opened in 1983, the museum has been the recipient of multiple generous donations over the years, including a vast collection of artworks from Geneviève and Jean Masurel in 1979, including pieces by Picasso, Léger and Miró. Originally designed by Roland Simounet the Lille Métropole Museum of Modern Art has now been extended by Manuelle Gautrand. The emblematic image of the new building is of perforated concrete walls, transplanted to cool northern latitudes, but the relationship between eras, architects, buildings and artworks is more nuanced and complex.

Designed by architects Studio Daniel Libeskind and David Rockwell, Crystals is part of the City Center development. It is the combination of luxurious trends both in clothing and food. 

The exterior architecture, conceived by Studio Daniel Libeskind, is a multi-faceted, brilliant glass canopy depicting the  beauty of a quartz crystal that welcomes an abundance of natural light into the stunning three-level environment. Within, David Rockwell and Rockwell Group have created an abstract  park that celebrates nature and the seasons, featuring “changeable artwork” in the way of hanging gardens and a colorful flower carpet.

Don Rafael fell in love with the area around Haro, the mythical capital of the Rioja Alta region and around 1877 he began the design and construction of the complex that is today known as the López de Heredia bodega (winery), the oldest in Haro. The visitor’s pavilion of the winery, designed by Zaha Hadid is a modular metallic construction situated in front of the old bodega buildings, and in the future will become the visitors’ access to the bodega. It was conceived as a movable  building, and was erected to mark the 125th anniversary of the bodega in the 2002 Alimentaria Fair in Barcelona.  The pavilion also houses a stand used in the Brussels exhibition from the early 20th century.

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The  landmark Hotel Marqués de Riscal,  is  in the “City of Wine”:  winery, hotel and spa in El Ciego,  in the heart of the Rioja wine region. Designed by world famous architect Frank  Gehry, the hotel is his second masterpiece in Spain, after Bilbao’s Guggenheim Museum. For this project Gehry has used materials and forms similar to those used in the Bilbao Guggenheim Museum, but this time the titanium which covers the structure are in the colors of Marqués de Riscal: Pink: for the red wine, Gold: the mesh which covers the bottle, Silver: the capsule of the bottle

Herederos del Marqués de Riscal wanted a modernistic building that aroused emotions. To achieve that they thought of Frank O. Gehry, known for works such as the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao. But they  were not certain that Gehry would accept. However, the proposal was offered accompanied by a wine of his birth year (1929), and he accepted. 

The 43 authentic guest rooms and suites pay tribute to Frank O. Gehry´s  design. For a more spacious retreat, the 29 bedrooms located in the Spa Wing with unique views over the vineyards, the Gehry Wing, and the town of Elciego.
The Marqués de Riscal Restaurant and the 1860 Restaurant offer an elite selection of wines of the world and offer the best traditional Basque-Riojan cuisine combined with modern influences. The Wine Bar Vinoteca and the Rooftop Lounge – Library present a stylish, yet comfortable atmosphere with panoramic views.

The “City of Wine” is a 21st century chateau in which the different experiences that wine can offer may be enjoyed.

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Designed by famous architect Jean Nouvel the new 23-storey residential tower overlooking the Hudson River named Nouvel Chelsea. The light enhancing technique of adding an extra layer of nearly imperceptible transparent gloss under the windows to boost incoming sunlight is very clever.  Almost 1700 individually sized colourless glass panes are set at unique angles and torques to create a glimmering pixilated façade and frame some of the most spectacular views in the city.

The 75 hectares of vineyards owned by Bodegas Ysios are set in the highest area of La Rioja, stretching across the localities of Laguardia and El Villar, in Rioja Alavesa. Standing in the loveliest part of the Rioja Alavesa the surprising silhouette rises of Bodegas Ysios,is dedicated to wine and inaugurated in 2001. For the project development, Ysios turned to a multi-disciplinary team of professionals, headed by the architect Santiago Calatrava. His mission was to construct a unique, avant-garde winery, conceived as a place of worship, a place exclusively dedicated to the creation of wines boasting nothing less than the highest quality, with the decisive guidance of expert oenologists. Its name, Ysios, pays specific homage to Isis and Osiris, two Egyptian gods closely related to the world of wine. 

The Centre Pompidou-Metz shares the vocation of the original Centre Pompidou: to present and help discover all forms of artistic expression, to raise public awareness of the major works of the 20th and 21st century, and to take part in Europe’s cultural landscape. In short: represent a major centre for exhibitions and artistic initiative, and a reflection of contemporary creation. The building, designed by architects Shigeru Ban and Jean de Gastines, includes public areas in addition to the many exhibition areas, a creative studio for projections and performances, an auditorium, a bookshop-boutique, and a restaurant-cafeteria

Vitra Haus designed byJacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron is the new home of Vitra’s Home Collection. The  five-storey structure is built of 12 ‘houses’ – five houses are at the base and seven other houses are stacked upon one another.

MAXXI is the first National Museum of XXI Century Arts  devoted to the contemporary creativity. The Museum designed by Zaha Hadid Architects.The MAXXI design goes beyond the concept of the building-museum. The complexity of the volumes, the curving walls, the variations and intersections of the levels determine a very rich spatial and functional configuration that visitors may pass through via ever different and unexpected routes. Multiple environments coexist in a sequence of galleries illuminated with natural light filtered via a special roof system.