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Bodegas de Protos Winery

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Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners have completed the Bodegas Protos winery in Peñafiel, Spain. The winery looks like some big old train stables, it’s fantastic how they have been able to put the entire winery machine park under those wooden roofs.

The 19,450 square metre winery features facilities to ferment, age and bottle 3 million bottles of wine a year. The Bodegas Protos winery is set to be fully operational in October, ready for the 2008 harvest. The winery will be able to handle over 1 Million kilos of grapes a year, and the new buildings are linked via an underground tunnel (cellar) that holds an temperature of 14 -16 °celcius just for the storage of barrels.

Alexandria Library by Snohetta

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Nice project the did back in the early 21th century. And its still one of my favorite architectural spots in the world. The library is sunken into the ground like a big puck, thats halfway gone. The Alexandria Library is one of the largest in the world with its over 80’000 sqm and the result of an 12 year old international super effort.

Even though the building is so big, it feels humane and intimate the scenery also works like a chameleon and during the year the buildings soul shows it self of. Some plants grow hard during spring and some just die during summer… The water shifts colors and well lets just say the whole thing is alive.

Sea Side Properties in Dubai

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Let’s just face it, Dubai is the place on earth that moves fastest right now. Not just when it comes to economics, but building and people moving in as well. Just a couple of days ago Dubai Prince laid an offer on Chrysler building in New York City ($ 4,6 Billion) and some new sea side villas, like the one on top here are planned in the gulf outside Dubai shores.

House 5 by Claesson Koivisto Rune

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The natural light and open spaces are organized to make the outdoor setting the home’s focal point. The interiors are simple, and the No. 5 motif carries from the outdoors into the home’s design scheme. They did design those incredible coffee tables for Amazon over at the offecct thingy

Working in Stockholm, the team composed of Marten Claesson, Eero Koivisto, and Ola Rune designs everything from homes to interiors to products. For more information, and to see their portfolio, click here