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Photo Gallery The Architecture of Wine

Big-name architects are often asked what they would most like to build -- aside from skyscrapers, stadiums and museums. A lot of them say churches. But vice is apparently just as popular. Indeed, wineries have lately proven the big architectural trend. A museum in Vienna is currently staging an exhibition of the most spectacular new winery architecture -- from Herzog and de Meuron to Frank Gehry.
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Ever since Switzerland's Basel-based architects Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron completed a spectacular building in 1998 for Dominus Winery in Napa Valley, California, built with glass, crushed stone and wire caging -- wineries have become one of the most-popular domains for star architects. The building drew international attention and the biggest names in the business quickly followed suit. American architect Frank Gehry, Spain's Rafael Moeno and Switzerland's Mario Botta have all jumped into the game with modern wine palaces that include every kind of aesthetic extravagance possible. All seem like efforts to break the traditional mould that has many wineries looking like farm houses. A new exhition at Vienna's Architekturzentrum, "Wine Architecture," showcases the best of the best.

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Photo Gallery: The Architecture of Wine

Foto: Angelo Kaunat / Weinarchitektur