The Ribera del Duero region, one of Spain’s foremost wine producing areas, is home to a new winery for the Faustino Group. The Faustino Winery is Foster + Partners first winery and was an opportunity to look afresh at the building type, using the natural topography of the site to aid the wine-making process and create the optimum working conditions. The trefoil plan reflects the principal process stages, with the operational support and visitors facilities strategically located in the center of the building. The public areas are on a mezzanine level along with a restaurant with views of the surrounding landscape. Two volumes house the ageing processes and are strategically buried into the natural slope of the site taking advantage of the thermal cooling benefits of the earth — via ArchDaily

While working on this project the main question that was raised was how to integrate a contemporary facility into the existing ambient of a small Istrian town, how to incorporate something modern into the existing area, which in itself entails a string of details and functions that considerably vary from the rural image of surrounding households, all the while striving to keep the balance with the community in general — via ArchDaily

Two years after the opening of its manufacture, Hysek introduces an extrapolation of the tourbillon in a masterly realisation where transparency is at the heart of an ultra modern design, whose sole ambition is to reveal the mechanical magic of this outstanding movement. Designed, developed and manufactured internally, this exclusive and intensely square calibre with manual winding beats at the rhythm timed by a flying tourbillon endowed with avant-gardist balance manufactured in titanium — via Watchluxus