Vineyard

In the quiet Spanish countryside, a subtle architectural form is beginning to take shape. When completed, the Bodegas Dominio d’Echauz winery will serve as an archive, a laboratory, and a sanctuary dedicated to protecting endangered grapes.

Rafael Viñoly Architects has revealed plans for a remarkable new airport terminal. Located in Florence, Italy, its design riffs on the local tradition of wine production and will feature a green roof with a working vineyard.

As climate change, market demand and other variables impact vino supply and quality, winemakers have turned to using ultrasound on grapes to get a better drop. Now, for the first time, scientists have studied its effects on the increasingly popular rosé.

Portuguese architectural firm Carlos Castanheira has recently completed this striking eco-tourism destination, with accommodation suites that float above vast grape vines below.

Although we've been hearing about various agricultural robots that are still in development, there's at least one which is already commercially available. It's called the Slopehelper, and it's made mainly for use in vineyards.

Portuguese architectural studios Andreia Garcia Architectural Affairs and Diogo Aguiar Studio have created a clever space-saving guest house. Dubbed Pavilion House, the timber-clad home is built above a pre-existing wine cellar, located amid a stunning vineyard in Guimarães, Portugal.

Wine grape growers need to regularly walk up and down all the rows of vines, continuously stopping to check on the plants themselves and their grapes. It's the sort of thing that it would be nice if a robot could do. A robot like the VineRobot.

L3P Architekten recently managed to successfully shoehorn a rather unusual glass and concrete home home into an awkward little plot in Switzerland. It offers a compelling argument for the use of so-called "undesirable" building plots.

As part of the Grapesort project, Germany’s Fraunhofer Institute for Optronics, System Technologies and Image Exploitation has helped create an automated system that not only gives bum wine grapes the boot, but also divides up the good ones according to quality.

Mauro Turin's bold concept would see a cliff-top wine museum overhang the stepped vineyards on the shores of Lake Geneva.

Located in Mendoza, Argentina amid 6,000 meter Andes, Entre Cielos is home to a tree-hotel prototype.

Italian sculptor Arnaldo Pomodoro has constructed his first-ever architectural sculpture in Umbria.