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Foster + Partners plans domed winery that blends with bordeaux's rolling landscape

Following the 2015 completion of a winery for Château Margaux, Foster + Partners has unveiled plans for its second winery in Bordeaux. Nestled in the region’s rolling hills, the new ‘le dôme’ winery in Saint-Émilion aims to blend seamlessly with the surrounding UNESCO world heritage cultural landscape. Visitors approach the winery along a tree-lined avenue, at the end of which is a circular-plan building. According to the architects, the form of the building is rooted in a desire to create a structure that simultaneously looks both inwards and outwards, providing an efficient space for wine production, while engaging in dialogue with the surrounding landscape.
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Renzo Piano’s first ever school building revealed in Shenzhen
A brand new outpost for Whittle School & Studios by Renzo Piano Building Workshop lands in Shenzhen’s Qianhai district, with an emphasis on creativity and emotional wellbeing, and inspiration from traditional Italian urban planning..
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Venice bridge architect, Santiago Calatrava, fined nearly $90.000 because design can't handle tourist crowds..
The architect has been fined nearly $90,000 because a Venetian canal bridge he built cannot support the number of tourists who flood the historic city each year, according to a report.
Santiago Calatrava, 61, was hit with the $86,000 fine after a Roman court ruled earlier this month that he committed "macroscopic negligence" when he built the glass and steel bridge in 2008, the New York Times reported.
According to the court, the construction required constant maintenance due to the volume of tourists traveling with luggage, which officials Calatrava should have considered when designing the bridge.
Calatrava's glass steps were designed to be replaced after 20 years, however, after only four years, eight of them needed to be replaced, the Times reported. This cost the city nearly $40,000.
Complaints about the structure also include the lack of safety when it rains because the glass becomes extremely slippery.
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Gorgeous new Apple store is powered entirely by renewable energy in Paris
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The latest Apple store designed by Foster + Partners has opened in a beautifully renovated 19th-century building on Paris’s Champs-Élysées. Powered with 100 percent renewable energy, Apple Champs-Élysées draws energy from the photovoltaic panels integrated into its kaleidoscopic roof light and collects rainwater for reuse in the bathrooms and irrigation systems. Described by Apple as the tech company’s “grandest Forum,” the retail location blends historic architecture with contemporary design in a light-filled setting filled with greenery..

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