Wiroa Station Wine Cellar by MAP Architects
MAP Architects designed a wine cellar in the Bay of Islands of New Zealand.
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The building is a simple viewing platform, and wine tasting room for the use of residents of a small beach side development in the far north of New Zealand.
Restricted to 25m2 due to local planning regulations, and set in to the hill side to reduce the presence on the skyline, this simple building forms a calm backdrop to the scenery, intended to enhance the enjoyment of the environment, and wine tasting.
Utilising the local vernacular of wartime coastal bunkers, the concrete wine cellar opens into a broad wedge to allow a stunning elevated vista of the Bay of Islands.
Visit the MAP Architects website – here.
Photography by Brian Cully
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Steve on 15 Apr 2012 at 7:07 pm #
Stunning
Jazzy Jeff on 15 Apr 2012 at 7:09 pm #
Absolute perfection.
Maarit on 15 Apr 2012 at 10:43 pm #
“God is in the detail”. Just had to use this idiom to describe this project. It is simply perfect!
Andy Richards D4 on 16 Apr 2012 at 6:22 am #
What a beautiful contemporary cave. This really is a wonderful and simple concept evolving the original seaside chalet into the seemingly inconceivable!
Eva on 19 Apr 2012 at 6:33 am #
Amazing, espetacular!