Dominus Winery
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 | Dominus Winery |
| Designer | Herzog and de Meuron |
| Location | Yountville, California, USA |
| Date | 1996 to 1998 |
| Building Type | winery, agricultural and offices |
| Climate | mild temperate, wine country |
| Context | rural |
| Architectural Style | Modern |
| Street Address | 2570 Napanook Road, Yountville |
| Notes | |
| At Great Buildings | http://www.GreatBuildings.com/buildings/Dominus_Winery.html |
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| Building Details | |
| Client | Christian Moueix and Cherise Chen-Moueix |
| Cost | $5.4 Million US |
| Area | 4,100 square meters (44,000 square feet) |
| Stories | 2 |
| Height | 9m (30 feet) |
| Length | 134.5m (441.3 feet) |
| Width | 25m (82 feet) |
| Program | Winery |
" The building is divided into three functional units: the tank room with huge chrome tanks for the first stage of fermentation, the Barrique cellar where the wine matures in oak vats for two years, and the storeroom where the wine is bottled, packed in wooden cases, and stored until it is sold. We designed to house these three functional units in a linear building some 100 meters long, 25 meters wide, and nine meters high. The building bridges the main axis, the main path of the winery, and is thus in the midst of the vineyards."
"The building's 'skin' is made of modular gabions of wire mesh 'containing' masses of locally quarried stone of different shapes and sizes - a technology commonly used in river engineering - made rigid by a metal structure, also modular, on the interior."
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- General firm: Wright Contracting Inc.
- Construction management: Bob Finlay
- Electrical system: Hansen & Slaughter
- Air-conditioning, sanitation service : Larkin Associates
- Plumbing service: Amos & Andrews
- Iron treatment: ABCO restoration& Waterproofing
- frames/hardware: Hardware Tech/Young Builders
- Aluminium stairs: California contract company
- Stone material supplier: Syar Industries, Inc., St. Helena, California
- Wire Mesh Ceilings: Duane C. Kitchens & Sons
- Frames and grates: Neenah Foundry Company
- Metal framing, Drywall and plaster: North Bay Drywall
- Gabions: Bossard & Staerkle, Ken white masonry
- Structural steel: North Valley
- Iron works: Sub to NVIW
- Stainless steel guides and track: Ogletree’s welding & metal FAB
- Neon lights: Paramount sign contractors
- Sink faucets: Rubinetterie Stella s.p.a.
- Gabion rock: Syar industries
- Glass and glazing: U.S. glass & aluminium
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- "Dominus in Depth" by Kevin Matthews, ArchitectureWeek No. 339, 2007.0620, pD1.1.
- http://www.floornature.com/articoli/articolo.php/id12/sez3/en
- "Herzog and de Meuron Pritzker Prize", by ArchitectureWeek, ArchitectureWeek No. 44, 2001.0404, pN1.1.
- "Herzog and de Meuron Stirling Prize", by Don Barker, ArchitectureWeek No. 167, 2003.1015, pN1.1.
- Gerhard Mack. Herzog & De Meuron 1978-1988 : The Complete Works. Vol 1. Birkhauser (Architectural), October 1997. ISBN 3764356162.— Available at Amazon.com
