PIPERS BROOK VINEYARD
Location
Pipers Brook, Tasmania
Completed
1991
Pipers Brook, Tasmania
Completed
1991
Awards
1992
RAIA John Lee Archer Triennial Award
1991
RAIA Corporate Design Award
1992
RAIA John Lee Archer Triennial Award
1991
RAIA Corporate Design Award
The winery designed by this practice for Pipers Brook Vineyards is a unique blend of French vinticultural symbols and traditions with Australian ideas. A series of walled courtyards and sheds conceal, and subsequently reveal the winemaking process. The central tower contains four red wine fermenters, while maintaining the traditional scale and feeling of its Bordeaux precedents.
In 1992, the building was awarded the John Lee Archer Triennial Award for the finest public building constructed in Tasmania over a triennium. For what is, after all, only a factory, this is a impressive commentary on the place making that has been achieved.
An extension at the rear enlarged the facility further, with a scissor frame roof structure emulating some of the beautiful medieval barns, and a collection of large underground vaulted cellars below.
In 1992, the building was awarded the John Lee Archer Triennial Award for the finest public building constructed in Tasmania over a triennium. For what is, after all, only a factory, this is a impressive commentary on the place making that has been achieved.
An extension at the rear enlarged the facility further, with a scissor frame roof structure emulating some of the beautiful medieval barns, and a collection of large underground vaulted cellars below.
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