Archea Associati. Antinory Winery. Diary of building a new landscape.

Massimiliano Fuksas, in "l'Espresso", no. 8, November 2012, describes the project like this: "Nothing seems to have changed in the old vineyards of the Antinori family in the Chianti district. The site has, apparently, hardly been touched. The location chosen for the new winery is Bargino near San Casciano Val di Pesa. Archea, a Florentine firm (...) has been entrusted with the architectural design. The building has hardly interfered with the topographic development of the landscape. It is a matter of an apparently invisible construction, an underground project. The only elements that reveal its existence are two horizontal openings, laden with tension and expressiveness. They are the entrances necessary for the management of a winery and for the visits of wine lovers; connoisseurs or simply tourists who have lost their way in Tuscany. Or perhaps lovers of contemporary architecture (...) The interior of the Antinori wine cellars reveals, through the perfect curvature of the vaults, the true protagonist of this project: the section which traces the curves with precision, designing the connections between them with equally great expressive tension. (...) The functions are, at the same time, clearly separated - production activities are divided from sales - and interacting. The relaunching of wineries today begins with their buildings and cellars. Over they years we have seen redundant vernacular architecture, but also outstanding projects that suit and enhance their sites. Critics who are all-out opponents of built architecture are not always right. In this case they are simply wrong."