There are cool shapes in the project, but it’s schizophrenic in composition and utterly cold and uninviting inside. What is that, Space Odyssey 2001? If I was drinking wine in there I’d half expect to see my future self hobbling out of the old bodega clutching a cane: “You punk, your drinking killed my liver!” Or maybe this is a clinic for winos escaped from THX 1138? I would prefer to see wood hex frame and hundreds of bottles stacked along the undulating walls, with intimate corners to sip Rioja. This is what a Japanese laboratory that creates synthetic Bordeaux looks like.

That said, I wouldn’t mind having a Zaha action figure and collectible models of her buildings.

“The new pavilion was to be exhibited at the Alimentaria Fair in Barcelona and afterwards relocated to the bodegas at Haro in Rioja. In time the pavilion would be superseded by a new extension of cultural buildings.”

“The pavilion would house the past the old pavilion. Made from timber and designed in a fin de scele style the old pavilion became a jewel within a new container. Like a series of Russian dolls the new pavilion itself was to be eventually housed within the new extension at the bodegas.”

I love de Viña Tondonia Building in the first photo. Such a beautiful Red Door. I feel some kind of connection betwwen zaha´s pavilion and old building. A good project.