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Building: Casona Sforza
Location: Puerto Escondido, Oaxaca, Mexico
Client: Ezequiel Ayarza Sforza
Architecture Firm: Taller de Arquitectura X
Principle Architect: Alberto Kalach
Contractor: Efrain Salinas
Site: 4500 m^2 or 49000 sf
Completion: 2021

AE Interests: Sustainability, Locally sourced materials, Millinery architecture, Seismic design, Air circulation through arches, Wastewater treatment plant, Harmonious integration

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Building: Bodegas Protos
Location: Peñafiel, Valladolid, Spain
Address: Cam. Bodegas Protos, 24-28, 47300 Peñafiel, Valladolid, Spain
Cost: £15,000,000 (around 17,195,910 USD)
Started: Design began in 2004, but construction did not begin til Spring 2005
Completion: September 2008
Size: 19,450 m²

Client: Bodegas Protos
Architect: RSHP and Alonso Balaguer and Arquitectos Asociados
Structural Engineer: Arup
Services Engineer: BDSP, Grupo JG, and Agroindus
Project Manager: CEM Management
Quantity Surveyor: Tecnics G3 and Agroindus
Lighting Consultant: Biosca y Botey

Awards: RIBA European Award, Shortlisted for RIBA Stirling Prize, Chicago Atheneum Award, World Architecture Festival – Production, Energy, and Recycling, Civic Trust Award, Conde Nast Traveller ID & D, Gourmet Category – IStructE Award.

AE Interests: Use of local materials, timber parabolic arches, simple and modular form, function, natural lighting, thermal groundmass, nighttime cooling, recycling of stone for walls.

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*Original post by Ashley Pietzsch on September 1, 2009