Aedas teamed up with China Southwest Architecture and won the competition for the Lijia Smart Park Innovation Centre West Zone Project in Chongqing, China. This project with a planned area of approximately 49,000,000 sq m, is located in the geographical centre of Sichuan-Chongqing Smart Industry Collaboration Zone. Comprised of hotels, office spaces, scientific research centres, commercial spaces, incubators, and a host of... >>>

Situated over the Alto Douro Wine Valley, a World Heritage Site in 2001, the hotel and winery emerge from the ground, extending the peak where they settle and fulfill the adjoining terraces, using a mechanism of mimetism and fusion with nature. The proposal was inspired by the idea of a volumetric incision in the exquisite landscape that could be a subtle icon appearing in the nature in a serene and integrated way, exploring the potential of the sinuosity of the traditional terraces and abstract elements of the viticulture production in the Douro Valley. >>>