Like its founder, the Yealands Estate Winery is confident and straightforward. The simple arched form is translocated from the car yard strips of the US to New Zealand, where it is now the Awatere Valley’s largest building by far. Along the way, the architects have made the building larger, more elegant and much friendlier to the environment. The building and its winemaking systems achieve and maintain a high level of sustainability as measured by internationally accepted auditing procedures.