You can feast on the architecture of wine temples in this Argentine province


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Architects Yanzon (left) and Bormida at Alfa Crux, a winery in the Uco Valley, San Carlos Department, in the Argentine province of Mendoza. Photos: AFP

The Argentine province of Mendoza is synonymous with Malbec wine, but what's not so well known is that it has become a reference for wine cellar architecture.

In the arid climate at the foothills of the Andes mountain range, architects Eliana Bormida and Mario Yanzon have worked on more than 40 projects that conducted a "deep" dialogue with the Andean surroundings.

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