La Rioja Region, aka "The Spanish Wine Country":

 Zaha Hadid's addition to Tondonia Winery

 Loved the door going inside.  Angled and the hinge is in the center of the frame.  Beautiful!

Frank Gehry's hotel in La Rioja

Supposed to relate to the colors of the grapes and the colors of the leaves... but not sure that I buy it.  It looked very out of place in its context.  I LOVED the Guggenheim Museum, but this Gehry project was definitely not my favorite.

Calatrava's Winery in La Rioja

One of the most spectacular buildings I have ever seen.  It relates to the mountainous landscape and it uses really complex forms in a very tasteful way.  Unfortunately we did not get to go inside, but the exterior was breathtaking.  It overlooks the vineyards, also shown in some pics below.

Bodegas Baigori: Winery that we had a 4 course lunch and a full fleight of wine at.  I have never been in a winery before, but this was a good place to start.  This winery was built 10 years ago, and it is built into the topography, which is a fairly steep hill.  You enter the winery at the top level, and then you make your way down [the hill] and the winery.  Their philosophy is all about the gravitational forces being used in the wine making process.  The building is modern, made of mainly concrete, steel, and glass.  Once you make your way through the whole wine making facilities, you pass through a HUGE room full of wine barrels.  To get through this room, you cross a bridge into the restaurant which casually looks out to the La Rioja region.  Simply SPECTACULAR.

 This is in the room full of barrels lookin over to the restaurant.

 The view out to the mountains in the distance

 After lunch, jumping for joy

 Lauren and me in front of the winery