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27 Dec 2017
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d?Arenberg Cube
There are grander and more expensive cellar doors in the world, but for sheer originality and invention South Australia?s newly-opened d?Arenberg Cube is unrivalled.
photo courtesy of Creative Commons story from The Lead South Australia
For leading Australian winemaker Chester Osborn, pictured below, it?s the realisation of a 14-year dream, but for the McLaren Vale wine region 40km south of the South Australian capital of Adelaide, the Cube could bring tens if not hundreds of thousands more wine tourists to visit one of the world?s most unusual and dramatic cellar doors.
photo courtesy of Creative Commons story from The Lead South Australia
The five storey AUD$15 million glass-encased steel and concrete structure was inspired by Rubik?s Cube ? an architectural puzzle four modules wide, four high ? seeming to float above the entrance ground floor, and four deep. The architectural twist at the d?Arenberg Cube is that the two top floors are askew, rotated on their axis, just as if you?d twisted your Rubik?s Cube ? which both architects and builders agree have made it the most difficult project on which they?ve ever worked.
As visitors approach the entrance ther...
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