The winery production uses gravity to move the wine through each stage of the winemaking process. On the third floor the grapes are received from an elevator, crushed, and then pumped into the fermentation tanks. When the wine is ready it is filtered or bottled on the production floor and then stored in the cellar below to be aged. VineYARD is a factory that has the stature of a temple.

featured in Projects Review exhibition by Waterloo Architecture at Design at Riverside, 2010

Located on the shore of Lake Ontario, the design for the Legends Estates Winery is a celebration of wine. The suspension of the enormous fermentation tanks creates an open plateau where the line of the Niagara Escarpment can be seen to the south and the lake to the north. The floor below the tanks opens up for visitors who can stand in the midst of wine production and witness every step of the winemaking process.