Château La Coste, Contemporary art center and winery in Le Puy-Sainte-Réparade, France

Château La Coste is a winery, art centre, restaurant, hotel and museum in Le Puy-Sainte-Réparade, Provence, spread across 200 hectares of rolling hills. The grounds combine grapevines with permanent artworks and architecture pavilions among oak forests and Mediterranean vegetation.

In 2004 Irish property developer Paddy McKillen set out to turn the Château La Coste wine estate into a contemporary art centre, giving invited artists and architects free rein to build where they chose. Jean Nouvel designed the winery buildings and Frank Gehry a music pavilion. The estate opened to the public in 2011 with an art centre, bookshop and restaurant. A pavilion built to Oscar Niemeyer's drawings was added in 2022.

Artists place their works outdoors among grapevines and olive trees, allowing sculptures and buildings to merge with the landscape. Visitors encounter the installations while walking through the vineyards and experience art under the open sky.

The grounds open daily from 10:00 to 18:00, with guided tours in English running at 10:00, 10:30, and 14:30. Plan at least three hours to explore the sprawling paths between installations.

The open pavilion at the vineyard edge has a low wall of pale blue-green concrete panels with wave-like cutouts, four dark posts and a jagged roof frame of thin white beams under flat dark panels and glass sheets. It was designed by Oscar Niemeyer's office from his drawings and completed in 2022, ten years after his death.