Architecture firm Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners has unveiled its design for a distillery drinks brand Horse Soldier Bourbon in Kentucky.
The distillery was designed for Horse Soldier Bourbon, an American bourbon brand founded by retired US Special Forces servicemen. It is named after US soldiers who fought on horseback in Afghanistan in the weeks following the 9/11 terrorist attack.
Horse Soldier Farms will cover a 227-acre site
Called Horse Soldier Farms, the distillery ? which will be located in the city of Somerset, Kentucky ? will be part of a 227-acre site overlooking Lake Cumberland.
Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners will include a tribute to the brand's origins in the project's design in the form of a water garden with a dramatic replica of America's Response Monument, which is located at Ground Zero in New York and unofficially known as the Horse Soldier Statue. An illustration of the monument is part of the bourbon whiskey brand's logo.

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Other architectural references to the brand's story will include 12 fermentation vats arranged around a column that the studio says will be made of metal from the Statue of Liberty, as well as a recessed water feature and stillhouse that pays tribute to the World Trade Center that was destroyed in the 9/11 attack.
Horse Soldier Farms will also house a gallery that will honour the "...