The first purpose-built saké brewery in the UK, a single-aisled barn in the grounds of eighteenth-century manor house, Fordham Abbey, a flagship for the Hashimoto family’s mission to cultivate appreciation of the traditional Japanese drink. Inside, asymmetric steel portals provide clear span to profiled steel trays, structural diaphragms giving a smooth cream finish perforated at high level for acoustic absorption. Stack-bonded block walls divide the rooms and separate the washing, soaking, steaming, koji-fermentation, pressing, storage, bottling and classroom environments. Outside, berry-red sinusoidal aluminium wraps the roof slopes and side walls. Red aluminium windows give views of the brewing process and together with GRP roof lights, provide daylight throughout. The west gable steel framing is clad vertically with sawn cedar boards cut around a group of twelve windows that make the kanji for saké. Building the Dojima Sake Brewery and renovating the elegant Georgian house, the Hashimoto family and their design team are breathing new life into a run-down historic building and a disused farm, providing innovative, sustainable and exotic employment and in the Visitors’ Centre, new leisure opportunities to the countryside. The project’s stated aim is to improve cross-cultural education, trade opportunities and détente between Japan and the UK.