ReD wishes all Friends, Collaborators, Students, Clients, Partners, Supporters and Blog Visitors, all the best for the New Year!!!

Christmas Celebration Between ReD and GuedesDeAzevedo Offices

Both settled in Porto's historic downtown, ReD and the Guedes de Azevedo street architecture office joined efforts to celebrate together the Christmas 2007. This event included a intense Mini-Golf competition at the Passeio Alegre fields, followed by a dinner at Cufra restaurant, where the competition prizes and christmas presentes were deliver. ReD has also the opportunity to dress its new merchandising product, the Chinese ReD's T-Shirt! More information about this celebration will soon be added to this post.
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01 Participants in the celebration event from ReD and Guedes de Azevedo architecture office.
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02 Mystic moment during the Mini-Golf Competition
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03 Final dinner at Cufra restaurant.
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ReD will Lecture in Aveiro @ NAAV (Portugal)

Having travelled throughout the country, the "OutrosMercadus '06 Award" exhibition, will now move to Aveiro in January. Promoted by the OutrosMercadus company, the Núcleo de Arquitectos de Aveiro da Ordem dos Arquitectos / NAAV will host this exhibition and a lecture series around the theme of Ephemeral Architecture theme. ReD, the winner of the OutrosMercadus Award, is the studio invited for the opening cerimony. The other lectures will count with the participation of Joao Mendes Ribeiro, Carlos Antunes + Désirée Pedro / Atelier do Corvo and Luis Aguiar/OutrosMercadus. ReD's lecture is called "Computation and Materiality"and the Exhibition opening will take place at the Espaço A, in the Casa Municipal da Cultura Fernando Távora in Aveiro, on the 11th of January at 18h30.

MORSlide featured in Italian Book

ReD's MORSlide project is featured in the italian book "Progettare la Luce", edited by Giordiana Arcesilai and Thomas W. Weissenberg, and published by Editrice Compositori. This book examines the opportunities and effects of exploring lighting solutions to affect the spatial qualities of the interior spaces of the house. MORSlide appears on page 22, showing how the morse-based texture of the plywoood skin enhance the lighting effects in the living space area.






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ReD receives the FEIDAD Award in Taipei (Taiwan)

ReD received the 2005 FEIDAD Award for its MCity Design Project. Making this moment even more special was the fact that the award was delivered by Mr. Cecil Balmond who is one of ReD's most inspiring references in the world of architecture and engineering. The cerimony took place at the Fine Arts Museum in Taipei with the presence of many distinguished guests, including Mr. Toyo Ito and Harvard's GSD Dean Moshen Mostafavi.

01 Images of the event at the Fine Arts Museum in Taipei.
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02 MMA and JPS receiving, the 2005 FEIDAD Outstanding Design Award from Mr. Cecil Balmond, awarded to ReD's MCity design project.

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03 The FEIDAD Award winners with the organizing committee.

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04 Photo with Taiwanese students at the end of the event.
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05 MMA and JPS with Profesor Yu-Tung Liu, organizer and chairman of the jury.

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06 MMA and JPS with Mr. Toyo Ito, with whom they had the privilege to meet during the event.

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07 FEIDAD Ceremony Final Dinner at a traditional Taiwanese Hot Pot restaurant.

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ReD receives the FEIDAD Award (Video)

ReD receives the FEIDAD Award from Mr. Cecil Balmond at the Fine Arts Museum in Tapei (Taiwan)

ReD Lecture @ Hong Kong University

Invited by professor Tao Zhu, ReD gave a lecture today at the Department of Architecture of the Hong Kong University. Presenting the studio's work and overview about digital technologies in architecture, ReD's lecture was part of the school's lecture series.

01 Lecture poster in the school.

ReD Lecture @ Chinese University, Hong-Kong

ReD lecture at the Faculty of Architecture at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. The conference starts at 4pm, in the Wong Foo Yuan Buil.








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ReD in Hong-Kong and Taiwan

Between December 5 and 16, Red travel to Hong-Kong and Taiwan.

In Hong-Kong, ReD will lecture at the following local architecture schools:
- December, 10: Department of Architecture, Chinese University of Hong Kong
- December 11: Faculty of Architecture, University of Hong Kong.
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On the December 15 ReD will be in Taipei (Taiwan) to receive the FEIDAD award.
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Meanwhile, here are some pictures of this vibrant and wild city!


01 View of the city from the Peak
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02 Mong Konk at night in Kowloon - one of the densiest places in the world!
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03 Victoria Harbour from Kwoloon in Hong Kong.
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04 Grand Lisboa Tower in Macau (left) and 101 Taipei Tower in Taiwan (right).
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ReD contributes to Christmas Lights in the City

Aligned with the city preparations for Christmas, ReD turned on the studio special lights. Porto's central trainstation gained one more reason to be visited during the holidays!


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SampleBOX in Prototiping

ReD's project SampleBOX, winner of the recent "Arquitectar o Ambiente" competition is now in progress towards its final construction. A 1:1 scale protoype of a part of the installation was CNC fabricated to test the whole building system. Luis de Sousa travelled to Lisbon to check in the factory the prototype and brought some pictures.
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01 General view of the protoype.


02 Detail of the longitudinal fixing system.
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