THE YEAR IN REVIEW 2020 2020 – what a year it has been! Globally, of course, it has been unforgettable; personally and professionally, it has been notable as well. Today I share some of our highlights from the year. We began the year (pre-pandemic) with a few New Year’s resolutions of our own. As inspired as ever by the global environmental challenge ahead of us as we entered a new decade, Antonio and I devised
TRUE EQUILIBRIUM “HEALTH AND WELLNESS IN ARCHITECTURE” BY DENISE SANTINI, RED STUDIO INC. ARCHITECTS Click here if you'd like to see the article in The Harvey Kalles Collection Magazine. Quite frequently, I am asked why we named our firm Red Studio. I cannot deny a passion for the colour red, but it also stands for our mission: re-defining environmental design. We have always taken a unique approach to sustainability in architecture, centering around human health
Reimagining the Workplace “Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.” - Sigmund Freud It’s easy to think that our 2019 selves had it so good. Our children went to school. We flocked to movie theatres to watch the latest blockbusters. We filled stadiums to cheer on our favourite teams while ordering over-priced beers. And we endured airports and crowded flights as we took our families on holiday. To pay for all this, we
Year In Review Blog Post We cannot believe that 2017 is already coming to a close, maybe it’s because it’s been such a busy year for us here at Red Studio. This year the studio celebrated 15 years of practice, which we marked with a party to remember. We’ve had some fantastic commissions for projects, generated a proposed project to represent Canada at an international exhibition, had a commercial office project reach completion, and participated
Our Holiday Gift to You........... Here at Red Studio, health and wellness are concepts we live by. These are the guiding principals that inform all of our decisions, and how our team works everyday. So to close out 2016, we have decided to give you our personal list of inexpensive ways that employers can help to increase the health and wellness of their teams. (Please note, they are in no particular order,
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Denise Santini Achieves WELL AP Certification RED Studio Inc. Principal Architect Denise Santini has a new certification to add to her credentials, she is now officially a WELL AP (Accredited Professional)! The WELL Building Standard is “an evidence based system for measuring, certifying and monitoring the performance of building features that impact health and well-being.” www.wellcertified.com The WELL Building Standard Version 1.0 was designed for commercial and institutional buildings, specifically Core and Shell, New and Existing
Best Holiday Gift Ideas for your little Architect ...Or the kid you hope will be a "Starchitect" one day Here at Red Studio, we are big fans of the holidays. It helps that there is usually a lot of Red at Christmas: red lights, red Starbucks cups, Santa in a red suit…you get the idea. Aside from all things Red at this time of year, we feel it is a great opportunity to find all
Memories from the 2016 Venice Biennale The Venice Biennale, the famed Italian exhibition of art and architecture comes to an end this weekend. Red Studio Principal Architects Antonio and Denise Santini were at the event this year (no the rest of the team isn’t jealous at all), and we thought we would share some of their favorite images from their trip. The exhibition, which began in 1895, rotates primarily between art and architecture each year.
A LOOK BACK AT EXPO 2015 It's been just over a year since we were at Expo, and here are 15 of our favourite stills from the week.
We had such a thrilling meeting with a new client this week that we just had to share the experience. Although we have to stay hush about certain aspects, we are pleased to announce (well maybe whisper) that Red Studio will be doing an office redesign of an environmentally conscious organization with a staff of 130. The company is under new leadership, and they have requested a revamp of their public spaces and some