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Red Daring

The 500-hectare tract of land lacked a geodesic marker or identifying emblem. Ultimately, the architect had a thought: “The house should be the marker”

architect Luís Rebelo de Andrade drove the hour from Lisbon to what was then the future site of a client’s country retreat, he got lost. Herdade da Considerada, the 500-hectare tract of land on which his client planned to build, is situated in a forest near the Sado River and close to Comporta, a town

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