In the new Phaidon book “Concrete Architecture,” Los Angeles writers Sam Lubell and Greg Goldin examine a construction material that’s often derided as the building block of urban eyesores, but, they ...
Wrapped in facades of concrete, etched with the fragments of enlarged sketches, the Tchoban Foundation Museum for Architectural Drawing in Berlin exploits the craft of construction to celebrate the ...
Ornate buildings invite us to pore over their beautiful details, but the plain, often imposing facades of post-war concrete architecture usually make us look away–or look past them entirely. Yet in a ...
These buildings can come in any shape or size, so long as their design embodies more than just a greenwashed buzzword ...
Architect-developer Jonathan Segal’s 5,300-square-foot house, cast in concrete around a reflecting and swimming pool, has won the sole honor award by the American Institute of Architects’ local ...
Yale University's Art and Architecture Building, designed by Paul Rudolph and completed in 1963, is a prime example of Brutalist architecture. Courtesy of Lauren Manning/Flickr Roman Mars’ podcast 99% ...
Concrete's strength and structural integrity come not only in its material properties, but also from how it's molded during construction. An architecture student has devised a clever way to build ...
When talking about building a better future, concrete is often maligned as an out-of-date material that is bad for the environment. But is it as simple as that? We recast the debate. It takes real ...
Heroic: Concrete Architecture and the New Boston, by Mark Pasnik, Chris Grimley, and Michael Kubo. Monacelli Press, October 2015, 336 pages, $50. March 1, 2016 Heroic: Concrete Architecture and the ...
Renowned Canadian designer Omer Arbel has announced the completion of his latest project; a stunning family home dubbed 75.9 that's nestled in a sprawling hayfield in the Canadian Pacific Northwest.
Using architectural design sensibilities, Brazilian architect Paulo Kobylka created these unique sofas that look like stacked slabs of concrete. Unlike actual slabs of concrete, however, these are ...