MVRDV designs "urban living room" with stacked plateaus for Shenzhen
Dutch architecture studio MVRDV's mixed-use Shenzhen Terraces development will be built at the Shimao ShenKong International Centre in Shenzhen. More
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Baerbel Mueller and Juergen Strohmayer create concrete gallery in Accra
Architect Baerbel Mueller and architectural designer Juergen Strohmayer have created a multi-use gallery for the Nubuke Foundation in Ghana. More
Photographer Roberto Conte captures Chandigarh's iconic modernist buildings
Photographer Roberto Conte has captured the geometric shapes of Le Corbusier's weathered concrete buildings at Chandigarh's in his latest series. More
Tectoniques sets ochre-coloured concrete house into French hillside
Architecture studio Tectoniques has built a house from concrete dyed with ochre that emerges from the ground in Saint-Cyr-au-Mont-d'Or, France. More
Glass corridor connects underground concrete extension to house in Spain
Architecture studio Jordi Hidalgo Tané has extended a small stone building in rural Navarra, Spain, with a subterranean concrete annex accessed via a glass corridor. More
LUO Studio turns abandoned concrete foundations into community centre
Architcture practice. LUO Studio has extended the abandoned foundations and concrete columns of a residential project with a timber-framed upper storey to create a community centre in Yuanheguan, China. More
Pavel Míček Architects sinks house into a hillside in Czech mountains
Pavel Míček Architects has built a concrete holiday home in the Beskydy Mountains of eastern Europe. More
Architecture Club builds cast-concrete studio for sculptor Monika Sosnowska
Architecture Club has completed a sculpture studio for Polish artist Monika Sosnowska, featuring board-marked concrete walls and huge windows. More
Concrete home in Slovenia combines living spaces with a ceramics studio
Slovenian practice Arhitektura d.o.o has designed a low concrete house in the suburbs of Ljubljana around a central courtyard that connects a series of living spaces with the owner's ceramics studio. More
MoDus Architects wraps Bressanone tourist office around a tree
The TreeHugger tourist information office in Bressanone, northern Italy, features smooth concrete walls that curve around the trunk of a tree. More
Julia Olanders makes "toxic" vases from insulation foam and concrete
Stockholm-based designer Julia Olanders has used construction materials that are usually hidden in buildings to create a series of decorative vases for her Betweenness project. More
Berlin's Brutalist Silence office has barely anything inside
Concrete surfaces and just a smattering of furnishings provide a "silent stage" for members using this Berlin office, designed by Annabell Kutucu. More
Colonnade extends from concrete house on an old vineyard in Switzerland
A concrete house in Switzerland by architecture practice DF_DC has an outdoor terrace on a plinth banded by an asymmetrical colonnade of rectangular columns. More
David Adjaye curves pink concrete around Los Angeles store The Webster
David Adjaye has used pink-tinted concrete to form a "tough and gentle" store in Los Angeles for fashion retailer The Webster, which marks the British-Ghanaian architect's first project in California. More
B.E. Architecture builds Mermaid Beach Residence with a sense of "permanence"
Heavy concrete walls anchor this family home in Queensland, Australia, to its beachside setting, while hiding it from a busy road nearby. More
Tropical plants cover the balconies of Chicland hotel in Vietnam
Concrete balconies filled with tropical plants cover the Chicland hotel in Danang, Vietnam, designed by Vo Trong Nghia – the Dezeen Awards 2019 architect of the year. More
Pale pink shutters shade classrooms of a concrete school in Switzerland
Beige tiles and pale pink window shutters cover the exterior of this concrete secondary school in Romanshorn, Switzerland. More
Concrete grid forms student housing block in Paris by Atelier Villemard et Associé
Atelier Villemard et Associés used a structural grid of exposed concrete to define the exterior and interior of this student housing block on the outskirts of Paris. More
Studio Rick Joy designs concrete apartment complex in Mexico City's Polanco neighbourhood
Long windows are embedded into the board-formed concrete walls of this residential building in Mexico City's upscale Polanco area, designed by American architecture firm Studio Rick Joy. More
"Demolition is sometimes the best option" says Bartlett professor at Net Zero Carbon talk
Construction experts discuss the ways that the building industry can move towards having zero carbon emissions in this panel discussion filmed by Dezeen for Kingspan at the Building Centre in London. More