Alphaville's Hikone Studio Apartments are housed in an angular concrete block
Kyoto studio Alphaville has squeezed an angular concrete apartment building onto a small plot in the Japanese city of Hikone (+ slideshow). More
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Fabric-cast concrete is the construction method of the future, say designers
Designers Ron Culver and Joseph Sarafian have developed a method of casting concrete in Lycra stretched by robotic arms, which they believe could be used to create radical new architectural forms (+ movie). More
Bing Thom combines curves and points with library in British Columbia
Bing Thom Architects has completed a library near Vancouver featuring angled concrete walls, curved windows and a pointy corner that resembles a ship's bow (+ slideshow). More
BAK Arquitectos nestles exposed concrete holiday home in forest glade
Slabs of board-marked concrete form the walls, floors and roof of this holiday home designed by architects by Luciano Kruk and María Victoria Besonías for a coastal forest near Buenos Aires (+ slideshow). More
Localarchitecture transforms 1960s house into Swiss embassy for Ivory Coast
Angular concrete columns surround this extension to a 1960s villa in the Ivory Coast's economic capital Abidjan, which Localarchitecture has reconfigured to house the Swiss embassy (+ slideshow). More
Bands of corduroy-textured concrete wrap GPY Arquitectos' undulating art school in Tenerife
Swathes of ribbed concrete and glass form curvaceous walls and a spiralling walkway for this art faculty at a Tenerife university, designed by local studio GPY Arquitectos (+ slideshow). More
Colonnades line the terraces of Antonini Darmon's Arches Boulogne apartments
French firm Antonini Darmon has completed a social housing block near Paris, featuring a white concrete facade surrounded on all sides by rows of arch-fronted balconies (+ slideshow). More
Lisson Gallery opens a new location under New York's High Line
Studio MDA and Studio Christian Wassmann have collaborated to create the first US outpost for Lisson Gallery, which has a roster of contemporary artists that includes Ai Weiwei and Marina Abramović (+ slideshow). More
Toyo Ito creates fluted walls of white concrete at Museo Internacional del Barroco
Curled white concrete walls and a water-filled courtyard frame this museum of Baroque art and culture in Mexico by Japanese architect Toyo Ito (+ slideshow). More
Miami Dior boutique by Barbarito Bancel is sheathed in curved white concrete panels
French studio Barbarito Bancel Architectes has draped a Dior clothing boutique in Miami in an assemblage of sculpted white panels, intended to evoke a pleated skirt (+ slideshow). More
Zaha Hadid Architects completes "oyster-like" ferry terminal in Salerno
Zaha Hadid Architects has unveiled its first completed building since the death of its founder, a new maritime terminal for ferries and cruise liners in Salerno, Italy (+ slideshow). More
Four concrete towers make up Metro's BN House in São Paulo
Courtyards, balconies and roof terraces all features in this São Paulo house by local studio Metro, which is made up of four separate but connected concrete towers (+ slideshow). More
FHHH Friends creates "rough and ready" concrete tea-fermentation facility in South Korea
This tea-fermentation facility by South Korean office FHHH Friends features a combination of opaque and perforated concrete walls, which also screen a cafe, restaurant and a house (+ slideshow). More
Concrete and slatted-timber morgue by AE Arquitectos overlooks a Spanish harbour
AE Arquitectos has combined exposed concrete, white render and slatted timber for this morgue in Spain's Asturias principality, which features terraces overlooking a harbour (+ slideshow). More
Triangular openings pattern handmade concrete facade of Khuôn Studio's Kontum House
Concrete blocks with triangular apertures allow light to filter into the rooms and courtyards of this house in Vietnam's Central Highlands, designed by local architects office Khuôn Studio (+ slideshow). More
Casa na Gateira zigzags to follow the topography of a Portuguese mountain landscape
This zigzag-shaped holiday home in northern Portugal features a series of stepped levels, designed by Lisbon architecture studio Camarim Arquitectos to evoke "a walk in the countryside" (+ slideshow). More
Alex Hogrefe's conceptual retreat cuts into a remote Icelandic clifftop
Architectural visualiser Alex Hogrefe has imagined a precarious concrete retreat cut into the edge of a remote clifftop in Iceland, as part of a series of tutorials in creating renderings (+ slideshow). More
Pitsou Kedem's Lago events complex contrasts opaque and translucent materials
Architect Pitsou Kedem has completed an events hall in Rishon LeZion, Israel, featuring translucent glass-plank facades designed to "glow like a firefly" at night (+ slideshow). More
Scott Benedict captures the raw concrete of the Cité Rateau housing estate in Paris
Photo essay: American photographer Scott Benedict has travelled to the outskirts of Paris to photograph a little-known concrete housing estate, designed by French architects Jean Renaudie and Rénée Gailhoustet (+ slideshow). More
Slatted roof casts dramatic shadows over gateway to new university campus in Brazil
Architecture studios Rede Arquitetos and Croquis Projetos have completed the first building of a new university campus in Crateús, Brazil: an administration block that spans an access road to the site (+ slideshow). More