Brandon Clifford creates heavy concrete sculptures that sway and roll
American designer Brandon Clifford has drawn inspiration from megalithic architecture to create concrete sculptures that join together like a jigsaw puzzle. More
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SO-IL designs affordable housing for urban centre in growing Mexican city
New York firm SO-IL has envisioned a six-storey, concrete apartment building for León, Mexico, which is meant to offer an alternative solution for the country's low-cost housing shortage. More
White concrete shutters front Brazilian university building
A covered street cuts through this new university campus building in northern Brazil designed by Rede Arquitetos, Croquis Projetos and Neudson Braga, providing a shaded and breezy area for students to socialise between classes. More
Bum-shaped sculptures feature in Axel Arigato's brutalist Copenhagen flagship
The monolithic concrete forms associated with brutalist architecture inspired the interiors of Axel Arigato's Copenhagen flagship store, which the shoe brand has designed in collaboration with Christian Halleröd. More
Di Gregorio Associati surrounds rural Italian house with planted concrete pergolas
Overgrown concrete pergolas have been installed around Monticello, a brick house restored by Di Gregorio Associati Architetti in northern Italy. More
Students' 3D-printed Concrete Choreography pillars provide a stage for dancers
Dancers at the Origen Festival in the Swiss Alps will perform around nine unique columns 3D-printed in concrete by students from ETH Zurich. More
Urko Sanchez Architects builds miniature walled city for orphans
Urko Sanchez Architects has designed a concrete compound in Djibouti for the charity SOS Children's Villages International as a home for vulnerable children. More
Prefabricated pine panels clad kindergarten near Barcelona
Architects Eduard Balcells, Ignasi Rius and Daniel Tigges have designed a wood-clad concrete kindergarten for the El Tiller Waldorf-Steiner School in Bellaterra, Spain. More
K59 Atelier merges its studio and home in concrete-framed block
Vietnamese practice K59 Atelier has designed its own architecture office and home for a family in Ho Chi Minh City, connecting two alleyways with an open and airy ground floor. More
Vo Trong Nghia Architects connects six triangular pavilions to create zigzag office
Vo Trong Nghia Architects has completed a series of six triangular concrete pavilions connected by a low block of office spaces for Vietnamese telecommunications group Viettel. More
AZL Architects wraps wheelchair ramp around multi-generational house
AZL Architects has completed Song House, a concrete five-bedroom house adapted to the needs of its elderly and infirm occupants in the rural village of Nansong, China. More
Goat House's shutters are made from wood recycled from its construction
Yalin Architectural Design made shutters from the wooden planks used for the board-formed concrete frame of Goat House, a holiday house in a small farming village in Turkey.
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Johan Sundberg adds concrete spa to 16th century Swedish estate
Johan Sundberg Arkitekter and Blasberg Andreasson have built Andrum, a concrete spa overlooking the grounds of a centuries-old estate in Höör, Sweden. More
Rotating concrete shutters enliven facade of housing block in Madrid
Openable concrete panels and sun-shading blinds add dynamism to the otherwise austere facades of the Elcano housing block by Madrid-based practice FRPO. More
S-AR builds tiny concrete chapel La Providencia in Mexico
A steeply pitched roof tops this small concrete and wood chapel that Mexican architecture firm S-AR has built in Monterrey. More
World's tallest modular tower is now Clement Canopy in Singapore
Construction company Bouygues Bâtiment International has built Clement Canopy, a pair of 140-metre-high towers made of prefabricated concrete modules. More
Traditional Islamic architecture informs ornamental concrete vaulting in Punchbowl Mosque
Local architecture studio Candalepas Associates has completed a mosque with a decorative concrete-vaulted roof in Sydney, Australia. More
MORQ's rammed-concrete Cloister House hides lush internal courtyard
Architecture studio MORQ has built an almost windowless house surrounding a plant-filled courtyard from rammed concrete in Perth, Australia. More
Lush gardens and courtyards feature in concrete Mexican business school EBC Aguascalientes
Mexican design studio Ignacio Urquiza, Bernardo Quinzaños, Centro de Colaboración Arquitectónica has completed this concrete business school on a lush site near Mexican city Aguascalientes. More