Pink marble core cuts through concrete interiors of Portuguese house
Architect Daniel Zamarbide and Leopold Banchini Architects have designed a concrete house in Lisbon with a central core of local pink marble. More
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Petra bathroom collection is made from stain-resistant concrete
Designers Marco Merendi and Diego Vencato have collaborated with Italian firm Gypsum to develop a dirt-resistant concrete, which they used to create a collection of bathroom furniture suitable for outdoor use. More
SO&CO squeezes 2.7-metre-wide office block into alley in Tokyo
SO&CO has slotted a skinny office building into an alley between two buildings in Tokyo, Japan, which contains five tiny concrete workspaces. More
House in New Zealand sits on a concrete plinth surrounded by trees
Herbst Architects has raised a house in Piha, New Zealand, on a concrete plinth and steel stilts to give views through the dense woodland to the beach. More
Bennetts Associates completes HQ for the Royal College of Pathologists
Angled windows in deep reveals zig-zag across the elevation of Bennetts Associates' brick and concrete home for the Royal College of Pathologists in Aldgate, London. More
Arced concrete walls invite visitors into House in Konohana
FujiwaraMuro Architects has built a house in Osaka, Japan, which is separated from the street by two curved concrete walls. More
Copenhagen's Yaffa restaurant takes cues from bustling French cafes
Multi-disciplinary design studio Frama used mismatched wooden chairs and concrete surfaces to create a Middle Eastern version of the humble French bistro inside this Copenhagen restaurant. More
J Mayer H carves house in Germany from a stack of concrete blocks
Architecture studio J Mayer H has stripped back a set of brutalist buildings to create a house in Germany that occupies a stack of concrete blocks with mirrored walls. More
Kruchin Arquitetura adds concrete library to Capobianco House in São Paulo
Brazilian firm Kruchin Arquitetura has added a concrete and glass extension to a family dwelling it completed in São Paulo over three decades ago. More
Treehouse is a sloping block of co-living apartments with a tree-filled atrium
Architecture studio Bo-Daa has designed Treehouse, a co-living complex in Seoul that is a stack of micro-apartments surrounding a planted atrium in a triangular concrete block. More
Vanke Design Community is cluster of workspaces topped by parks
A campus-like park of concrete offices topped with green roofs forms the new Vanke Design Community in Shenzhen, featuring two sunken plots completed by architecture practice FCHA. More
Indoor courtyards interrupt Restaurant y Sea in northeast China
Greenery-filled courtyards and waffle ceilings bring light to the interiors of this concrete restaurant, which Vector Architects has erected near the shore of Beidaihe, China. More
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
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