Concrete architecture

Fine lines: Kristine Norlander’s vision of the Lassens’ modernist architecture

By Sujata Burman • Last updated 28 October 22

Raw edges: Melbourne’s Elwood House is an exercise in brick and concrete

By Ellie Stathaki • Last updated 28 October 22

Oscar Niemeyer’s Algerian architecture uncovered

Jason Oddy’s photographic study of Oscar Niemeyer’s Algerian buildings, set alongside research and archival documents, explores the architecture’s inseparable relationship to revolutionary politics in a new book from Columbia University Press, titled The revolution will be stopped halfway: Oscar Niemeyer in Algeria

By Harriet Thorpe • Last updated 28 October 22

Apollo Architects & Associates make waves with seaside residence

By Lucy Peart • Last updated 28 October 22

London’s brutalist Balfron Tower is brought back to life

By Jonathan Bell • Last updated 28 October 22

Futureproofing: Oyler Wu Collaborative design a new creative laboratory

By Carren Jao • Last updated 28 October 22

Richard Meier & Partners unveil first residential project in the Czech Republic

By Ellie Stathaki • Last updated 28 October 22

Architecture Club designs a new atelier for artist Monika Sosnowska in Warsaw

An architectural exercise in purity and restraint, Polish sculptor Monika Sosnowska’s new atelier is a simple concrete volume, and the first-built project of Basel-based architects Karolina Slawecka and Pawel Krzeminski under their new studio. Photographed by Hélène Binet, the radically simple atelier was featured in the Smart Art-themed November issue of Wallpaper* magazine (W*248)

By Harriet Thorpe • Last updated 28 October 22

A modern education: Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts gets a facelift

By Philippine Wright • Last updated 27 October 22

David Collins Studio completes art deco-inspired Harrods’ Superbrands department

By Ali Morris • Last updated 27 October 22

V&A pavilion at Venice Architecture Biennale to explore the legacy of Robin Hood Gardens

By Harriet Thorpe • Last updated 27 October 22

Cherem Arquitectos creates a concrete landmark in the Mexico City suburb of Bosque Real

By Emma O'Kelly • Last updated 26 October 22

Woods Bagot designs a concrete and limestone house anchored to the Australian coast

By Stephen Crafti • Last updated 26 October 22

Villa Mörtnäs by Fourfoursixsix is an exercise in Swedish simplicity

By Helen Berg • Last updated 26 October 22

Ibañez Shaw's Fort Worth Camera Studios land in Texas

By Ellie Stathaki • Last updated 26 October 22

Di Gregorio Associati's cinematic pergola frames a rural Italian home

A concrete pergola becomes a frame for the landscape, and a sculptural transition between interior and exterior, at a house in the Emilian countryside

By Harriet Thorpe • Last updated 25 October 22

A concrete family compound in Basel by Buchner Bründler creates a family microcosm

By Ellie Stathaki • Last updated 25 October 22

Art and architecture converge at the Saarland Museum’s new extension

By Sophie Lovell • Last updated 21 October 22

Concrete condominium: Tadao Ando’s first residential building in Manhattan sets a new standard in luxury living

By Pei-Ru Keh • Last updated 21 October 22

Saint Louis Art Museum unveils its David Chipperfield-designed extension

By Ellie Stathaki • Last updated 20 October 22

Desert queen: a Tucson Mountain Retreat blends into the Arizona landscape

By Sara Sturges • Last updated 20 October 22

Future perfect: a new era for Preston Bus Station

By Harriet Thorpe • Last updated 20 October 22

Pezo von Ellrichshausen's Guna House stakes a fearless claim on one of Chile's leafy lagoons

By Emma Blundell • Last updated 20 October 22

Oasi Architects’ FGN House is an exercise in concrete subtlety

By Ellie Stathaki • Last updated 20 October 22