Concrete architecture

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

This Dutch concrete villa is a calm symphony of interlocking rectangles

By Jonathan Bell Last updated 20 October 22

Cliffhanger: Zaha Hadid’s Messner Mountain Museum is carved into Mount Kronplatz

By Ellie Stathaki Last updated 20 October 22

Heatherwick Studio’s 1000 Trees project takes root in Shanghai

By Austin Williams Last updated 20 October 22

Chris Dyson transforms neglected east London workshop into modern loft apartments

By Ellie Stathaki Last updated 20 October 22

Hard matters: Concrete Concept tours the world of brutalism

By Sujata Burman Last updated 18 October 22

Victorian townhouse in Hackney transformed by Dedraft

A late Victorian townhouse in East London's Hackney is transformed by Dedraft into a modern home with an emphasis on light, materials, minimalism and quality of space

By Ellie Stathaki Last updated 13 October 22

This Portuguese farmhouse takes its cues from its natural surrounds

NaMora House is a Portuguese farmhouse by architects Filipe Pina and David Bilo that opens a dialogue with its leafy surrounds

By Ellie Stathaki Last updated 13 October 22

Concrete architecture and geometrical shapes form Tense studio's Greek home design

Greek studio Tense Architecture Network composes this rural home's geometric concrete architecture out of a circle and a triangle

By Ellie Stathaki Last updated 12 October 22

Venice Beach house bridges pragmatism and minimalism

A minimalist Venice Beach house by Los Angeles-based architect Dan Brunn combines pragmatism, functionality and contemporary aesthetics

By Ellie Stathaki Last updated 12 October 22

Govaert & Vanhoutte unveils brutalist villa in the Belgian woods

A brutalist concrete villa, nestled in its terrain in the Belgian woods outside Brussels, is the latest residential offering by Bruges-based architecture studio Govaert & Vanhoutte

By Ellie Stathaki Last updated 12 October 22

Ruby City by David Adjaye is Texas’ newest architectural jewel

By Benoit Loiseau Last updated 12 October 22

London icon: inside Centre Point’s facelift by Conran + Partners

By Ellie Stathaki Last updated 12 October 22

Kahlstrasse House: Buchner Bründler Architekten breaks the mould in Basel with stacked blocks of textured concrete

By Catarina de Almeida Brito Last updated 12 October 22

Brutalist cathedral in the UK opens to the public following renovation

By Ellie Stathaki Last updated 11 October 22

Grey matter: Atelier Kempe Thill’s Antwerp housing draws on the city’s modernist legacy

By Ellie Stathaki Last updated 11 October 22

Italian architect Alfredo Vanotti designs house in the Alps as an ‘inhabited terrace’

By Ellie Stathaki Last updated 11 October 22

SAOTA’s cliff-hanger house on Bali’s coastline has us hooked

By Daven Wu Last updated 11 October 22

Architect Laurence Quinn welcomes us to his renovated Barbican home

By Ellie Stathaki Last updated 11 October 22

Casa Mirante: Brazilian firm FGMF designs a stylishly functional family home

By Sara Sturges Last updated 11 October 22

MoDus Architects designs a tree-hugging tourist office in Northern Italy

A new, sculpturally concrete tourist office in the northern Italian town of Bressanone wraps itself around an existing Platanus tree to a design by South Tyrol based architecture practice MoDus Architects

By Jason Sayer Last updated 10 October 22

Quiet contemplation: Vector Architects' beachside library in China makes the perfect reading retreat

By Frederika Fraser Last updated 10 October 22