Concrete architecture

le corbusier apartment renovation berlin

Step inside Philipp Mohr’s loving restoration of a Le Corbusier apartment in Berlin

Architect Philipp Mohr, who was raised in West Germany, was always drawn to the Bauhaus aesthetic even when in the late 1990s many of these modernist buildings were in decay. ‘At that time, I felt like an archeologist, discovering true...

Architecture / 1 week ago

Mapping out concrete architecture in Los Angeles

Concrete structures across Los Angeles are charted in a new map that documents the best of the city’s brutalist buildings to visit. Deane Masden, architecture critic and former associate editor of design at Architect Magazine, has curated a selection of...

Thomas P. Murphy Design Studio Building by Arquitectonica

Architecture / 20 Nov 2018

Concrete architecture: our pick of the finest

Tadao Ando to John Pawson and OMA, many architects and practices have been inspired to use concrete – durable, low maintenance, strong and supremely moldable – it’s one the most versatile building materials available and has been used to create churches...

Architecture / 15 Nov 2018

Artist Nick Veasey unveils farm-inspired concrete X-ray studio and gallery in Kent

A dilapidated corrugated iron pig shed in a Kent field has been replaced with a gallery and studio for acclaimed artist Nick Veasey. He commissioned Guy Hollaway Architects to design the 265 sq m Process Gallery to hold his own...

Hole House by SeARCH and Christian Müller

Architecture / 12 Nov 2018

SeARCH and Christian Müller’s buried hillside Hole House is a holiday home with altitude

Two architects meet in Amsterdam in 2002 and begin talking. One is a local who dreams of escaping from the Low Countries to the mountains. The other is Swiss with the rights to buy property in his homeland and a...

Architecture / 30 Oct 2018

Architect Marcos Acayaba’s seductive 1975 modernist house in São Paulo

Located in Cidade Jardim, an upmarket residential neighbourhood in central São Paulo, the Milan House is almost impossible to find, hidden as it is among dead ends, one-way streets and discreetly tasteful barriers that keep prying eyes at bay. Even...

Peter Zumthor Secular Retreat Living Architecture

Architecture / 29 Oct 2018

Peter Zumthor unveils Devon villa inspired by Andrea Palladio

Like a sundial plotting the passing hours of the day through light and shadow, Peter Zumthor’s Secular Retreat in Chivelstone, Devon offers guests the gentle sense of time passing from daybreak to dusk. A decade in the making, the five-bedroom...

Architecture / 26 Oct 2018

A concrete house in Ecuador takes its cues from its rich natural context

The conditioning factors of architecture can be multiple and diverse, but the context (the site and wider terrain), where a building is going to be placed, always has a special and inescapable role in its design. It can be one of many deciding...

Architecture / 13 Oct 2018

Tadao Ando-designed Wrightwood 659 exhibition space opens in Chicago

Chicago’s architectural legacy has always been an integral facet of the city’s culture – one that has experienced fresh interest with the occurrence of the Chicago Architecture Bienniale since 2015. The opening of Wrightwood 659 this week, a private institution...

The living room at Casa Bula, by Bearth & Deplazes, Ticino, Switzerland

Architecture / 27 Aug 2018

A wedge-shaped retreat, buried in the hillside in Ticino, Switzerland, is a house of many layers

Modern Switzerland means concrete, not cow bells. The country’s reputation as a wellspring of discreet but daring domestic invention has been much chronicled in these pages, but every now and again a house comes along that redefines the form yet...

Architecture / 26 Aug 2018

France celebrates George Clemenceau, First World War prime minister with two architectural projects

This year France celebrates journalist and politician George Clemenceau, the country’s prime minister during the First World War with a series of projects and events paying homage to this key political figure rolling out across the country to mark the event. Nantes-based architecture...

Architecture / 15 Aug 2018

First look at Kengo Kuma’s V&A Dundee

The highly sculptural V&A Museum of Design Dundee is Japanese architect Kengo Kuma’s first UK building – as well as Scotland’s very first dedicated design museum. The new structure is now complete and gearing up to throw open its doors...