Concrete architecture

Brutalist icon Boston City Hall celebrates 50th anniversary

Few buildings have been more controversial than those belonging to the brutalist genre; and Boston City Hall is no exception. When its concrete block volumes were unveiled on the 10 February 1969, the launch was underscored by as much fanfare as criticism...

Architecture / 7 Feb 2019

Chris Dyson transforms neglected east London workshop into modern loft apartments

London’s ever-evolving urban realm finds its perfect embodiment in the city’s East End, where creative hubs meet neglected warehouses and growing residential neighbourhoods. Bringing together all the above in one fell swoop, is this transformation of an old building in...

Architecture / 16 Jan 2019

A concrete retreat in California designed by Mork-Ulnes Architects is equipped for climate change

Husband-and-wife team Casper and Lexie Mork-Ulnes, an architect and designer respectively, work together at San Francisco- and Oslo-based practice Mork-Ulnes Architects. One of their latest projects is a compact concrete guest house in California’s Sonoma Valley, for which they have...

Architecture / 13 Jan 2019

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

Set in a tranquil, suburban location in Switzerland, on the edges of Basel’s Allschwil Forest, this house by Buchner Bründler Architects is an ode to concrete. The rough grey material forges the flat roof, the garden walls and the grid-like...

Architecture / 9 Jan 2019

Herculean strength: a concrete house makes its mark in Luxembourg

On a sleepy residential street, between an old farmhouse and a suburban villa, Hercule house makes for a strong statement. The monolithic structure appears as a solid concrete volume, designed by Luxembourg-based architecture practice 2001 and located in Mondorf-les-bains, in the country’s...

Zil Pasyon Private Residence seychelles RHE architects

Architecture / 8 Jan 2019

Studio RHE designs dramatic Seychelles residences for Six Senses resorts

Mixing dramatic landscapes, warm climes and powerful, futuristic lines, the Zil Pasyon residences by Studio RHE are as eye-catching a piece of architecture as you’re likely to get. Designed by the London-based studio as part of the Seychelles’ Six Senses...

Architecture / 29 Dec 2018

John Portman’s Entelechy II is a complex map of a long and fruitful life

No matter how hard you might want to try, it is very difficult to stray off course at John Portman’s Sea Island house. The architect and developer (1924 – 2017) who was based in Atlanta, designed this summer getaway – its...

Hole House by SeARCH and Christian Müller

Architecture / 26 Dec 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...

le corbusier apartment renovation berlin

Architecture / 6 Dec 2018

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 / 3 Dec 2018

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...