Ten new Italian wineries with a striking architectural imprint
Wine-making culture, landscape, and contemporary architecture are the inebriating ingredients of ten new Italian wineries on show in Merano.
Brazilian architect Paulo Mendes da Rocha dies, aged 92
The late Pritzker Prize architect Paulo Mendes da Rocha mostly worked in São Paulo, but his austere raw concrete buildings influenced contemporary architecture in South America and beyond.
Wormhole Library by MAD Architects is nearing completion in China
The sensuously curved and multi-functional organic concrete structure of the Wormhole Library is punctured, creating voids of varying sizes that let the light into the interiors.
Brutalist-inspired furniture pushing lightweight beton brut to the extreme
A pointed rocking chair and a Chaise lounge composed of interlacing planes. Thomas Musca and Duyi Han joined forces to cast lightweight beton brut furniture combining brutalist aesthetics with computer programming.
Mashad CEO Headquarters: Next Office reinterprets traditional Iranian architecture with concrete volumes and fluid voids
Mashad CEO Headquarters consists into a concrete cube smoothly carved by a giant arch sheltering volumetric communal spaces.
TreeHugger by MoDusArchitects wraps around a tree with convex concrete volumes
Italian firm MoDusArchitects has completed TreeHugger an eye-catching concrete building for the Touring Information Office in the city of Bressanone, Italy. The structure raises its body on tiptoe embracing an ancient tree.
The Twine house twists and peels up a continuous concrete slab
The Twine conceptual house by Antony Gibbon sits under a wave-like piece of concrete reflecting the hills surrounding as a “series of organic forms”.
Casa Dende Duratex combines Bahia’s architectural and natural elements with a minimal and contemporary twist
Burnt concrete, dark wood, contemporary bespoke furniture and a folding latticework enliven Casa Dende Duratex, NJ+ Studio’s moody apartment intertwining Bahia’s “bossa” and poetry.
Blue Passage: CIMENTO®’s furniture collection is made from light concrete
Who said that cement has to be heavy? The first light concrete furniture collection by new brand CIMENTO® debuts in Milan withing the architectural BLUE PASSAGE pavilion.
Ayb Middle School by Storatek Architectural Studio in Armenia
Storatek Architectural Studio’s C building for Ayb Middle School features bare concrete volumes and an interior design with a low-key color-scheme.
Valentin Jeck photographs the Brutalist architecture shaping the identity of former Yugoslavia
A MoMA’s specially commissioned photo essay by Valentin Jeck explores neglected buildings, monumental housing complexes and concrete skyscrapers built in the region of former Yugoslavia.
Anna Karlin and Fernando Mastrangelo cast Chess-inspired furniture from different materials
Pastel hues of layered concrete and crystals of salt, quartz and silica inform the Chess-inspired furniture collection by Anna Karlin and Fernando Mastrangelo in New York.
Siman by Gian Paolo Venier: Iranian architecture… À la table!
Concrete cake cake stands and candle holders. Gian Paolo Venier translates Iranian architecture into a tableware collection for UrbiEtOrbi.
Neal Aronowitz’s Concrete Canvas furniture is folded like fabrics
Neal Aronowitz designed a gravity defying sculptural and functional furniture collection made of Concrete Canvas innovative material obtained from solidified concrete cloths on a roll.
DWM17: 6 emerging Mexican designers experiment with volcanic stone and concrete
Semi-liquid pastel-coloured stone, porous lava-rock vessels and responsible radiators. 6 emerging Mexican designers mesh traditional crafts with urban style.
Unbreakable design: casting style with concrete, quartz, marble and lava
Arik Levy, Ivanka, gt2P and more launch a new trend for unbreakable design in Miami. Heavy to lift, comfortable to sit on and great to look at.
Fernando Mastrangelo casts MMATERIAL minimal furniture in pastel-shaded cement
MMATERIAL new furniture collection by Fernando Mastrangelo combines pastel shaded design with minimalist geometries.
Zanotta 2016 collection includes a one-legged concrete table and sofas with overlapping bands
Zanotta presents new products and re-issued furniture by contemporary designers that re-work the projects of the Great Masters. From the re-edition of a forgotten concrete table by Piero Bottoni to a tribute to Carlo Mollino.
Besonias Almeida nests a concrete family house in an Argentinian forest by the sea
A concrete pergola creating a pattern of light and shadow welcomes guests to a summer family house by Besonias Almeida Arquitectos. An open air courtyard and sober interiors are hidden by the Nature of Argentinian Northern coast.
Íris Cantante designed a rock band’s working studio in Buenos Aires
Corrugated steel framing and climbing vegetation compose the soundproof and discreet building by Íris Cantante hosting the creative headquarters of Babasonicos rock band working studio in BuenosAires.
Luciano Kruk stacks concrete and glass volumes for Golf House panoramic villa
Can a building be light, transparent and luminous but also provide privacy and offer a 180° panorama? Golf House by Luciano Kruk achieves that by overlapping concrete volumes with glass walls.
Landskating: 9 great stories of concrete ramps from Tokyo to Paris
Landskating: 9 great stories of concrete ramps from Tokyo to Paris… What happens when architects and skaters team up to make cities friendlier?
Vertical cemetery: a respectful reconversion of a grain silo on Malmö harbour
Swedish students propose to turn a disused grain silo into a columbarium-inspired vertical cemetery as a sensitive solution for Malmö port area.
Souvenir d’un Futur by Laurent Kronental explores Paris brutalist utopias
Brutalist melancholia and neglecter modernism: Souvenir d’un Futur photo essay by Laurent Kronental dives into the concrete ocean floating around Paris and portrays the elderly “urban veterans” who live in it.
Studio Janréji brings new life to the Moulin de la Galette in Paris
Studio Janréji and Lemoal & Lemoal re-design the interiors of the famous Moulin de la Galette in Paris: brutalist concrete meet velvet and wooden paneling to welcome guests into the windmill restaurant loved by Renoir, Toulouse Lautrec and Dalida.
Casa Bahia Azul by Felipe Assadi
Felipe Assadi designed a concrete house and a painter’s atelier partially submerged by a sloping landscape on the Chilean coast.
Black Gold asphalt-made design hints at the doom of consumerism
Black Gold design collection by Quintus Kropholler explores the unconventional beauty of asphalt and refers to the doom of petrol-driven society.
Cubitts launches glasses made with King’s Cross’ architecture ingredients
Inspired by the architectural ingredients of King’s Cross, London brand Cubitts presents a collection of handcrafted glasses made in coal, concrete, rust and copper.
Casa Brutale by OPA merges into Greek cliffside
OPA studio designed Casa Brutale, a conceptual architecture completely immersed into the cliffside of the Aegean cost. Concrete, glass, wood and a pool-roof integrate with the natural landscape paying homage to pure brutalism as well.
Chemical Brothers Go Brutalist!
French filmaker Michel Gondry shoot Chemical Brothers’ new music video in Paris brutalist architecture, just a stone’s throw away from the Eiffel tower… and a Statue of Liberty.