Concrete architecture
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Grafton's Town House is a celebration of openness and community
Grafton Architects designs Town House for Kingston University London, combining a library and a dance school in a building conceived around light, openness and social interaction
By Ellie Stathaki Last updated
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Apollo design Grigio, a minimalist concrete house in Tokyo
By Ellie Stathaki Last updated
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Open house: an unassuming Argentinian family home communes with nature
By Sara Sturges Last updated
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Concrete synergy: a modern house where Brazil meets Australia
By Ellie Stathaki Last updated
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Brutal beauty: Mexico’s leading creative couple cement their passion for concrete
By Emma O'Kelly Last updated
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Noah’s ark: a concrete house floats above South Poland’s mountainous landscape
By Sara Sturges Last updated
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A concrete house in Ecuador takes its cues from its rich natural context
By Rómulo Moya Peralta Last updated
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Vårdal Arkitekter’s angular concrete and larch house blends seamlessly into a Tønsberg neighbourhood
By Beatrice Guazzi Last updated
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Concrete futures: French artist-designer Frédérick Gautier sets his sights on LA
By Michael Slenske Last updated
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Modern Australian beach house responds to 2015 bushfires
A beach house and studio by Matt Goodman Architecture Office in Australia is a refined, pro bono work created following the country's 2015 bushfires
By Ellie Stathaki Last updated
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The postwar public art that became a symbol of the British modernist dream
By Harriet Lloyd-Smith Last updated
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Welcome to Sarajevo: transforming the Historical Museum in Venice
By Ellie Stathaki Last updated
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Office KGDVS’s Tim van Laere Gallery prepares for April opening in Antwerp
By Tom Seymour Last updated
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A concrete Melbourne home centred on nature and mindfulness
Canopy House by Powell & Glenn is a Melbourne house built around mindfulness and a passion for open-air, concrete South American architecture
By Ellie Stathaki Last updated
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View master: a Turkish house in Çeşme perfectly frames its sea vistas
By Ellie Stathaki Last updated
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Concrete celebration: exploring brutalism through the lens of Simon Phipps
By Ellie Stathaki Last updated
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Balancing act: step into Pezo von Ellrichshausen’s inverted pyramid home
By Ellie Stathaki Last updated
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Japanese architect Go Fujita designs a concrete live/work space for himself
By Ellie Stathaki Last updated
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Centre stage: Aberrant Architecture create a public platform for performance in Swansea
By Elly Parsons Last updated
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Brutalist icon Preston Bus Station gets facelift by John Puttick Associates
By Ellie Stathaki Last updated
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Geir Grung’s UFO-like hydroelectric station in the Norwegian mountains
The Suldal power station complex, part of industrial giant Norsk Hydro’s huge hydroelectric development in the 1960s, is an unassuming design destination with tourism potential. Architect Geir Grung, who hatched design concepts quickly with very little self-doubt, designed the buildings to dominate nature and reflect the progressive spirit of the space age. Inspired by Danish architect Jørn Utzon, with whom he travelled to China with on a research trip, Grung’s design combines Asian design influence with interiors carved out of the raw rock
By Torbjörn Goa Last updated
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Tadao Ando’s He Art Museum draws on local Chinese vernacular
The famed Japanese architect draws on traditional, local architecture in his latest cultural project, the He Art Museum (HEM), which prepares to open its doors in Shunde, Southern China
By Catherine Shaw Last updated
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Concrete mass: welcome to São Paulo’s newest cultural centre
By Sara Sturges Last updated
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Pálás in Galway takes arthouse cinema to the next level
By Giovanna Dunmall Last updated
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Raw Concrete: Barnabas Calder explores the beauty of Brutalism
By Jonathan Bell Last updated
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Cast masters: OMA brings concrete, culture and car parking to Miami’s Faena District
By Marisa Bartolucci Last updated
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Architecture in the words of Paulo Mendes da Rocha
Great modernist Paulo Mendes da Rocha passed away on 23 May 2021 aged 92. Here, we revisit the interview he gave Wallpaper* in 2010 for our Brazil-focussed June issue, talking about architecture, awards and his home country
By Isabel Martinez Abascal Last updated