Concrete

Piers Taylor completes “low-key” rural retreat in Greek countryside

October 24, 2024 Nyima Murry 0

The founder of British practice Invisible Studio, architect Piers Taylor, has created the concrete House in an Olive Grove for his family in Corfu, Greece. Set amid a rural olive grove, the minimalist structure has been designed to accommodate the basic needs of shelter, shade and sleep, while offering flexibility for future modifications. It was

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OFIS Arhitekti converts brutalist printworks in Slovenia into offices

October 19, 2024 Jon Astbury 0

Slovenian studio OFIS Arhitekti has transformed the brutalist structure of a former Ljubljana printing house into a block of offices that “preserves the memory of its former use”. The studio renovated the Mladinska Knjiga Printing House, which was originally designed in 1966 by Slovenian modernist Savin Sever and is considered an important example of post-war

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ETH Zurich explores novel fabrication method for light and reusable concrete staircase

October 14, 2024 Rima Sabina Aouf 0

Material-saving and reversible construction approaches are showcased in the spine-like Cadenza concrete spiral staircase, created by researchers at technology university ETH Zurich working with ROK Architects. The Cadenza staircase is the latest contribution to the NEST building, a laboratory for experimental fabrication techniques that ETH Zurich shares with other research institutes in the Swiss city

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CCA shades Mexican baseball stadium with concrete umbrellas

October 10, 2024 Kate Mazade 0

Mexican design studio Centro de Colaboración Arquitectónica (CCA) has created a series of buildings in Jálpa de Mendez, Mexico, centred around a sports complex and baseball stadium shaded by monumental concrete umbrellas. The design of the stadium and surrounding complex was completed in 2023 to revitalize public life in Jálpa de Mendez and “renew the

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“Gives off a cool Bond villain vibe” says commenter

October 4, 2024 Rheanna Hopkins 0

In this week’s comments update, readers are discussing a submerged concrete and glass house in California, designed by local studio Donaldson + Partners. Seven years in the making, the circular structure features large concrete parabolic arches and was envisioned as a “house for the twenty-first century”. “Those views, yet the house is so introverted” Commenters

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Álvaro Siza steps orange-hued concrete home into sloped site in Barcelona

October 3, 2024 Amy Peacock 0

Portuguese architect Álvaro Siza has completed Colien House, a three-storey concrete home embedded into a hill that overlooks a beach in Barcelona. Made from orange-tinted exposed concrete, Siza designed each floor in the house with an outdoor terrace to extend the internal spaces and provide a connection with the surrounding sloped terrain and nearby sea. “The

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Donaldson + Partners creates arched house “for the twenty-first century”

October 1, 2024 Kate Mazade 0

California-based studio Donaldson + Partners has designed a circular house partially embedded in the landscape with large concrete parabolic arches in Montecito, California. Seven years in the making, the 14,000-square foot (1,300-square metre) house is sunken into a four-acre lot between the Santa Ynez Mountains and the Pacific Ocean, outside Santa Barbara. Robin Donaldson, founder

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Dezeen Debate features a student centre hailed as “eccentrically energetic in and out”

October 1, 2024 Saudatu Bah 0

The latest edition of our Dezeen Debate newsletter features the Student Pavilion at the University of Melbourne by US studio KoningEizenberg. Subscribe to Dezeen Debate now. US studio KoningEizenberg wrapped the Student Pavilion in a series of external concrete stairs and terraces. Readers praised the project, with one calling it “rich, layered, and eccentrically energetic

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Gold aluminium shutters create “defensive” facade for Portuguese housing block

September 29, 2024 Jon Astbury 0

Architecture studio Bureau des Mésarchitecture has completed an apartment block in Leiria, Portugal, wrapped in concrete and gold aluminium shutters. Situated on a corner site where the old and new neighbourhoods of Leiria meet, the block of five apartments is connected to an existing, yellow-painted 20th century house, which was renovated and converted into two

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Gold aluminium shutters create “defensive” facade for Portuguese housing block

September 29, 2024 Jon Astbury 0

Architecture studio Bureau des Mésarchitecture has completed an apartment block in Leiria, Portugal, wrapped in concrete and gold aluminium shutters. Situated on a corner site where the old and new neighbourhoods of Leiria meet, the block of five apartments is connected to an existing, yellow-painted 20th century house, which was renovated and converted into two

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