World’s First Hollow-Body Concrete Guitar Weighs 20 Pounds and Plays Like a Dream
Rob Scallon and Mike from Morley Maker just built a hollow-body concrete guitar that actually works, and I’m sitting here wondering what other materials can…
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Meet The Concrete Mountain Escape Where Art & Living Flow Together
In the rural hills of Zabbougha, Mount Lebanon, sits a house that feels more like a piece of sculpture than a home. East Architecture Studio’s…
Twin Houses With One Pillar Offer Innovative Multigenerational Living & Contemporary Design
Two conjoined homes quietly anchor their plot in Söcking, near Lake Starnberg, standing as an inventive response to suburban densification. Houses with One Pillar, designed…
Innovative Origami-Inspired Formwork Reduces Concrete & Steel in Vaulted Floors
The strength and structural integrity of concrete are derived from its inherent material properties, and also from the way it is shaped during construction. An…
Modern Concrete Design: 8 Innovations Changing Home and Office Products
Concrete, once confined to construction sites and infrastructure projects, has emerged as a revolutionary force in contemporary product design. This versatile material now extends far…
Nature Meets Concrete: How AI is Reshaping Urban Landscapes in 2024
Concrete doesn’t usually conjure up thoughts of artistry or adaptability—it’s solid, gray, and static. But Amorphous Concrete flips that notion on its head, proving that…
Concrete house lets you live in the middle of the forest
Having lived in a city all my life, I’m used to waking up in the morning, looking out the window, and seeing nothing but buildings….
Concrete made from food waste can be edible
When I hear the word “edible concrete”, the visual that comes to my mind is straight out of a horror or dystopian story: people gnawing…
LEGO-like concrete blocks made from waste are easy to assemble and disassemble
The more buildings we put up to address the growing needs of our civilization, the more materials and energy are consumed along with a rise…
This concrete floating home in Ho Chi Minh City is designed to mitigate the effects of flooding
Architecture studio SDA designed a concrete-frame home called the Floating House. Perched on the outskirts of Ho Chi Minh City, the Floating House has been…
This 3D printed sculptural concrete bench is designed to enhance the Southampton Skate Park
Rich Holland has designed multiple skateparks around the world, and he’s now busy working on an inclusive new park in Southampton. The new park…
This concrete holiday home in the Korean mountains resembles a stoic stone fortress
Located outside the South Korean city of Chuncheon-Si, tucked away in a valley beneath the imposing mountains is a modern mountain house called Uirim Inn….