Architecture

Structural change – residence in the Swiss Alps by Clavienrossier Architekten

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The vine as a leitmotiv

The motif of a vine, inlaid in prefabricated concrete building parts and perforated metal panels is growing across the entire shell of a building at a winery in Hungary.

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The Waterhouse in Shanghai

The Waterhouse is an exclusive 5-star hotel on the outskirts of the megacity of Shanghai. On the basis of an old Japanese army's headquarters, the architects of Neri & Hu developed this luxury boutique hotel.

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Slab-format thin concrete

With "fibreC" the Austrian family-run company Rieder has launched a new concrete panel in an easy-to-handle slat format.

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A house with one room

If you look up the term single-room house in the specialist literature, you will find a simple sentence explaining this type of dwelling: the single room is the simplest way to divide up a groundplan, as it entails a house with no inside walls or separate rooms.

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Heart in Detail

The Herning Museum of Contemporary Art in Denmark, known in short as the "heart", is more than just a showplace for contemporary art. As a center of the cultures it unites exhibition rooms with nothing less than a concert hall, a library, an open-air stage and a café.

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Modernism’s Ugly Duckling

by Nora Sobich

The Boston City Hall is one of the most controversial examples of American Brutalism. Once celebrated as avant-garde, today it gets greeted only with scorn - and is gradually falling apart.

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New concretes for Architecture and Design

by Juergen Glaesle

Concrete is by no means simply gray and monotonous. Recent years have seen the development of numerous new concretes that reveal the various uses to which it can be put.

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Of great buildings and green values

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Curved surfaces and oblique lines

Designing the new Vodafone building in Oporto, Portugal, the architects José António Barbosa and Pedro Guimarães of Barbosa Guimarães Arquitectos wished to reflect Vodafone's credo "Vodafone Life, Life in Motion".

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Pictures on Concrete Surfaces

Thanks to the "GraphicConcrete" technology, patterns, images and texts can be durably applied to concrete surfaces.

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Material in the interplay

"Haus KA", designed by lynx architecture, is a clear cube that consist of only a very few different materials.

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Staying at the Viura

Named after the most widely planted white grape variety in Rioja, Viura is a new, contemporary hotel with 26 guestrooms and seven suites, two bars and a restaurant.

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Translucent, folded and perforated

Architects Diane Heirend & Philippe Schmit's expansion of the Luxembourg art gallery in the Villa Vauban adds a metal-clad annex.

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A crystal made of glass and concrete

One Colemean Street, the project by English design office David Walker Architects, is located in the heart of London's banking district. The commercial building offers structurally interesting solutions and is a visual eye-catcher.

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Concrete – so much more than the gray friend in the background

The new Material Edition will showcase many other types of concrete including, for example, glass-foam concrete, translucent concrete, colored and recycled concrete. Be inspired by the sheer wealth of possible uses!

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The hidden beauty of the sewer rat

by Nora Sobich

Concrete is the epitome of the Neues Bauen movement and linked inseparably to Modernism. Yet despite the multifarious opportunities for use it still has a hard time being perceived in terms of its aesthetic qualities as well.

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