As we learned last week, concrete began as a structural component of architecture. A mixture of cement, aggregate and water, concrete has been used as a building material for over a millennia. It was ...

Concrete is a ubiquitous, often unremarkable, building material but in the right hands, it can be sculpted into truly special architectural works. Join us as we celebrate some of the best recent uses ...

In the new Phaidon book "Concrete Architecture," Los Angeles writers Sam Lubell and Greg Goldin examine a construction material that's often derided as the building block of urban eyesores, but, they ...

As most New Yorkers know, the five boroughs are filled with impressive architecture, but few have paid particular attention to the material used to create it. A new map from Blue Crow Media reminds ...

Yale University's Art and Architecture Building, designed by Paul Rudolph and completed in 1963, is a prime example of Brutalist architecture. Courtesy of Lauren Manning/Flickr Roman Mars’ podcast 99% ...

If you visit Taiwan, you’ll find that most of the architecture is built using cement. Then in 2006 the founder of Taiwan-based 22 Design Studio saw Japan’s exquisite, cast-in-place concrete ...

In New York City, many top architects have found inspiration for luxury in a rather humble material: concrete. Several projects popping up on the island have made cement the focus of their façades. It ...

A first look at the prefab architecture designs of from Kanye West’s YEEZY Home; this look seems totally aligned with the principles of “affordable housing ...

Editor’s Note: Jonathan Glancey is a British architecture critic and author. On January 1, 1967, Yugoslavia embraced the world. It was from this date that foreign visitors could enter the non-aligned ...

Concrete in architecture is an architecture competition organized by archiol in association with artuminate. Concrete is an important material in the field of architecture and construction. What is ...

Rear entrance of a residential building in Sofia, Bulgaria, 2009 (photo: Alphaadversativum, via Wikimedia Commons) A few months ago, news broke in Russia that the government planned to raze almost ...