Concrete

World’s tallest modular tower is now Clement Canopy in Singapore

July 2, 2019 India Block 0
Construction company Bouygues Bâtiment International has built Clement Canopy, a pair of 140-metre-high made from prefabricated concrete modules.

Construction company Bouygues Bâtiment International has built Clement Canopy, a pair of 140-metre-high towers made of prefabricated concrete modules. Bouygues Bâtiment International claims the development in Singapore has set a new record for the tallest modular tower. Previously the title had been held by George Street, a 135-metre tower built in Croydon, England, by Tide

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S-AR builds tiny concrete chapel La Providencia in Mexico

July 2, 2019 Bridget Cogley 0
La Providencia by S-AR

A steeply pitched roof tops this small concrete and wood chapel that Mexican architecture firm S-AR has built in Monterrey. S-AR built the 7.8-square-metre chapel to accompany an existing church called San Rafael Arcangel, which is located on the outskirts of Cerro del Topo Chic in the north of the Mexican city. Called La Providencia,

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Traditional Islamic architecture informs ornamental concrete vaulting in Punchbowl Mosque

June 26, 2019 Semi Han 0
Punchbowl Mosque by Candalepas Associates

Local architecture studio Candalepas Associates has completed a mosque with a decorative concrete-vaulted roof in Sydney, Australia. Located in the suburb of Punchbowl, the religious building provides space for 300 men and women worshippers to congregate. It distinguishes a central worship space with a concrete honeycomb structure, which takes visual cues from the aesthetics of

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MORQ’s rammed-concrete Cloister House hides lush internal courtyard

June 24, 2019 Jon Astbury 0
Cloister House by MORG

Architecture studio MORQ has built an almost windowless house surrounding a plant-filled courtyard from rammed concrete in Perth, Australia. Italy and Australia-based architects MORQ designed Cloister House for a couple who wanted a home that would feel like a sheltered place of refuge. Cloister House sits on a plot next to a busy road on a

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CCA builds concrete Mexican business school EBC Aguascalientes around lush gardens

June 22, 2019 James Brillon 0
Escuela Bancaria y Comercial (EBC) school in Aguascalientes, Mexico by Ignacio Urquiza Arquitectos

Mexican design studio Centro de Colaboración Arquitectónica and architects Rodrigo Valenzuela Jerez and Camilo Moreno have completed this concrete business school on a lush site near Mexican city Aguascalientes. The campus marks the latest outpost of Mexican business school Escuela Bancaria y Comercial (EBC). The institution, whose name translates as Banking and Commercial school, was established

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BBGK explores potential of prefabrication with red concrete housing block in Poland

June 20, 2019 Tomek Zylski 0
Sprzeczna 4 prefabricated housing by BBGK in Warsaw, Poland

The Sprzeczna 4 apartment building in Warsaw, designed by local practice BBGK, is one of the first major prefabricated residential blocks built in Poland since the communist era. Warsaw-based practice BBGK designed Sprzeczna 4 for Budizol – a developer, constructor and producer of reinforced concrete prefabricated elements, which wanted to show the potential for building modular housing using precast concrete.

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J_Spy uses concrete blocks to form Catskills House in the New York countryside

June 18, 2019 Jenna McKnight 0
Catskill House in New York State by JSPY Architecture

The husband-and-wife team behind American firm J_Spy have created a retreat for their family in Upstate New York that features a compact interior and basic materials like concrete masonry and standing-seam metal. Envisioned as a weekend gateway for the urban family, the Catskills House is located in Sullivan County, an area known for its rolling

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Oliver du Puy Architects creates 4.2-metre-wide Skinny House in Melbourne

June 11, 2019 Jon Astbury 0
An exposed concrete frame supports this 4.2-metre-wide skinny house in Melbourne designed by Oliver du Puy Architects to feature meditation spaces.

An exposed concrete frame supports this 4.2-metre-wide skinny house in Melbourne designed by Oliver du Puy Architects to feature meditation spaces. Aptly named Skinny House, the project carves out a quiet, contemplative space on the site of a neglected yard of a 19th-century shop. Oliver du Puy Architects, which is based in Melbourne, built it

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