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Concrete in Architecture Works brings together ArchEyes projects where concrete defines the structure, the surface or both. Cast in place, precast or left rough from the formwork, the material allows mass, span and sculptural form within a single system. The collection moves from Álvaro Siza’s Leça Swimming Pools and Peter Zumthor’s Bruder Klaus Field Chapel to SANAA’s Rolex Learning Center and contemporary houses by TETRO in Brazil, showing concrete as both engineering and atmosphere.
Konkuri-an is a 12.46-square-meter reinforced-concrete teahouse in a narrow Kamakura valley. Designed by Teitakusubako + YIA, it recasts the spatial discipline of the Japanese Soan teahouse through exposed concrete, reinforcing…
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Atelier Peter Zumthor’s expansion of the Fondation Beyeler in Riehen distributes museum galleries, public events, and art logistics across three buildings set within a restored nineteenth-century landscape garden. The intervention…
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Arte Abierto Baja is an open-air gallery in Los Cabos, Mexico, embedded four meters below grade to establish a protected yet sky-facing setting for large-scale contemporary art. Defined by a…
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Berkut Baroneza House is a 693 m2 residence in Bragança Paulista, São Paulo, organized as a low concrete frame across a sloping site. Designed by Yuri Vital, the house combines…
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Casa Adentro is a 1,370-square-meter residence in Lagoa Santa, Minas Gerais, organized around the spaces left between mature trees. Designed by TETRO, the house uses courtyards, elevated volumes, and a…
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La Vigilia Winery is a 1,700-square-meter production and hospitality building in Los Chacayes, Mendoza, where a sequence of dark concrete volumes mediates between the ordered geometry of vineyards and the…
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CCE House by ONA – Oficina Nomada de Arquitectura is a 170 m2 single-level residence in Chacras de Coria, Mendoza, organized as an introverted L-shaped plan behind a continuous board-formed…
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Guanajuato 194 by Bloqe Arquitectura is a multifamily housing project in Roma Norte, Mexico City, that transforms a former parking lot on a narrow, deep parcel into a sequence of…
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Heiligkreuzkirche Chur, designed by Walter Maria Förderer with Rolf G. Otto and Hans Zwimpfer, is a postwar Catholic parish center in northern Chur where church, community rooms, residence, hall, and…
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The Moon2 Spa complex is a 260 m2 wellness interior embedded at the base of a mountain hotel in Arkhyz, Russia, where board-formed concrete, thermal water, snow, and panoramic glazing…
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Taibai Wushanju Art Hotel by IAPA DESIGN is a 14,500 m2 resort and cultural complex at the foot of Taibai Mountain in Shaanxi, China, where hotel rooms, courtyards, tea rooms…
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The Auditorium and Music and Dance School Jean-Claude Casadesus in Leers, France, designed by ateliers O-S architectes, combines a 150-seat auditorium, rehearsal spaces, teaching rooms, shared facilities, and an upper-level…
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Yangshuo Sugarhouse Hotel by Vector Architects converts a disused 1960s sugar mill in Guangxi into a hotel complex in which preserved industrial structures, new guest accommodation, water courts, and framed…
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Panoši Újezd Summer House by Lenka Milerová architektka converts a former pigsty in the Czech countryside into a compact seasonal dwelling, retaining its stone rural shell while introducing concrete, steel…
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