Casa Murray by Diseño Espacial — Terrace and Courtyard View casa-murray-diseno-espacial-terrace-courtyard Interior terrace view of Casa Murray in Mexico City, designed by Diseño Espacial. Floor-to-ceiling steel-grid glazing opens onto a planted inner courtyard; photography by Ana Eunice Ortiz Pamanes.
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S.A. Residence by SHATOTTO sa-residence-shatotto The S.A. Residence in Dhaka, Bangladesh, designed by SHATOTTO (principal architect Rafiq Azam) and completed in 2011. A concrete house organised around water courtyards, widely published in ArchDaily and Archilovers.
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FlatPak House by Charles Lazor / Lazor Office flatpak-house-charles-lazor-lazor-office The FlatPak House by Charles Lazor and Lazor Office, Minneapolis — a modernist prefab component-system residence first published in 2005.
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Casa dos Cubos — EMBAIXADA arquitectura, Tomar casa-dos-cubos-embaixada-arquitectura-tomar Casa dos Cubos (2007) is an architectural reconversion of a 12th-century grain storehouse in Tomar, Portugal by EMBAIXADA arquitectura, converting the medieval masonry shell into cultural and residential use through bold concrete insertions.
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House S by Keiji Ashizawa Design house-s-keiji-ashizawa-design House S is a single-family residence in central Tokyo by Keiji Ashizawa Design, completed 2012. The project features a chalkboard-textured concrete facade flanked by bamboo in a quiet residential cul-de-sac.
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Concrete Brutalist Sculpture — Stepped Block Form concrete-brutalist-sculpture-stepped-block-form Overhead photograph of a pale concrete stepped-block sculpture or architectural maquette placed on wet asphalt. The modular geometric form references mid-century brutalist architecture.
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Foster + Partners: Spaceport America Terminal foster-partners-spaceport-america-terminal Aerial view of the Spaceport America Gateway to Space terminal building in Sierra County, New Mexico, designed by Foster + Partners. The earth-sheltered elliptical structure rises from the Chihuahuan Desert hardstand, photographed at the October 2011 dedication ceremony.
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Pinakothek der Moderne — Interior Rotunda, Munich pinakothek-der-moderne-interior-munich Architectural interior photograph of the Pinakothek der Moderne in Munich, designed by Stephan Braunfels and opened in 2002. White concrete walls, columns, and a glass-railing mezzanine balcony frame the central rotunda space.
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Garden and Sea — Takao Shiotsuka Atelier garden-and-sea-takao-shiotsuka-atelier Garden and Sea (2008) is a 237 m² residential house in Japan by Takao Shiotsuka Atelier, set on a sloped coastal site with concrete and glass construction.
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Preston Bus Station — Brutalist Undercroft preston-bus-station-brutalist-undercroft The covered walkway beneath Preston Bus Station, designed by Keith Ingham and Charles Wilson of Building Design Partnership (BDP) and completed in 1969. One of the largest bus stations in Europe and a landmark of British Brutalism, Grade II* listed.
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Pedregulho Housing Complex by Affonso Reidy and Carmen Portinho
Pedregulho Housing Complex by Affonso Reidy and Carmen Portinho pedregulho-housing-complex-reidy-portinho Exterior detail of the Pedregulho Housing Complex (Conjunto Residencial Prefeito Mendes de Moraes) in Rio de Janeiro, designed by Affonso Eduardo Reidy with engineer Carmen Portinho. Built 1948–1960, the serpentine concrete social-housing block is a landmark of Brazilian modernism.
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Saint-Joseph Church, Le Havre, by Auguste Perret saint-joseph-church-le-havre-auguste-perret Interior of the Église Saint-Joseph, Le Havre, designed by Auguste Perret (1951–1957). The 107-metre concrete tower is filled with Marguerite Huré's abstract stained glass in fifty hues.
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Batterie Le Chaos, German 152mm Naval Gun Casemate at Longues-sur-Mer
Batterie Le Chaos, German 152mm Naval Gun Casemate at Longues-sur-Mer batterie-le-chaos-german-naval-gun-casemate-longues-sur-mer Interior view of a WWII German Atlantic Wall gun casemate at Batterie Le Chaos, Longues-sur-Mer, Normandy. One of four surviving 152mm naval guns (TK C/36 Torpedobootkanone) housed in reinforced concrete casemates between Omaha and Gold beaches.
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Gore Design Co. Erosion Sink, White Concrete Topographic
Gore Design Co. Erosion Sink, White Concrete Topographic gore-design-co-erosion-sink-white-concrete-topographic A white concrete Erosion Sink by Brandon Gore / Gore Design Co., installed in a dark stone niche with a wall-mounted tap. The flat rectangular trough features finely etched topographic contour lines radiating from the drain — a distinct variant from the deeply carved canyon-basin Erosion Sink.
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Gore Design Co. Erosion Sink, Concrete Basin by Brandon Gore
Gore Design Co. Erosion Sink, Concrete Basin by Brandon Gore gore-design-co-erosion-sink-concrete-brandon-gore The Erosion Sink is a signature concrete basin design by Brandon Gore of Gore Design Co., first produced in 2004 and featured in Dwell magazine. Each piece is hand-finished, with a topographic contour-line basin carved into a rectangular concrete slab.
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Paul Virilio, Bunker Archeology paul-virilio-bunker-archeology A photograph from Paul Virilio's Bunker Archéologie (1975) — the French theorist and architect's photographic study of Nazi Atlantic Wall bunkers along the French coast. Shot between 1958 and 1965, the project documents the abandoned concrete fortifications as monolithic found objects.
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Linienstrasse 40, Bundschuh Architekten, Berlin-Mitte linienstrasse-40-bundschuh-architekten-berlin Linienstrasse 40 (L40) is a residential and commercial building completed in 2010 at the corner of Linienstrasse and Rosa-Luxemburg-Strasse in Berlin-Mitte. Designed by Roger Bundschuh and artist Cosima von Bonin, its monolithic black exposed-concrete form and cantilevered volumes make it one of Berlin's most distinctive contemporary buildings.
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