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7 Ingenious Concrete Buildings
July 9, 2015
These beauties are a great reminder why architects love the hard stuff. Employed in everything from towering skyscrapers to underground lairs, concrete is the material of choice for eccentric modernists—click through for a few highlights.
A square hole in the ground and a concrete slab are all that demarcate Byoung Cho’s Earth House from the surrounding countryside.
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Originally appeared in Underground House in Seoul
The mother of all Brutalist concrete structures, architect Moshe Safdie's iconic Habitat '67 building.
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Originally appeared in A Renovated Flat in Moshe Safdie's Habitat '67
Completed in 2010, the Aqua Tower in Chicago by Studio Gang Architects is still worth admiring. The innovative skyscraper, which is 82 stories tall, features an undulating shape designed to capture views of Chicago landmarks.
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Originally appeared in Architecture Inspiration of the Day: Aqua Tower in Chicago
L.A. has a new talk of the town: The Broad, the new concrete, steel, and glass art museum under construction in downtown Los Angeles, is nestled between the Walt Disney Concert Hall and MOCA. The building is slated to open on September 20.
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Originally appeared in This New Building Will Change the Face of Downtown L.A.
The perforated concrete panels on the façade of Casa Delpin in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
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Originally appeared in San Juan, PR
It took a few tweaks for residents Lisa Sette and Peter Shikany and to transform Marwan Al-Sayed’s poetic House of Earth + Light into a temperate place to live, but the house retains its dramatic silhouette.
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Originally appeared in Love's Labors Found
In Tokyo, Japan, where the houses are crammed cheek by jowl, two old friends from architecture school have created a 793-square-foot home out of canted concrete boxes.
Originally appeared in Japan Style: 7 Creative Living Spaces in Tokyo
A square hole in the ground and a concrete slab are all that demarcate Byoung Cho’s Earth House from the surrounding countryside.
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