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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Docomomo US announces the winners of this year's Modernism in America Awards. Each project showcases exemplary modern restoration techniques, practices, and ideas.
Today, we kicked off this year’s annual Dwell on Design at the LA Convention Center, which will continue through Sunday, June 26th. Though we’ve been hosting this extensive event for years, this time around is particularly special.
By straightening angles, installing windows, and adding vertical accents, architect Aaron Ritenour brought light and order to an irregularly shaped apartment in the heart of Athens, Greece.
From the bones of a neglected farmstead in rural Scotland emerges a low-impact, solar-powered home that’s all about working with what was already there.
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