Concrete was an affordable building material, and the unadorned forms meant a relatively ... as the Central Animal Lab for ...

The city’s planner, the architect Lúcio Costa ... which roofed a slick glass pavilion with a seemingly weightless, free-form concrete slab resembling a lily pad, thus creating a shady overhang ...

In the new Phaidon book “Concrete Architecture,” Los Angeles writers Sam Lubell and Greg Goldin examine a construction material that’s often derided as the building block of urban eyesores ...

The free-form arena shell rests on a soaring structural system of glulam-and-steel trusses and is flanked and supported by concrete shear ... design-build cycle. The architecture and engineer ...

“The irony is, given all its robust structural forms ... it offered visitors free doughnuts — a cheeky reference to the “concrete doughnut” — on World Architecture Day.

The Chicago office of WATG’s Urban Architecture Studio has conceived what it hopes will be the world’s first free-form ... insulation and concrete can be sprayed to form the walls.

The Seattle Aquarium’s Ocean Pavilion has set a new benchmark in aquarium design with its innovative approach to architecture ... the “Supertank,” a free-form concrete marvel that holds ...

Oscar Niemeyer, the architect, who has died aged 104 ... consultation with structural engineers to push the use of free form concrete to its limits. A short, suave-looking man with swept-back ...

Correction: he tainted the future with the allure of concrete ... with form," he declared in 1951. "Form means to express all plastic emotion. Form, expression and style of mind." Architecture ...

The Unfold Form – created by Lotte Scheder-Bieschin, a doctoral architecture student at Switzerland's ETH Zurich – is a reusable framework for molding wet concrete until it hardens into its ...

The creative pair behind Form Concrete Studios were on the eve of ... reputation across Victoria and beyond for producing quality architectural pieces, something they joined forces on in early ...