Architect Jorge Fortan cements his case for a concrete and foam sandwich house. This TreeHugger has never been fond of concrete, preferring straw and sticks as building materials for houses, but then ...

You probably wouldn’t expect beauty from a structure that came out of something called the Brutalist movement. So named because of its functional, rugged, concrete-heavy designs, the architectural ...

The timber formwork gives texture to the exposed concrete, and the exposed concrete gives patina to the timber formwork. The formwork panels shape the exposed concrete spaces and use, and the other ...

Program: The clients wanted the house—which is situated on a ravine near the city center—to have a strong connection between indoor and outdoor spaces, and to encompass a modernist sensibility, with ...

Students from Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri designed this beautiful solar-powered home completely out of prefabricated concrete. Built to showcase the viability of building with ...

As the construction industry moves toward greener solutions, the push for sustainable, energy-efficient buildings grows. Global energy consumption for buildings accounts for nearly 40% of total energy ...

Rooms are organised around a swimming pool in this pigmented concrete house, designed by architecture studio Pezo von Ellrichshausen on farmland in central Chile. Pezo von Ellrichshausen, the studio ...

What was meant to be a modern concrete house has, over the last five years, turned into what neighbors call a concrete eyesore. Thousands of drivers a day pass the hollow, unfinished carcass of the ...

HUNT — The recently built house just down the road from the Hill Country Arts Foundation — and its faux Stonehenge — is a looker. With shed roofs angling away from one another and separated by ...