Built on the site of a former gold mine-turned-sawmill, the Sawmill House references the site’s history with an earth-toned materials palette and rough sawn macrocarpa screens. The operable screens, ...

Concrete is the most widely used building material in the world, but it comes at a huge environmental cost. Engineers in Japan have developed a new technique to make concrete by recycling waste ...

More concrete is manufactured than any other material on the planet. Luckily, the ERO robot has a healthy appetite. Knocking down a concrete building usually takes brute force: Wrecking balls, huge ...

Having been utilized as early as the Roman era in buildings of almost every scale, it is almost impossible to think of a building that does not have at least one concrete element. In fact, it is the ...

Rural inspiration meets modern minimalism in Zürich-based Gus Wüstemann Architects‘ recently completed Pavilion House, a barn-inspired gabled home that takes cues from the agricultural typology in ...

To build a raised garden bed on the concrete slab outside my apartment, I went to Home Depot. I bought lumber and hardware, and my boyfriend screwed it all together. Then I moved. My new place has a ...

It’s a simple concept with a not so simple answer: reduce the weight of concrete without compromising strength. Let’s complicate things one more factor and address environmental issues as well; not ...