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fromdesignboom | architecture & design magazine
1 day ago

brutalist berlin: a concrete chronicle of the german city's postwar identity

Brutalist Berlin, published by Blue Crow Media, is an architectural guidebook devoted to the raw materiality and social ambition of Berlin's postwar concrete structures. Written and photographed by architectural historian Dr. Felix Torkar, the volume documents more than fifty sites across the city - from housing estates and cultural institutions to infrastructural landmarks - and situates them within the political and cultural framework of Germany's Cold War reconstruction.
Books
Remodel
fromwww.archdaily.com
3 weeks ago

House F / celoria Architects

A single-family concrete monolith integrates with Mendrisio's steep Tremona terrain, emerging from and blending into the natural soil morphology.
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Film
fromFast Company
2 months ago

A dazzling new film shows the devastating reality of building with concrete

Architecton reveals the brutal industrial process of concrete production and critiques modern architecture's aesthetic shortcomings.
fromTheregister
3 months ago

Meta AI concocted low-carbon concrete used in new datacenter

"Designing concrete formulas is a complex, multi-objective problem. The designer must choose between various types and proportions of cement, lower-carbon supplementary cementitious materials (SCMs), water-to-binder ratios, coarse and fine aggregate types, and admixtures."
Environment
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NYC startup
fromTechCrunch
5 months ago

Exclusive: PHNX Materials found a way to decarbonize concrete using dirty coal waste | TechCrunch

Fly ash from coal plants can significantly reduce the carbon footprint of concrete by replacing cement.
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