Concrete art
Art and design projects that engage with concrete as both material and conceptual framework.
Shell+Core Carve a Brutalist Coffee House and Concept Store from Raw Concrete in Dubai
Koncrete Space on Jumeirah's Dar Al Wasl road merges specialty coffee, curated retail, and a sunken majlis into 215 square meters of raw finishes.
Nomos Architects Wraps a Defunct Xi'an Boiler Station in Polycarbonate to Create an Art Community
A coal-burning heating plant from the 1990s becomes a translucent gallery and retail hub in Xi'an's dense residential core.
Schenker Salvi Weber Builds a Children's Art Laboratory That Grows Out of an Austrian Park
In Saint Pölten, a timber and concrete hybrid rises through the trees of Altoona Park as a new kind of cultural institution for children.
Studio Zhu-Pei Drapes Concrete Tent Roofs Over a Stone Courtyard Art Center in Zibo
Five hyperboloid concrete canopies and rough fieldstone walls form a porous gallery complex on the outskirts of Zibo, Shandong Province.
Karim + Elias Stack 150 Rammed-Earth Spheres into an Open-Air Landscape for Dubai Design
A grand installation of hand-pressed sand and clay spheres transforms a Dubai plaza into an earthen terrain at Downtown Design 2022.
Bufen Atelier Carves a Marble Monolith into a Sidewalk Kiosk on a Beijing Avenue
A 16-square-meter triangular volume of three marbles and hammered copper hovers above a tree-lined plaza in Beijing.
Concrete Shell Pavilion by UA Lab: A Sculptural Community Space in Ahmedabad
A minimalist concrete pavilion offering open, interconnected community spaces with circular columns, natural materials, and calming contrasts within a residential development.
Castle of Art: Medieval Urbanism Rebuilt as a Creative Micro-City
A fortified ring structure shelters modular artisan dwellings, translating the spatial logic of medieval towns into a sustainable creative community.
Polyhedra Sculpture: Algorithmic Geometry Cast in Plaster and Wood
Lars Renklint turns parametric subdivision logic into tactile sculptures, bridging cloud-based computation with physical casting and 3D printing.
Cloud: Triangulated Urban Furniture That Invites Spontaneous Gathering
Steel pipes and woven nylon wires form floating modular canopies that activate forgotten pockets of public space across the city.
Precise Imprecision: Where Robotic Arms Meet Fabric Molds
A hybrid fabrication method using KUKA robots and stack-cast fabric formwork to challenge what precision means in architecture.
Network Installation: Fishing Nets Become Kinetic Urban Canopies
Colorful tensile mesh suspended between trees and over plazas transforms ordinary public space into immersive, body-scale parametric sculpture.
