Concrete

Architecture studio DF_DC has designed a concrete apartment block overlooking Lake Lugano in the south of Switzerland that has a concrete exoskeleton so that the interior spaces are “free to change over time”. Named after its street, Via Carona 6 contains 14 private-rental apartments that are shielded from the road by a concrete wall that was informed

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British practice David Chipperfield Architects has realised 11-19 Jane Street, an apartment building in New York with a ruddy-hued facade of brick and coloured concrete. The new six-storey building, which replaces a parking garage that dated from the 1920s, is located in the city’s Greenwich Village neighbourhood. To complement the mix of 19th and 20th-century

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Apollo Architects & Associates has designed a family home with a walled-in garden that houses two generations under one roof and aims to blend indoor and outdoor living. Tokyo-based architecture studio Apollo Architects & Associates replaced an existing home in Japan’s Kanto region with a two-storey building designed to emphasise the connection between the interior

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Portuguese architecture studio Trama Arquitetos has created Cork Trees House, a concrete and Corten-steel clad home located on a slope above a grove of cork trees in Braga, Portugal. The single-level house was built on a plot of land set above the centuries-old trees and Trama Arquitetos aimed for its design to connect with this

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Casa Bell-Lloc by architecture office Studio Saxe is a concrete house featuring expansive coastal views and a swimming pool that reaches toward the sea. Casa Bell-Lloc is located in Santa Teresa, a small town in Costa Rica’s Puntarenas Province that is known for its pristine beaches and great surfing. The full-time residence is tucked into

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Em-Estudio has built a holiday home on a steep hillside in Oaxaca, Mexico, from coloured concrete chosen to blend into the rocky mountainside. Named La Extraviada, the house overlooks Mermejita beach in Mazunte, a small seaside town on southern Mexico’s Pacific coast. Mexico City-based architecture firm Em-Estudio used polished cement mixed with brown pigments for La

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Portuguese architect Hugo Pereira has completed an angular concrete house in the town of Celorico de Basto, Portugal with glass-walled living spaces that look out onto courtyard gardens and a swimming pool. Located on a 12,000-square-metre plot in the Braga district, the house was designed by Pereira’s studio to make the most of the views

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