Concrete Elegance Three

The Concrete Centre

May 2007
Code: 58499
ISBN: 9781859462805
Paperback
£7.50

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Concrete Elegance is a showcase for innovative and creative concrete architecture, exemplified by the many exciting and diverse projects and products that are presented by architects and designers at The Building Centre.

This publication is the third in the series and considers both pigmented and natural concrete colours, and how concrete can be detailed to accommodate the variations in colour or left untreated with the marks of construction visible. The quality of the architecture has never been in doubt, as shown by the examples in this edition – the black concrete of the Utrecht Library, the grass-imprinted precast panels of the A16 Toll Booths in France, the pink glass reinforced concrete (GRC) panels of Villaverde in Madrid and the plain grey concrete in the Bacon Street House. Yet, somehow, the interpretation and end results of using tried and tested concrete mixes and commonly used forming materials still offer almost limitless design freedom and scope for expression.

The landscape, hardscape, parkland and playground projects and domestic artefacts reviewed in this edition also help to broaden our understanding of concrete’s potential and universal appeal.