100 Contemporary Concrete Buildings

100 Contemporary Concrete Buildings

<div id="description_text_headlines" class="margin-bottom"><strong>Concrete heights: The most exciting projects behind the contemporary concrete trend</strong></div> <div class="margin-bottom"> </div> <div class="description_text"> <div id="description_text" class="margin-bottom">Concrete? That characterless stuff of parking lots or Communist tower blocks, right? Well, yes. And no. Concrete is actually a name applied to a remarkably wide range of building substances, and, when properly handled, is <strong>one of the noble materials of contemporary architecture</strong>. A kind of “liquid stone” at the outset, it is malleable, durable, and capable of prodigious feats of engineering.<br /><br />This two-volume book highlights the best work done in concrete of recent years. It includes such stars as <strong>Zaha Hadid, Herzog & de Meuron</strong>, and <strong>Steven Holl</strong>, but also surprising new architects like the Russians <strong>SPEECH</strong>, and rising stars of the international scene like <strong>Rudy Ricciotti </strong>from France, as well as artists such as <strong>James Turrell</strong>, who turned the famous concrete spiral of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Guggenheim in New York into the setting of one of his most remarkable pieces.</div> <div class="margin-bottom"> </div> <div class="margin-bottom">Text in English, French, and German</div> </div>