With construction costs and safety concerns climbing, many are revisiting a trusted material with renewed relevance: concrete ...

Every generation witnesses its own advances in building technology. Balloon-frame construction was a major advance over the previous method of post-and-beam construction, whereby skilled carpenters ...

More Than Gray: 15 Projects That Explore Red Pigmented Concrete A Trombe wall is a passive solar building feature that enhances thermal efficiency. Positioned on the sun-facing side of a structure, it ...

Concrete is a huge contributor to worldwide CO2 emissions, and Concrete Masonry Units (aka cinder blocks or breeze blocks) make up a significant part of this. However, a new project by Skidmore, ...

As pedestrians head down Halsted Street in the Fulton Market district, a spiral structure in the middle of the Mews Pedway invites them to walk toward its center. At a glance, the coil seems to have ...

Cement has been used for thousands of years, but making the modern-day version generates huge amounts of greenhouse-gas emissions, further jeopardizing global climate goals. Now, innovators are racing ...