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Truffle, Costa de Morte
Spain's Ensamble Studio managed to give this shelter a rustic look, by casting the concrete walls around an earth and hay mould. A calf called Paulina ate away the hay inside, to reveal the room.
Spain's Ensamble Studio managed to give this shelter a rustic look, by casting the concrete walls around an earth and hay mould. A calf called Paulina ate away the hay inside, to reveal the room.
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Concrete - a visual gazetteer
This workday building material has been sculpted into some incredible shapes
The Romans cast their temples from it, Le Corbusier delighted in it, and Frank Lloyd Wright described its potential to be a ‘permanent, noble, beautiful’ building material. Concrete is hardly the most romantic of substances, yet its incredible properties have enabled the construction of ancient pagan temples, breathtaking Brazilian galleries and straw-filled Spanish hermitages. In celebration of our new Concrete book, we present some of the boldest buildings ever poured.
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