Teshima Art Museum, Japan
Though it bills itself as a museum, this sixty-metre long droplet-shaped shelter has no exhibits, and is meant to be a space for simply contemplating the elements.


Concrete - a visual gazetteer

This workday building material has been sculpted into some incredible shapes

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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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