100 Contemporary Concrete Buildings

Concrete heights: The most exciting projects behind the contemporary concrete trend 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 one of the noble materials of contemporary architecture. A kind of liquid stone at the outset it is malleable durable and capable of prodigious feats of engineering. This two-volume book highlights the best work done in concrete of recent years. It includes such stars as Zaha Hadid Herzog & de Meuron and Steven Holl but also surprising new architects like the Russians SPEECH and rising stars of the international scene like Rudy Ricciotti from France as well as artists such as James Turrell who turned the famous concrete spiral of Frank Lloyd Wrights Guggenheim in New York into the setting of one of his most remarkable pieces. Text in English French and German 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 one of the noble materials of contemporary architecture. A kind of liquid stone at the outset it is malleable durable and capable of prodigious feats of engineering. This two-volume book highlights the best work done in concrete of recent years. It includes such stars as Zaha Hadid Herzog & de Meuron and Steven Holl but also surprising new architects like the Russians SPEECH and rising stars of the international scene like Rudy Ricciotti from France as well as artists such as James Turrell who turned the famous concrete spiral of Frank Lloyd Wrights Guggenheim in New York into the setting of one of his most remarkable pieces.