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Editorial
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Concrete Design Competition
The White City of Tel Aviv
Exhibition in Vienna
creative concrete heads: Holger C. Heilmann
Artic Noah's Ark
Book: Concrete creations
Concrete Poet
Oscar Niemeyer on his 100th birthday
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Keeping the memory awake
Documentation centre at the Bergen-Belsen Memorial Site, Germany
Fortress for wine
Bodega Martin Berdugo Winery in Aranda de Duero, Spain
God's lawn
Community centre with white precast façade in Mannheim, Germany
"Arrived"
Carport made high strength concrete in Austria
Glacier tongues
Futuristic stations of the Hungerburg railway in Innsbruck, Austria
Marks in the concrete
Red fair-faced concrete for the Waldorf School in Augsburg, Germany
A guest house on Mars
The ESO Hotel in Cerro Paranal, Chile
Roman déjà-vu
Antique wall made of new concrete
Wrapped in concrete
Structured façades for a college sports hall in France
African Pot
Glass fibre reinforced concrete façade for soccer Stadium in South Africa
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Arabian desert flower
World record climbing formwork for the Burj Dubai
Gigantic concreting event
Steel fibre-reinforced concrete for the world's longest concrete slab
Detailed Solution
Lightweight concrete cantilever slabs in spectacular car park
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Fairfaced, Exposed, Architectural ...
Visible concrete surfaces in façades – idea, requirements, implementations
Surfaces – Life for concrete
Basics on concrete surfaces: Surface structures
History and development of concrete
From a low-tech to a high-tech material – part 1:
Concrete constructions from antiquity to the present day
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Glass Cube
Exhibition pavilion with an organic network of paths
Pure aesthetics
Fair-faced concrete with strong character
Mind the gap
Artificial crack in the concrete floor of the Tate Modern
Betografie
Concrete pictures using the principles of the Terrazzo technique
Concrete curtain

"Concrete textile" as a flexible windbreak, sight screen and sunshade
As light and as delicate as ceramic
Concrete bowls made of Creacrete
When the sun shines through the walls
New translucent concrete
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