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5 | 2008


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Editorial
Concrete chameleon
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On the edge of the possible
Award-winning architect Jørn Utzon dies at 90
Audacious and visionary thinker
Friedrich Kiesler Award 2008 for Toyo Ito
DekoVision
Scaffolding for the world's largest curtain
Concrete energy accumulator
creative concrete heads: Andreas Bittis
opus C quiz
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Camouflage
Giardin residential estate in coloured rammed concrete in Samedan
The Vizor of Var
The cantilever UHPC roof of La Villa Navarra in Le Muy
Nouvelle Vague
Textured concrete precast elements in Montpellier
Open all day
Extension to a catholic primary school in Cologne
Beautiful as Nefertiti
Architectural concrete precast elements for the New Museum in Berlin
Cocodrillo with laurel
University sports hall with a textured façade in St. Gallen
Mary on the 'Buchholz'
Cloak chapel made of white concrete precast elements
New spatiality through form and material
Architectural concrete in the building façade
Every floor a unicum
Designed cement screeds and concrete floors
Jointless aesthetics
Design floors in new Würth art museum in Alsace
Mirror concrete
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Opera Tower
Concrete and formwork techniques for a high-rise building in Frankfurt
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Fair-faced concrete – safe planning and implementation
Information and measures for creation according to plan
Glass fibre reinforcement in industrial floors
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Jail art
Three sculptures for the new prison in Landshut
Flying carpet
Design installation made of GFRC in Vienna
Façade material
New developments in translucent concrete
Short-lived art
Delicate high-pressure drawing on Japanese dam
Light in the night
NighTec pavers with a concrete aggregate of luminous crystals
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