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- Corallite: Lighting and Furniture Made from Recycled Foam ConcreteThe Mumbai-based design studio Sanjay Puri Architects has developed Corallite, a series of lighting and furniture objects informed by the natural geometry and texture…
- A cabin made from beetle infested wood and concrete 3D printingLeslie Lok and Sasa Zivkovic, both assistant professors of architecture at Cornell University in the US and co-principals of design firm HANNAH, designed a…
- Dropping concrete blocks to generate energyAmsterdam Drops, a project by Sinds 1416 and Studio Floris Schoonderbeek, aims to help solve Amsterdam’s energy problem by generating and storing energy by…
- Experimenta 21 concrete tower with irregular aperturesExperimenta 21, a new addition to the university campus of Universidad Siglo 21 in Córdoba (AR), is a concrete tower by Morini Arquitectos, made…
- Indigo Slam: a sustainable concrete sculpture to live inIs it house or is it art? Why not both? Smart Design Studio designed a house as a sculpture, called Indigo Slam, for an…
- New sustainable brick is twice as strong as concrete!A new masonry building material developed by California-based startup Watershed Materials is twice as strong as concrete, offers a low carbon footprint and is…
- Ecologically Engineered Concrete Habitat Units Enhance Marine Biodiversity at New Zealand PortLyttelton Port Company (LPC) introduced ecological design principles into its coastal infrastructure through specially engineered concrete habitat units. The project shows how maritime structures…
- Carbon-Negative Building Material Offers Alternative to ConcreteResearchers at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) have developed a carbon-negative building material that could change how we construct buildings. The innovation, published in the…
- Material Experiments in Concrete, Steel and Glass: pulpo’s New Collections for 2026At Maison&Objet 2026, German design company pulpo introduces two material-focused developments: the Industrial Art collection and the Alwa Square series. Both lines show how…
- 3D Printed Polymer Composites Reshape Concrete ConstructionOak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), in partnership with Kairos Power and Barnard Construction, is applying large-scale 3D printing to build concrete forms. These forms…
- Transforming Water Treatment Waste into Durable, Eco-Friendly ConcreteResearchers from the University of South Australia (UniSA) have developed an innovative construction material that could redefine sewage infrastructure through a more sustainable and…
- Self-Repairing Mycelium Material: A Circular Alternative to ConcreteA team of researchers at Montana State University has developed a promising new biomaterial made from mycelium – the root-like structure of fungi –…
- Smart Concrete Innovation Generates and Stores EnergyA research team from Southwest University in China, led by Professor Zhou Yang, has developed a cement-based material that can both generate and store…
- Stronger concrete inspired by bonesEngineers at Princeton University in the US have created a new cement-based material inspired by the tough outer layer of human bones, which makes…
- A speaker made of a concrete masonry blockCanadian industrial design studio Semblance launched their first product, a stereo made of a concrete building block. Called Breeze Block, the stereo uses a…
- A 3D printed concrete bridge made with recycled materialsSwiss building materials manufacturer Holcim, in collaboration with ETH Zurich, Zaha Hadid Architects Computation and Design Group, and incremental3D, created what is said to…
- A bridge made of glass-based concreteCanadian architectural form Provencher Roy used concrete with incorporated locally sourced recycled glass to reduce the carbon footprint of two bridges. The new bridges…
- A concrete 3D printed pavilionIn a collaboration between Prof. Herrmann and Prof. Spaeth of the German Technische Hochschule Lübeck, Dutch specialist in 3D printing Vertico, and construction materials…
- Algae-based concrete blocksWith their Bio-Block Spiral, architectural firm Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM), in collaboration with Prometheus Materials, showcases the potential of blocks created using microscopic…
- Stronger concrete made with coffee groundsResearchers at RMIT in Australia found that concrete can be made up to 30% stringer by replacing part of the sand with spent coffee…
- A smart 3D printed concrete wallResearchers at the University of Cambridge, UK, developed the first 3D printed piece of concrete infrastructure used on a National Highways project. The structure…
- Realistic 3D printed concrete coral reefsCalled 3D Innovareef, researchers at Chulalongkorn University in Thailand developed a ‘Lego-like’ system of 3D printed concrete modules with the aim to accelerate the…
- Inflatable concrete constructionsUS-based start-up Automatic Construction developed a way to create quick construction using inflatable flexible formwork. The concept is simple: roll out the reinforced flexible…
- Living concrete made of bacteria and sandResearchers of University of Colorado Boulder in the US are working on a way to revolutionise building materials, by combining sand and bacteria to…
