UChicago Arts announces the return of Wolf Vostell’s groundbreaking Concrete Traffic sculpture—a more than 16-ton, 1957 Cadillac de Ville encased in concrete—to its longtime home in Hyde Park this ...
It was summer 2011, and Prof. Christine Mehring had just laid out her priorities as chair of the Provost’s faculty advisory committee on campus planning. At the top of her list: public art. Mehring ...
Galerie Hoffmann is unlike any other art institution in the world. Located in two 120-year-old former mills in the town of Friedberg, Germany—just outside of Frankfurt—the gallery uses its 5,800 ...
As we learned last week, concrete began as a structural component of architecture. A mixture of cement, aggregate and water, concrete has been used as a building material for over a millennia. It was ...
With the exhibition CONCRETE GLOBAL! the Museum im Kulturspeicher Würzburg takes up the idea of concrete art as a global phenomenon for the first time and examines its aesthetic manifestations, ...
Thai studio ASWA has placed a four-storey atrium with a huge gridded skylight at the centre of this concrete art gallery and studio in Bangkok. Local studio ASWA, which stands for Architectural Studio ...
Coffered ceiling and polished exterior tilt-up concrete panels are just a few of the concrete features of the new 200,000 square foot expansion project. The dust and debris have been swept away on one ...
Brutalism once suggested stark, monumental forms, with raw concrete presented in uncompromising honesty. Today, that legacy is evolving into a softer interior design language: Soft Brutalism. Rather ...
CONCRETE enabled the ancient Romans to erect structures that surpassed in grandiosity even the marble temples of Greece and the brick palaces of Babylon. Today in Italy—and in most of Europe, where ...