CLICK CLACK HOTEL by Plan B Arquitectos

CLICK CLACK HOTEL

a project by Plan B Arquitectos

Bogota, Colombia, completed 2012

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If you’re looking for a sophisticated place to stay while visiting the city of Bogota (in Colombia), Click Clack Hotel might be just the friendliest and coolest hotel you may “stumble upon”. With a fresh interior and a stylish and imposing façade, Click Clack adds a touch of class to your trip. The striking design is the work of plan:B Arquitectos in collaboration with Perceptual Studio. Together, they figured out to connect the interior with the

KHOPOLI HOUSE by SPASM Design Architects

KHOPOLI HOUSE

a project by SPASM Design Architects

Khopoli, Maharashtra, India, completed 2013

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Local basalt stone mixed into the concrete used to construct this holiday home in India helps to connect it with its mountainous site. Mumbai firm SPASM Design Architects took its cue from the dark tones of the basalt which surrounds the site on a rocky hillside in the Maharashtra region.

"We chose to build the house as an accretion on this rocky basalt outcrop with the same inherent material transformed," the architects said, explaining how they mixed water, sand, cement and granular basalt to cast the

SHARIFI-HA HOUSE by Nextoffice

SHARIFI-HA HOUSE

a project by Nextoffice

Darrous, Tehran, Iran, completed 2013

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Ever want to just move your room to the other side of the house when the sun starts to shine in your window? Maybe it's early in the morning and you're trying to sleep, or maybe it's in the late afternoon, and you're starting to cook alive. Iranian architects Nextoffice built the Sharifi-Ha House in Tehran with a series of movable rooms, that change position as needed, to maximize natural light. Each of the three boxes rotates independently to

DRAPERS TOWER by Point 4 Space

DRAPERS TOWER

a project by Point 4 Space

Brașov, Romania, completed 2011

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Brasov is one of the Transylvanian cities built in the Middle Ages by German (Saxon) colonists. Most of its fortifications were demolished to make way for massive development in the 19th and the 20th centuries. In the last ten years the city council has commenced a program of gradual restoration and conversion of the remaining walls, towers and bastions.

The Drapers Bastion, converted by Point 4 architects, is part of this fortification system. Having been abandoned

CORRUGATED CONCRETE HOUSE by Cherem Arquitectos

CORRUGATED CONCRETE HOUSE

a project by Cherem Arquitectos

Mexico City, Mexico, completed 2014

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Mexican office Cherem Arquitectos designed this concrete house with a corrugated exterior for a family of four just outside Mexico City. House P was designed Cherem Arquitectos and collaborator Rodolfo Diaz for Mexican footballer Aarón Padilla and his family in an area surrounded by woods and hills.

"Their big dream was to use concrete," said the architects. "They approached us two years ago, asking for a

TIANZHOUSHAN TEA HOUSE by Archiplein

TIANZHOUSHAN TEA HOUSE

a project by Archiplein

Anhui, China, completed 2011

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The folded concrete walls of this lakeside visitor centre in China's Anhui Province were designed by architects Archiplein to mimic the uneven surfaces of the surrounding mountains. The two-storey building sits at the base of Jiǔhuá Shān, one of the five Sacred Mountains of China, and provides a restaurant and rest stop for the many pilgrims that visit the landmark each year. Architects Feng Yang, Leroux Marlène and Jacquier Francis of

ZENKONYU x TAMPING EARTH by Tadashi Saito + Atelier NAVE

ZENKONYU x TAMPING EARTH

a project by Tadashi Saito + Atelier NAVE

Kagawa, Japan, completed 2013
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From the architect:

This work is part of the Setouchi Triennale 2013. In Shiwaku Islands including Honjima, there were a large number of carpenters (over 400 master carpenters) from the late Edo era to the Meiji era. Shiwaku carpenters were the people who were a shipwright made use of the high technique and came to make house and Domiya. It is seemed that they widened a range of work to the place where not only the Setouchi coast but also a goods-carrying

SILOS 13 by vib architecture

SILOS 13

a project by vib architecture

Paris, France, Completed 2014

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French architecture firm VI.B Architecture has designed a cluster of giant concrete silos to house the headquarters for a cement distribution centre on the outskirts of Paris. Silos 13 was created by VI.B Architecture as a new base for French cement firm Calcia, situated in the Bruneseau Nord industrial neighborhood beside Paris' eastern ring road – one of Europe's busiest freeways. Passed by an average of 300,000 vehicles a day and the first building in

PHOENIX HOUSE by Sebastian Mariscal Studio

PHOENIX HOUSE

a project by Sebastian Mariscal Studio

Cardiff-by-the-Sea, California, USA, completed 2012

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Concrete can wear many faces. In the wrong hands it goes cold and clinical, the stuff of a thousand Brutalist eyesores. But when made with skill, it becomes something else entirely, imbued with a tactile allure that's well suited for residential projects. This allure is largely responsible for the quiet, contemplative power of Phoenix House. It’s fitting that the owners, a married couple with three sons, felt drawn to this indestructible material. “We