Constructing With Concrete: Hardcore Projects and Products

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Widely recognized as being responsible for 8% of global CO2 emissions, concrete should be a blacklisted material, relegated to the shameful annals of architectural history. Rapid global urbanization, however, will ensure its unequaled production simplicity and structural strength help retain concrete’s firm grip on the construction industry.

If you can’t beat it, improve it: is the industry’s mantra on innovation, currently developing various alternatives to concrete or its constituent parts and admixtures. So with a concrete set for the environmental green list, the concrete revolution –using the material as an aesthetic exterior facade, interior decoration and fittings, or even in furniture and lighting, as well as a structural framework– is free to continue.

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Cite: James Wormald. "Constructing With Concrete: Hardcore Projects and Products" 01 Nov 2022. ArchDaily. Accessed . <https://www.archdaily.com/991393/constructing-with-concrete-hardcore-projects-and-products> ISSN 0719-8884

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