Concrete Houses

nestled on a lot seven meters below the street level in japan, house om by studio monaka is a single-story concrete residence topped with a V-shaped roof.

The Colima-based architecture firm Di Frenna Arquitectos has recently completed Casa Entreparotas a beautiful concerete house that located in Colima city, Colima, Mexico. Project description by the architects: Entreparotas house is a project which allows its users to live in a constant relatio...

If the term oxymoron had a physical representation, it could easily be this intriguing-looking house that was developed by the Japanese studio Tomoaki Uno Architects. Turns out, this brutalist dwelling with fully exposed concrete looks surprisingly different on the inside.

Image 14 of 21 from gallery of Pekin House / TIM ARQUITECTOS. Photograph by Luis Barandiaran

studio cochi architects has combined a residence and workshop into 'house in fusato', a concrete dwelling in japan's okinawa island.

Angular, geometric shapes, hard edges, and monolithic constructions. You are either in a Lego set or looking at an example of brutalist architecture. It’s a devise style, with some seeing it as the pinnacle of function over form, while others just think of endless, soulless commie blocks, with rotting, exposed concrete.

Image 35 of 50 from gallery of Marindia House / MASA Arquitectos. Photograph by Federico Cairoli

FORM/Kouichi Kimura Architects designed an introverted residence, where the interior spaces are defined by changes in level, differences in height and the entrance of natural light.

Concrete and glass are used throughout the interior and exterior of this holiday home in northern Portugal, which local studio Carvalho Araújo designed to blend in with its woodland setting.

a new film by architectural photographers tarry + perry explores the warmth and light of the brutalist 'concrete house' in south east england.