The latest issue of Concrete Quarterly is Winter 2020

This issue features:

Casting Off

• NEWS AND INNOVATION - Megalithic playscapes for teenagers and artificial crevices for crustaceans
• ORIGIN STORY - Kennedytwaddle’s “essay in concrete”

Inspiration

• SONGS IN THE STONES - Patel Taylor sees the light with a crypt-inspired extension at St George’s Bristol
• PIRELLI’S PALAZZO - The tyre giant celebrates its design heritage with some finely patterned precast concrete
• GRAND HEFT AUTO - Cantilevers, curves and car-proof slabs at Cullinan’s automotive research centre
• FASTENED IN PLACE - Chipperfield’s latest German gallery is a landscape study in layered red concrete

Application

• MASTERING MASS - In a warming climate, exposed concrete in schools can help keep classrooms cool
• THE BEAUTIFUL SOUTH - How passive solar design uses glazing, shading and thermal mass to cut energy bills

Lasting Impressions

• LASTING IMPRESSION - Chloë Phelps celebrates mid-century Croydon

From the Archive

• SUMMER 1973 - Rogers and Foster: New kids on the block

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