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Reflections on Concrete Elegance - Texture & Context

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The new visitors centre at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park, presented by Fergus Feilden of Feilden Fowles Architects with Greg Nordberg of engineers HRW, and the recent extension to the Templeman Library in the University of Kent presented by Suzi Winstanley of Penoyre & Prasad architects with Andy Toohey of Price & Myers engineers.

Exposed concrete grabs the eye on Stirling shortlist

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There is a clear frontrunner for concrete lovers on this year’s Stirling prize shortlist. Apparata Architects’ A House for Artists in Barking, Essex is the most overtly concrete building to make the cut since another house for an artist, 6a’s Juergen Teller Studio, in 2017.

Hiscox Headquarters, York

The Concrete Centre

Make’s HQ for Hiscox in York rewrites the rulebook for insurers’ offices, with swaths of sculptural concrete and a Soviet missile in the atrium.

Juergen Teller Studio, London

The Concrete Centre

London studio for artist and photographer Juergen Teller is in texture, form and finish, as rich as an old master.

A House for Artists, London

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Apparata Architects’ affordable housing block in Barking provides 12 spacious, flexible homes – using 20% less embodied carbon than the RIBA 2030 target. Pamela Buxton finds out how it was done