A lightweight upper storey clad in perforated metal is elevated on timber beams above a concrete podium at this fire station in Straubenhardt, Germany, designed by local practice Wulf Architekten. More about Wulf Architekten creates perforated metal fire station in Germany
Japanese architecture studio KKAA YTAA has used simple exposed concrete blocks to create a holiday home in Japan's Ise-Shima National Park. More about KKAA YTAA creates concrete-block home overlooking Japanese national park
Architecture studio Ramos Alderete has created a concrete grotto of remembrance in a private garden in Las Rozas, Spain, featuring a concave opening that shelters a stone sculpture. More about Ramos Alderete creates La Ermita de Lola shrine in Spanish garden
Local studio Crosson Architects used dark-coloured concrete to help the circular Te Pae lifeguard tower blend in with its setting on a remote black-sand beach near Auckland, New Zealand. More about Crosson Architects creates stealthy lifeguard tower on remote New Zealand beach
Polycarbonate walls and a row of tall window boxes bring diffused sunlight into the Iowa City Public Works building by US firm Neumann Monson Architects. More about Soft light fills Iowa municipal building by Neumann Monson Architects
An enormous thatched roof structure with open sides covers the communal areas of this home perched on a rocky cliff overlooking the Pacific Ocean in Mexico by Zozaya Arquitectos. More about Zozaya Arquitectos tops cliffside home in Mexico with open thatched roof
Chilean studio Pezo von Ellrichshausen has completed a house in the mountains outside Santiago that combines coloured concrete with a grid of partial circles. More about Pezo von Ellrichshausen opts for yellow concrete at Raem House
Architecture firm Inrestudio has created an office and residential building for a mining company in Vietnam's Quang Binh province, featuring a conical concrete roof and openings on all sides. More about Hat-like roof crowns The Kaleidoscope office and accommodation building in Vietnam
US studio Desai Chia Architecture designed a highly sculptural, waterfront home wrapped in concrete and charred cypress that has vaulted roofs resembling wings. More about Desai Chia creates "winged" roofs for Copake Lake House in New York
Japanese studio Nendo has created an archive to house its products and furniture from precast concrete box culverts in central Japan. More about Nendo stacks concrete tunnels to create archive and guesthouse in Miyota
Researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder have developed a way of using algae to create carbon-neutral or even carbon-negative concrete. More about Algae-grown limestone provides route to carbon-negative concrete
Tetro Arquitetura has lifted an angular, lily-shaped home on stilts in a lush Brazilian forest in a way that prevented the unnecessary removal of surrounding trees. More about Tetro Arquitetura uses black stilts to lift angular house in Brazilian forest
Project Dove by Toronto studio Agathom Co. was designed to replicate the feeling of a "cottage in the city", offering a variety of spaces for family life that include a greenhouse. More about Agathom equips "cottage in the city" with angular ceilings and a greenhouse
Estudio MMX used a strategy of "stylistic hybridization" to conform to local building guidelines for a four-gabled holiday home with a central skylight in Mexico. More about Estudio MMX tops gabled Mexican holiday home with dramatic skylight
Boxy balconies and decorative recessed windows characterise this colourful housing complex in Raipur, India, by Sanjay Puri Architects, which was engineered to withstand its location's hot climate. More about Vibrant colours define housing complex in India by Sanjay Puri Architects
Researchers at technology university ETH Zurich have created a deeply ridged ceiling called the HiRes Concrete Slab, which they claim saves energy while offering a spectacular aesthetic. More about ETH Zurich creates dramatically contoured concrete slab ceiling
A pink-concrete canopy shelters a seating area around a small garden at the Courtyard Pavilion in Hargeisa, the capital of the autonomous region of Somaliland, designed by local studio Rashid Ali Architects. More about Rashid Ali creates pink-concrete pavilion with "miniature botanical garden" in Somaliland
Umberto Bonomo and Felipe Alarcón have created a house with an exterior of cinder blocks, overlooking sweeping views of Chile's rugged Pacific coastline. More about LBS house is a cinder block retreat on rugged Chilean coastline
A board-formed concrete staircase that leads to a double-height library and a bathroom with irregular concrete walls are among ten home interiors with board-formed concrete showcased in this lookbook. More about Ten homes that make decorative use of board-formed concrete
American architecture studio Thomas Phifer and Partners has built a concrete structure at the Glenstone Museum in Maryland to house an artwork by sculptor Richard Serra. More about Thomas Phifer creates monolithic concrete gallery as home for Richard Serra artwork