Vo Trong Nghia Architects has built a house on Vietnam's scenic Ha Long Bay with trees growing through its concrete walls. More about Trees burst through walls of Ha Long Villa by Vo Trong Nghia Architects
Atelier Rua has arranged living spaces in this pared-back Portuguese holiday home around an enormous sitting room, which has three different vistas of its verdant surroundings. More about Triple-perspective living room forms core of Casa Meco in Portugal
Architectural photographer Simone Bossi has created a new image series exploring the curved concrete of a tiny building by Japanese architect Tadao Ando. More about Tadao Ando's Meditation Space captured in new photographs by Simone Bossi
Two monolithic concrete walls by designer Luca Fortin are arranged "like an opened book" to form a passageway inside a Quebec City park. More about Luca Fortin constructs concrete passageway for Quebec City park
Argentinean architect Alejandro Sticotti has elevated a wood-clad box above the glazed kitchen and dining room of his family's holiday home on the coast of Uruguay. More about Alejandro Sticotti's holiday home in Uruguay teams weathered wood and textured concrete
Raised mesh gables top Shaded Rooftop House in Seoul by BCHO Architects, so the occupants can enjoy a sheltered outdoor living space. More about BCHO Architects shades open-air top floor of house with mesh gables
The concrete rooms of Jipyungzip, a guesthouse by BCHO Architects in South Korea, are sunk into a grassy slope with flat roofs that form terraces overlooking the sea. More about BCHO Architects merges seaside guesthouse with the landscape
Mexican architect Rozana Montiel has developed a "new kind of folded concrete" that is being used to build prefabricated solid-waste furnaces across Mexico. More about Rozana Montiel builds Mexican incinerators from corrugated-concrete
A subway car-style corridor, worn concrete walls and metal railings feature inside this Shanghai clothing shop, which Sò Studio has designed to emulate New York. More about Shanghai's Canal St shop is styled like the New York subway
Alberto Bologna spotlights 10 key buildings from his book Chinese Brutalism Today, which examines the enduring trend of concrete architecture in China. More about Ten significant concrete buildings featured in Chinese Brutalism Today
Concrete, plaster and tiled surfaces offer a "quiet" backdrop to the pieces on display in this pared-back rug showroom in Sydney, Australia, designed by Studio Goss. More about Studio Goss uses concrete and plaster for Armadillo & Co showroom in Sydney
New York City's Bower Studios has created a chair with a pale concrete top that drapes over a metallic base to form folds on the floor. More about Concrete Melt Chair by Bower Studios folds like a liquid
Architecture practice Deltastudio has turned a former agricultural warehouse in Italy into a house with a balcony framed with white curtains. More about Deltastudio converts concrete warehouse into minimalist family home
Dutch architecture studio MVRDV's mixed-use Shenzhen Terraces development will be built at the Shimao ShenKong International Centre in Shenzhen. More about MVRDV designs "urban living room" with stacked plateaus for Shenzhen
Architect Baerbel Mueller and architectural designer Juergen Strohmayer have created a multi-use gallery for the Nubuke Foundation in Ghana. More about Baerbel Mueller and Juergen Strohmayer create concrete gallery in Accra
Photographer Roberto Conte has captured the geometric shapes of Le Corbusier's weathered concrete buildings at Chandigarh's in his latest series. More about Photographer Roberto Conte captures Chandigarh's iconic modernist buildings
Architecture studio Tectoniques has built a house from concrete dyed with ochre that emerges from the ground in Saint-Cyr-au-Mont-d'Or, France. More about Tectoniques sets ochre-coloured concrete house into French hillside
Architecture studio Jordi Hidalgo Tané has extended a small stone building in rural Navarra, Spain, with a subterranean concrete annex accessed via a glass corridor. More about Glass corridor connects underground concrete extension to house in Spain
Architcture practice. LUO Studio has extended the abandoned foundations and concrete columns of a residential project with a timber-framed upper storey to create a community centre in Yuanheguan, China. More about LUO Studio turns abandoned concrete foundations into community centre
Pavel Míček Architects has built a concrete holiday home in the Beskydy Mountains of eastern Europe. More about Pavel Míček Architects sinks house into a hillside in Czech mountains