A campus-like park of concrete offices topped with green roofs forms the new Vanke Design Community in Shenzhen, featuring two sunken plots completed by architecture practice FCHA. More about Vanke Design Community is cluster of workspaces topped by parks
Greenery-filled courtyards and waffle ceilings bring light to the interiors of this concrete restaurant, which Vector Architects has erected near the shore of Beidaihe, China. More about Indoor courtyards interrupt Restaurant y Sea in northeast China
American designer Brandon Clifford has drawn inspiration from megalithic architecture to create concrete sculptures that join together like a jigsaw puzzle. More about Brandon Clifford creates heavy concrete sculptures that sway and roll
New York firm SO-IL has envisioned a six-storey, concrete apartment building for León, Mexico, which is meant to offer an alternative solution for the country's low-cost housing shortage. More about SO-IL designs affordable housing for urban centre in growing Mexican city
A covered street cuts through this new university campus building in northern Brazil designed by Rede Arquitetos, Croquis Projetos and Neudson Braga, providing a shaded and breezy area for students to socialise between classes. More about White concrete shutters front Brazilian university building
The monolithic concrete forms associated with brutalist architecture inspired the interiors of Axel Arigato's Copenhagen flagship store, which the shoe brand has designed in collaboration with Christian Halleröd. More about Bum-shaped sculptures feature in Axel Arigato's brutalist Copenhagen flagship
Overgrown concrete pergolas have been installed around Monticello, a brick house restored by Di Gregorio Associati Architetti in northern Italy. More about Di Gregorio Associati surrounds rural Italian house with planted concrete pergolas
Dancers at the Origen Festival in the Swiss Alps will perform around nine unique columns 3D-printed in concrete by students from ETH Zurich. More about Students' 3D-printed Concrete Choreography pillars provide a stage for dancers
Urko Sanchez Architects has designed a concrete compound in Djibouti for the charity SOS Children's Villages International as a home for vulnerable children. More about Urko Sanchez Architects builds miniature walled city for orphans
Architects Eduard Balcells, Ignasi Rius and Daniel Tigges have designed a wood-clad concrete kindergarten for the El Tiller Waldorf-Steiner School in Bellaterra, Spain. More about Prefabricated pine panels clad kindergarten near Barcelona
Vietnamese practice K59 Atelier has designed its own architecture office and home for a family in Ho Chi Minh City, connecting two alleyways with an open and airy ground floor. More about K59 Atelier merges its studio and home in concrete-framed block
Vo Trong Nghia Architects has completed a series of six triangular concrete pavilions connected by a low block of office spaces for Vietnamese telecommunications group Viettel. More about Vo Trong Nghia Architects connects six triangular pavilions to create zigzag office
AZL Architects has completed Song House, a concrete five-bedroom house adapted to the needs of its elderly and infirm occupants in the rural village of Nansong, China. More about AZL Architects wraps wheelchair ramp around multi-generational house
Yalin Architectural Design made shutters from the wooden planks used for the board-formed concrete frame of Goat House, a holiday house in a small farming village in Turkey.
More about Goat House's shutters are made from wood recycled from its construction
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Johan Sundberg Arkitekter and Blasberg Andreasson have built Andrum, a concrete spa overlooking the grounds of a centuries-old estate in Höör, Sweden. More about Johan Sundberg adds concrete spa to 16th century Swedish estate
Openable concrete panels and sun-shading blinds add dynamism to the otherwise austere facades of the Elcano housing block by Madrid-based practice FRPO. More about Rotating concrete shutters enliven facade of housing block in Madrid
A steeply pitched roof tops this small concrete and wood chapel that Mexican architecture firm S-AR has built in Monterrey. More about S-AR builds tiny concrete chapel La Providencia in Mexico
Construction company Bouygues Bâtiment International has built Clement Canopy, a pair of 140-metre-high towers made of prefabricated concrete modules. More about World's tallest modular tower is now Clement Canopy in Singapore
Local architecture studio Candalepas Associates has completed a mosque with a decorative concrete-vaulted roof in Sydney, Australia. More about Traditional Islamic architecture informs ornamental concrete vaulting in Punchbowl Mosque