by Fünchkins
The Graham House is a beautiful project by E. Cobb Architects featuring lots of glass exterior walls, with a concrete fireplace inside and strategic lighting along the perimeter and exterior of the home.
* More images of this intriguing home can be seen on Architects List
Usually concrete is a material used in the construction of boring structures like parking lots or high-rise apartments, but An/Aesthetic Design has elevated concrete to audio art form with the Jack Speaker.
The Jack speaker is speaker that is simple and edgy with its use of hand cast concrete as a main material. The speaker is tapered to the rear and the concrete has a cut-out to accommodate a wooden cylinder to raise the front of the speaker and to reduce vibrations.
* At the moment, Jack is still in production, but you can pre-order your Jack concrete speaker for delivery in April 2013.
Pavilion Siegen is a weekend fishing retreat built on the shore of Lake Siegen, Germany. Constructed of exposed concrete, the pavilion has a cantilevered roof and base that extend 6 meters over the surface of the lake.
Concrete is by no means a new material but now it is being used in new and exciting ways, from counter tops to stamped decks, the excitement about using concrete seems to be reviving.
One example is these Flaster tiles, a cross between Moroccan and French tiles, they come in a wide range of colours and shapes and can be used on both walls and floors.
* Flaster is available through the Ivanka Concrete Design website, where you can download the Flaster catalog or read more on the designs on NOTCOT.org
For those of us with room enough to have an actual garden, finding pretty stepping stones can be a real pain. Most concrete stepping stones in garden centres are mass produced, moulded copies of every other stepping stone available. No real personality in any of them.
But if you have the soul of an artist, you probably crave individuality, so why not make your own stepping stones. All it requires is a little time, concrete and some imagination.
Follow this tutorial from the Dig Deeper Newsletter and make your own pretty stepping stones
In the leafy suburb of Canterbury, Australia, is this gorgeous little concrete, steel and glass house built for a single family. [Read more...]
From the outside, House K in Stocksund, Stockholm, might look like just a giant block of concrete, but inside, it is a wide open space with double volume ceilings and blond wood floors.
You can see more pictures of House K on Arch Daily
The Gayalux lamp was designed by Xiral Segard and looks like an alien eye ball or a way for our computers to spy on us, but inreality it is an exquisitely designed ball of concrete. Weighing just 5Kg and measuring 26 cm in diameter and 27cm in height, the ball is made from either plain concrete or a black concrete gloss. Made for indoor use only, the lamp takes a compact fluorescent bulb (23W, E27 – 220V, 50 – 60Hz) all for around €340.
