This couch is a solid block of concrete . It was made by the British firm Grey Concrete as a demonstration of their new, precise molding...  ...m prints.” The molding techniques used by Gray Concrete pick up detail really well so the concrete...

The Medium Awards is an annual materials scien...  .... Pictured above is an inflatable tent made from concrete -embedded cloth. Just add water, and it turns int...  ...turns into a hardened structure. Link | Photo: Concrete Canvas

Time is tight if you are just starting to make...  ...Laboratories has instructions for making your own concrete tombstone! It might not be fancy enough for an ac...

Photo credits: Kevin Conger (top left), Nancy Cong...  ...co, California. The project transforms a desolate concrete landscape into a lush garden:Inspired by the tena...  ...ansformed through hostile takeover of an existing concrete slab by imposing a series of "cracks"....

Traditional concrete will only take so much pressure before it breaks....  ...Michigan in Ann Arbor has developed a new type of concrete that bends under such pressure and can repair its...  ...pressure and can repair itself! The self-healing concrete develops many hairline fr...

This is real, construction-grade concrete . It is not totally transparent, but the optical f...  ...t the optical fibers embedded within it allow the concrete to transmit sufficient light to allow for some in...  ...fibers that run from one end of a poured piece of concrete to t...

I learned something new today: the ugly concrete building style of the 50s to the 70s, exemplified...  ...from the French béton brut or "raw concrete ," but the name does fit the style well):Th...  ...building functions and construction using poured concrete...