From intricate residential patio work to decorative flooring to multi-hued columns in sports stadiums – plenty of today’s projects require contractors to use colored concrete. But how do you decide ...

Simply sign up to the House & Home myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. “Enveloping”, “womblike” and “warm” are not terms normally associated with Brutalism’s key ingredient: concrete. And ...

In the past when architects and designers mentioned concrete, people rarely got excited. It usually meant a dull, grey, visually unappealing appearance. Today though, thanks to new technological ...

Two thousand years ago throughout Central and South America, ancient Mayan engineers cooked limestone and created one of the first forms of hydraulic cement. That cement was the foundation of the ...

Using a new oxide blending plant from Rockwood, USA, Firth Industries is bringing New Zealanders a new range of coloured concrete called Elements. Firth has developed the range of eight popular earth ...

Q: I love the look of colored brick for paving, including my driveway, sidewalks and patio. I’ve started to pay attention to older installations of colored concrete paving brick, and many look faded.

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. Called P House, the semi-hidden structure has a rough, ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Rod Fuentes wanted a sleek, modern grey driveway to match his new house. Just like the thousands of other grey driveways he saw every ...