UARTERLY Quarterly SPRING 2016 | ISSUE NUMBER 255 Concrete Spring 2013 | Cool Concrete | Issue Number 243 Quarterly CONCRETE

THIS IS CONCRETE CONCRETE CONCRETE QUARTERLY QUARTERLY SPRING 2016 | ISSUE NUMBER 255 CONCRETE SPRING 2013 | COOL CONCRETE | ISSUE NUMBER 243 QUARTERLY CONCRETE CONCRETE QUARTERLYQUARTERLY WINTER 2009 WINTER 2012 | PUBLIC BUILDINGS | ISSUE NUMBER 242 ISSUE NUMBER 230 AUTUMN 2015 | ISSUE NUMBER 253 Maxxi Museum Visual display Raising standards Zaha Hadid Architects’ Terry Pawson Architects’ Rivington Street Studio’s OSCAR CELEBRATION SECRET SERVICE SURREALISM BY THE SEA new art museum in Rome new arts centre in Carlow Tomlinson Centre makes the Remembering the genius of Concrete goes undercover to play a Is it a plant? Is it a cheesecake? appeals with swooping curves uses concrete and glass most of concrete’s flexibility in Niemeyer – the man who made vital role at the Co-op’s new HQ – Strange goings-on in the south and lots of natural light to express a quiet confidence adapting to its surroundings CONCRETE concrete cool a BREEAM ‘outstanding’ office of France … QUARTERLY 01 CQ Cover_v2.indd 1 19/02/2013 14:31 ISSUE NUMBER 249 WHAT’SNUMBER IN THEISSUE | BOX? 2014 STILLAUTUMN SWINGING MAKING A SPLASH A windowless white atrium Essex University’s brutalist 1960s The essential rules for building intrigues art lovers at a southern campus gets its groove back with the perfect reinforced-concrete French gallery Patel Taylor’s concrete student hub swimming pool 001_Cover_V2.indd 1 22/02/2016 11:13 1947 - 2017 CELEBRATING SEVEN DECADES OF CONCRETE ARCHITECTURE AND ENGINEERING BOLD AND BEAUTIFUL OXFORD FIRST WAVE OF VEGETATION Stunning visual concrete leaves its Zaha Hadid adds some snaking The new Paris sustainability mark everywhere from the Stirling curves to the city of spires and research centre with a rolling shortlist to the Shanghai docks quadrangles meadow for a roof LONDON COOLING LONDON NIL NEWTON ONE, HADID CENTER TRADE WORLD THE AT How a new generation of city city of generation new a How an with gravity defies ZHA western the in tower tallest The offices is finding innovative ways ways innovative finding is offices cantilever concrete astonishing super-strong the and hemisphere to cut the air-con the cut to Beirut in possible it made that structure 001_Cover_v5.indd 1 19/08/2015 18:00 27/08/2014 11:52 27/08/2014 1 001_Cover_NJ.indd ZAHA IN MONTPELLIER IN THE SHADOW OF GIANTS WHAT LIES BENEATH Has there ever been a council The Northern Irish visitor centre First-century Roman remains building quite as spectacular as that follows in some famously meet 21st-century structural Hadid’s Pierresvives? large footsteps engineering in Chichester 01 CQ Cover v4_NJ_NW.indd 1 26/11/2012 11:29 CONCRETE QUARTERLY WINTER 2013 | ISSUE NUMBER 246: CONCRETE LIVING EXCLUSIVE AND RECLUSIVE FOSTER IN ARGENTINA AND ON THE SEVENTH DAY … Exposed concrete brings simplicity Can the architect persuade How Adrian James built an and style to luxury retreats in the fashionable Buenos Aires of the award-winning home from precast wilds of India and Australia beauty of fair-faced finishes? concrete panels in less than a week 001 CQ Winter13_Cover_v2 - Copy ([email protected]).indd 1 22/11/2013 08:50 WELCOME CONTENTS I think my colleagues were rather sceptical when I joined The Concrete From the Pantheon to the Moon. 4 Centre in 2003. If having a marketing background wasn’t bad enough, I had no prior experience of the construction sector at all. I’d worked in Concrete’s glorious past and exciting future the creative industries and in technology, but it seemed that it was going Second coming ��6 to take some time to earn my stripes among those who had dedicated Why architects can’t resist visual concrete much of their lives to architecture and engineering. The low point in those early days was probably when I admitted that I didn’t know who Stand-out moments . 12 Le Corbusier was. Memorable structures from CQ’s archive Fourteen years on, Concrete Quarterly has a lot to answer for. I went from Exhibition guide . 16 proofing the pages to actually reading them, to doing more research about the projects, to asking questions about the finer details of the Lasting Impressions 2087 �� 20 concrete. Soon I was pinning images of Santiago Calatrava’s Turning Torso Which recent buildings will be icons in 70 years? tower (below) on my desk partition – I was particularly struck by how, as CQ wrote, he was able to “remove any boundaries between engineering, sculpture and architecture”. It seemed that my initiation was complete – it had taken only a year. In its long history, Concrete Quarterly has covered many of the great masters of architecture and engineering. I may now know their names, and be able to hold my head up high in conversation with colleagues, but it’s the work of current practitioners that has most captured my imagination and respect. During my time helping to steer this magazine, there are a The Concrete Centre provides guidance, seminars, courses, online few projects that stand out as personal favourites: the MAXXI museum and resources and industry research for the design community. Our vision is to make concrete the material of choice, and to enable all those London 2012 Aquatics Centre by Zaha Hadid, Persistence Works studio and involved in building design, construction and maintenance to realise gallery by Feilden Clegg Bradley, David Chipperfield’s Neues Museum and its full potential. the Angel Building by AHMM, and of course the Turning Torso. The Concrete Centre is supported by industry to inform, educate and It’s a privilege to be the current publisher of Concrete Quarterly, and inspire. Our members are Aggregate Industries, Allen Newport, British we hope that the 70th anniversary celebrations planned by The Concrete Precast, Breedon Group, Brett Group, Britannia Aggregates, Cemex, Cormac, Deme Building Materials, FM Conway, Gallagher Aggregates, Centre will do credit to the magazine’s illustrious legacy, as well as helping Grundon, Hanson, Harleyford Aggregates, HH & HE Drew, Hills Quarry all those involved in shaping the built environment to feel inspired, Products, J & J Franks, J Clubb, JJ Prior, Marshalls Group, Moorhouse reinvigorated and proud of the positive contribution that concrete makes Sand & Gravel, Moreton C Cullimore, Morris & Perry, Myers Group, to our lives, by making possible such feats of architecture and engineering. Rotherham Sand & Gravel, Salop Sand & Gravel, Sea Aggregates, Smith & Sons, Springfield Farm, Tarmac, Trefigin, Tudor Griffiths, Volker With Artifice books on architecture, Dredging and Wildmoor. we are publishing a retrospective, The The Concrete Centre is part of the Mineral Products Association, World Recast: 70 buildings from 70 the trade association for the aggregates, asphalt, cement, concrete, years of Concrete Quarterly. Browsing its dimension stone, lime, mortar and silica sand industries. pages, it becomes clear how significant a part concrete has played in our www.concretecentre.com @concretecentre social, economic and environmental development since the postwar period. This is Concrete shares interesting facts about The influence of the material and its concrete and showcases amazing projects via evolution will no doubt continue – our website, blogs, twitter feed and our project whatever lies ahead, it is my hope that and fact adverts. Our mission is to engage the design community and share the endless Concrete Quarterly will continue to possibilities of concrete. capture it. www.thisisconcrete.co.uk @thisisconcrete Claire Ackerman, head of marketing and communications, The Concrete Centre Edited and produced by Wordmule www.wordmule.co.uk Design by Nick Watts Design www.nickwattsdesign.co.uk 4 THIS IS CONCRETE WHEREFROM THE HAVE years is but a blink in the history of mankind, and 70 even in the life of PANTHEONWE COME FROM, concrete architecture. Concrete has existed in some form since time immemorial, though it is WHERE ARE only in the last 150 years, since TO THE MOON the invention of reinforced concrete, that it has become the most used manmade material WE GOING? on earth, the second most used overall, only exceeded by water. Concrete has a rich and surprisingly long As early as 8000 years ago, a collation of materials including history, says Guy Thompson, but the best naturally occurring cementitious may be yet to come … binders was used for a range of building types from organic earth shelters to major cultural complexes. But it was the Romans who first invented what we call hydraulic cement-based concrete. They built numerous concrete structures, including the Pantheon in Rome, one of the finest examples of Roman architecture, which has a 42m-diameter dome made of poured concrete. In the concrete we pour today, Portland cement is the most commonly used kind, and the process to produce it was invented in England in 1824 by Joseph Aspdin. The name “Portland” may have been originally chosen to encourage a favourable comparison to the popular building stone, or it may merely have been the location from which the product was quarried. As with most English inventions, early development took place abroad, in Germany, Italy, the US and France. In 1867, a French gardener named Joseph Monier decided to add iron mesh – and reinforced concrete was born. Its importance was immense: combining the two materials offered both tensile PAST AND FUTURE 5 Over the next 70 years, CQ was to reflect the rise, fall and more recent renaissance of concrete architecture. One style above all others encapsulates this trajectory: Brutalism. Loved and loathed in equal measure, Brutalism perhaps best encapsulates concrete architecture’s contradictions and its challenges. Today, many iconic exemplars have been lost but many have been retained, reused and listed, having become much loved and an intrinsic part of our towns and cities. As for the future direction of concrete architecture, there are plenty of exciting developments in ABOVE NASA is developing technologies that use local resources to construct lunar and martian infrastructure.

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