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Editorial
The authenticity of a material
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Sustainability & Innovative Design
Third Annual Cemex U.S. Building Awards
Positive monumentality
UIA Gold Medal for Teodoro Gonzalez De Leon
creative concrete heads: Veronica Jensen
opusC quiz
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Radically adapted
Studio theatre Bardill in Scharans / Switzerland
Bright spot
Machine wholesaler's with a sophisticated design in Bozen / Italy
The two faces of house no. 8
Office building in the Hamburg HafenCity / Germany
Exterior rooms
White fair-faced concrete for residential development in Zurich / CH
Infra-light
Monolithic fair-faced concrete house in Berlin / Germany
Feel-good concrete
Casa in Switzerland in coloured insulating fair-faced concrete
Wave effect
Structured concrete façade for a house in concrete / Austria
"Clean, but not sterile!"
Juergen Glaesle meets ... Peter Märkli
opusC classics: The somewhat different museum
La Congiunta by Peter Märkli in Giornico / Tessin, CH
Scandalous kiss
Memorial in Berlin to the homosexuals persecuted by the Nazi regime
AA DRL TEN
[C]space-pavilon made from fibre-reinforced concrete in London / UK
Minimal structure
Experimental UHPC pavilion in Kaiserslautern / Germany
Bogoriwald monkey house at the Frankfurt zoo
Photo- engraving formliners for concrete facades
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The leaning towers of Milano
Fair hotel Alberghi del Nuovo Polo fieristico di Milano
Stable base
Gravity foundations for Belgian offshore windfarm
50 hours under water
Jointless manufacture of a gigantic underwater concrete baseplate
Cantilevers over the abyss

Concrete bridge construction in the Italian Alps
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Architectural concrete and the course of time
Aging – the planned patina of a building material
History and development of concrete
From a low-tech to a high-tech material – part 3:
High-performance / high strength concrete
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Concrete with a certain something
'Extrafein' design project at the Bauhaus University in Weimar
elegant – organic – multifunctional
Design furniture made of concrete
Baroque in concrete
Replicas of the sculptures of saints on St. Anna's column in Innsbruck / A
Filled emptiness – concrete shapes
Concrete buildings
Sculptures by the artist Richard Schimanski

EPILOGUE
From Bregenz with love – Concrete architecture in the spotlight
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