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Editorial
Concrete – from conviction
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Fritz Leonhardt – The art of designing
The White City – Tel Aviv's Modern Movement
opus C quiz
Master of the concrete shell – Heinz Isler deceased
Global Holcim Awards
creative concrete heads: Patrick Declerck
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Sophisticated qualities
Single-family house Ruchenbergstrasse in Chur
Self-confident reverence
The new Acropolis Museum in Athens
Broken rock
Hydroelectric power station from white WU concrete in Winnebach
A gallery between art and nature
An Korean art village dominated by integrally coloured concrete
Bio + concrete = Byodo
New headquarters for bio company in Munich
Concrete is becoming the thing
"Recycling" fair-faced concrete walls in Munich
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Labels in green concrete
Formwork technology for fashion showrooms in Berlin
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TexModul
Sandwich construction elements made from textile concrete
Slender miracle
Large-scale, thin-walled curtain façade made from textile concrete
Fair-faced concrete as a team effort
Know-how and service for formwork and scaffolding

Contacts – Qualified companies
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Antony Gormley
Exhibition with concrete installation in Bregenz
Concrete at its best
The concrete manufacture OGGI
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