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 ...

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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 ...