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Summer 2022 | Issue Number 279
Concrete Quarterly
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Leader: Raising our game

By something of a coincidence, there’s a lot of flying concrete in this issue

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Origin story: F51 Skatepark

How Holloway studios flipped a plan for a car park into the world’s first multistorey skate venue

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Inspiration: Jodrell Bank

Hassell Studio’s visitor centre at the Jodrell Bank observatory features the largest concrete dome in the UK

FROM THE ARCHIVE: MAXWELL AYRTON IS BEST KNOWN FOR DESIGNING THE ORIGINAL WEMBLEY STADIUM AND THE 1924 BRITISH EMPIRE EXHIBITION.WINTER 1968 - WEATHERING IN ‘A GENTLEMANLY MANNER’
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Inspiration: Marshall Building

From rotated grids to huge trunk-like columns and post-tensioned cantilevers

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Lasting impression: Sasha Bhavan

Three mountainous concrete buildings in three very different landscapes

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Inspiration: Grosvenor East

Allies and Morrison makes space for some noisy residents at Manchester Metropolitan University’s new arts building

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Application: Ready for zero

Tougher targets for both homes and non-domestic buildings, the government is continuing to push construction toward zero

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Inspiration: Morland Mixité Capitale

Apparata Architects’ affordable housing block in Barking provides 12 spacious, flexible homes

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Innovation: Kiacrete

A new kind of permeable paving embeds recycled plastic tubes in a self-compacting cementitious material

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Application: Max Fordham House, London

Case study: The concrete-framed house that the environmental engineer designed and lived in

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Final frame: Homerton College, Cambridge

Feilden Fowles has completed a faience-clad dining hall for Homerton College at the University of Cambridge

WELCOME TO THE CONCRETE QUARTERLY ARCHIVE.... A WEALTH OF ISSUES, GOING BACK TO 1947BROWSE THE CQ ARCHIVE LIBRARY

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