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Spring 2022 | Issue Number 278
Concrete Quarterly
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Leader: New powder generation

Specifiers seeking lower-carbon concretes will very soon have a new tool at their disposal

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Origin story: East Quay

Piers Taylor’s cultural centre is a microcosm of its coastal setting – a small town on a rugged pink rock

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Inspiration: Haus on the Ridge

tp bennett director Doug Smith has built a camera-like Passivhaus in the Kent countryside

FROM THE ARCHIVE: SOME OF THE MOST ASTONISHING BUILDINGS TO GRACE CONCRETE QUARTERLY IN THE 1970S CAME FROM THE IMAGINATION OF GOTTFRIED BÖHM, WHO DIED EARLIER THIS YEAR.SUMMER 1965 - THE BORDERS SAN SIRO
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Inspiration: Remote Control

An ambitious offsite strategy has helped to deliver Warwick University’s sustainable biomedical research building

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Lasting impression: Andrew Taylor

From Welsh castles to venetian tombs – via the bunkers of the Korean border

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Inspiration: Circle House

Denmark’s first circular housing scheme has precast concrete components

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Multicomponent mixes for low-carbon cements

The concrete industry is leaving no stone unturned in its quest for lower-carbon cements

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Inspiration: A House for Artists 

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

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Innovation: Carbon Negative Cement

Replacing cementitious materials with a carbon-negative alternative could enable carbonneutral concrete

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Final frame: MKM Museum

The Swiss architects created the original gallery from a 19th-century grain mill

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

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