FINAL FRAME

Trace, London

Bureau de Change’s wonderful way with waste

Bureau de Change architects has updated a 1980s block of flats in London with a pink concrete facade made from demolition waste. Bricks and mortar from the original frontage were crushed into aggregate of up to 6mm in size. This was then incorporated into the hand-cast glass-reinforced concrete panels to create different tones from pale pink to deep red.

Photo Gilbert McCarragher