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The Concrete Society maintains one of the world’s largest libraries specialising in cement and concrete, active since 1937. #concrete #cement #CISF

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🚨Announcement 🚨

After 7 years on this site, it’s time to call it a day. We will be closing our account in the New Year.

Thank you to all our concrete-loving followers & anyone who has engaged with us over the years.

Wishing you all a Merry Christmas. 🎄

[The Concrete Society @ukConcrete]

Just 1 day to go until The Concrete Society Awards 2024!

https://t.co/RmrghIU22A

#concrete #construction #awards

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#OTD in 1824 Joseph Aspdin of Leeds was granted a patent for a “method of making a cement or artificial stone ... which I call Portland Cement”. It remains a
foundation document for the present #cement industry.

[Dr Jamie Davies @JDaviesHeritage]

Brutalist Aberdeen @C20Society @new_brutalism @SOSBrutalism @concretelibrary

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Designed by architects Troup & Steele, the Strand Building at @KingsCollegeLon was a #Brutalist statement when built in 1971. Its RC frame had a façade of #precast #concrete elements whose bush-hammered finish exposed the Cornish granite aggregate.

[Simon Phipps @new_brutalism]

Maiden Lane Estate, Camden, London; designed by Benson and Forsyth of Camden Council Architect's Department, built 1976-81
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Photo: Simon Phipps

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#Concrete was heavily promoted by the Cement & Concrete Association as an ideal material for air shelters, long before the Blitz of 1940-41. The example below is an all-concrete structure, one of many designs developed for private household’s use. #WWII

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A seaside view at the end of summer: detail from the central sea walls at #Cromer #Norfolk. Concrete was used to construct the section adjacent to the pier when built in 1899-1902. With thanks to Des King for this image.

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In a retrospective article from 1971, headed ‘A Brutalist’s Banquet’, the latest Concrete Quarterly features the Grade II-listed refectory at St Antony’s College #Oxford designed by architects HKPA. #Brutalism #concrete #architecture

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The Cromwell Tower with its curved balcony parapets and textured #concrete finishes so characteristic of London’s #Barbican estate.

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The Brutalist extension to @UlsterMuseum by architect Francis Pym, which was completed in 1972. #Brutalism #Belfast #concrete

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Titanic Belfast. #concrete #insitu #formwork

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Shakespeare Tower, Barbican. #Brutalism #concrete

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John Smeaton, born #OTD 1724, was the first to be called a ‘civil engineer’. Famously, when building the Eddystone Lighthouse, he discovered that the best hydraulic limes were those with an argillaceous admixture, a key step in the development of #cement.

[Simon Phipps @new_brutalism]

Leon House, Croydon, London; designed by Tribech, Leifer and Starkin, built 1968-69
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Photo: Simon Phipps

[ICE Library @ICELibrary]

Smeaton wrote an account of the construction of the Eddystone lighthouse including experiments with hydraulic mortar. His intention was that it might help with future repointing. #Smeaton300 https://t.co/TvDiaP2PMP

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Birmingham New Street signal box by Bicknell & Hamilton, built in 1964-66, closed in 2022. Its #Brutalism is heightened by use of corrugated #precast cladding. Grade II-listed in 1995 as “a dramatic building of exceptional architectural quality with a strongly sculptural form”.

[Dezeen @dezeen]

Mexican architect Carlos H Matos has completed a concrete house designed to be an "ode to antiquity" and "futurity":
https://t.co/FhDbw67H2n

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Blue Boar Quad at Christchurch College #Oxford is a seminal Modern design by Powell & Moya that dates from 1965-68. Built of bush-hammered #precast #concrete with Roach stone dressings, it is now listed Grade II*. Old and new viewed from Blue Boar Lane.

[Jo Underhill @JoStructuraleye]

Have added the beautiful William Mitchell murals at Winstanley Estate, London to my ongoing Beautiful Brutalism photography project.
Photographs can be seen here - https://t.co/opUn2qfUNZ

#mondaysarebrutal #photography