Concrete Quarterly (CQ) is produced by The Concrete Centre four times a year and is free to download.
First published in 1947, CQ continues to champion iconic concrete projects.
CQ encompasses design guidance, aspiration, inspiration, vision and latest projects. It is aimed at all members of the project team and demonstrates the potential of concrete in terms of architectural vision, structural solutions, best practice and performance.
The following page showcases the best of concrete design and construction, alongside new videos and project studies from every issue of Concrete Quarterly.
Featured Projects
Foster + Partners' Queen Alia airport
Foster + Partners’ new airport in Jordan uses a mix of in-situ and precast concrete techniques to create a mesmerising pattern of shallow domes, curving beams and tapering columns
Co-op’s Manchester HQ: Invisible touch
Hidden within its structure and deep underground, concrete has played a central role in turning the Co-op’s new Manchester HQ into the UK’s greenest office
The Sainsbury Laboratory - winner of the RIBA Stirling Prize 2012
Stanton Williams, AKT II and Kier discuss the design, specification and construction of this world class laboratory. Produced in association with Concrete Quarterly.
Star jumps: how the diving boards took shape
Variously likened to the stamens of an exotic flower, a splash or even poised cobras, the dramatic lines of the aquatics centre’s six diving boards have attracted much interest – not only as a natural centre of attention during the Games, but because they are visually fascinating in themselves.
Kisho Kurokawa's Maggie's Centre
Before he died in 2007, the legendary Japanese architect Kisho Kurokawa sketched out a swirling, ‘dragon-tailed’ cancer care centre in Swansea. Now the UK’s 13th Maggie’s Centre has been completed in titanium-studded concrete by Garbers & James
Joie de vives
Zaha Hadid’s Pierresvives council building in the French city of Montpellier relies on concrete to solve a range of structural and environmental challenges, as well as providing a spectacular geometric facade
Whirl pool
From the swirling, curving walls and diving boards to the pools themselves, concrete makes a big splash at Zaha Hadid’s awe-inspiring aquatics centre
Wall-to-wall coverage
The curving concrete walls of the aquatics centre are one of its defining characteristics. They are first seen in the centre’s welcome area and provide a top and tail to the competition pools, as well as a stylish backdrop to television coverage of the diving.
Solving the panel puzzle
The Maggie’s Centre certainly provided a stern test of the capabilities of precast concrete supplier Thorp Precast. The job involved creating 56 precast panels, and although many of these were similar, very few were identical.
Project Videos
Produced by Client Solutions.
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