January 26, 2006 Thanks to a lot of unimaginative work over the last half century, concrete has a bad name, yet at the same time, some of the world’s most beautiful and innovative works of ...

Infused with thousands of glass fiber optic strands that transmit natural or artificial light, Schott's BrightBuild panels transform concrete from an opaque building material into one that can ...

A new "translucent concrete" is said to offer users greater design flexibility. When optics.org wrote about a new light-transmitting concrete called LitraCon three years ago, we had no idea that the ...

The facade starts transmitting light once the LEDs installed behind the backside of the panels are activated. German companyLUCEM developed the technology for the facade design. Light transmitting ...

Who knew concrete could be so cool? The Bavarian city of Bad Staffelstein recently unveiled a newly-renovated thermal bath topped with a light-transmitting concrete cave. The cave’s shell, which is ...

Light transmitting concrete is set to go on sale later this year. The days of dull, grey concrete could be about to end. A Hungarian architect has combined the world’s most popular building material ...

Called “Liquid Stone,” the show features variations of translucent concrete, a newfangled version of the old construction standby that offers a combination of aesthetics and practicality. One display ...

Making light-transmitting concrete sounds like an impossible and ridiculous task, but it turns out that it’s actually a simple project with mesmerizingly beautiful results. You’ll just need to grab ...

Concrete is one of the most used building materials in contemporary architecture. In the last decades, it has gone from a structural building element to a material on surfaces of buildings and public ...

There are several methods that construction companies do to achieve the perfect outcome of every construction project. One way to do so is to use the right type of concrete for concrete construction.