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
Inside the Sainsbury Laboratory, Cambridge
Stanton Williams, AKT II and Kier discuss the design, specification and construction of the Stirling nominated Sainsbury Laboratory
Keeping the Athletes' Village green
The concrete framed and clad athletes’ housing was built to last, and is now set for a long future as a low-carbon London neighbourhood
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
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
The ‘cosmic whirlpool’ and other Maggie’s Centres
When writer and garden designer Maggie Keswick Jencks was diagnosed with breast cancer in 1993, together with her husband, the architectural writer Charles Jencks, she set about her creating a charity project to provide cancer sufferers with expert support within a more sympathetic built environment
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