Concrete Homes

Designed by Argentine firm Alarcia Ferrer Arquitectos, this holiday home offers sweeping views and two separate autonomous levels for living.

This hillside home with a primitive profile and dramatic views of the Pacific Ocean is for sale.

The Roscommon House draws on local history to combine undulating concrete walls with a timber-clad interior and exterior pocket courtyards.

These modern concrete homes rock their features with elegance. Take a peek at our editor's favorite homes from the Dwell community that fully embrace the industrial material.

Australian firm Whispering Smith uses commercial materials in a limited footprint for a wabi-sabi effect.

Hugging a gentle slope on the Argentine coast, Casa Bosque by Besonías Almeida Arquitectos integrates with its forest surroundings.

In the El Peñon Reserve, architects use concrete and upcycled trees to design Casa de la Roca, a striking Y-shaped home enveloped in nature.

With greenery dwindling in urban areas, an architecture firm in Ho Chi Minh City designs a home to bring nature back to the city—all with a budget of $155,000.

To the west of Mexico City, a striking retreat is nestled among a lush forest and an enchanting lake.

Arranged to preserve existing trees and form an interior courtyard, these concrete structures are balanced by warm, wood interiors.

The communal spaces on the top floor of this three-story residence open up to ocean views.

In China, concrete reinforcements and box windows waterproof a captain's home and cement its connection to the water.

A Northern California retreat immerses into the landscape with the guidance of shadow and light.

Cleverly placed apertures pierce this skinny residence in Maringá, granting the lush interior an airy feel.

Feeling the squeeze from Hong Kong's affordable housing crisis, one architect turns to a surprising new micro-housing solution.

An undulating, S-shaped interior wall guides the programs within this Brutalist-inspired concrete abode.

Near a beach, and surrounded by verdant rainforests, this concrete home in Brazil fully opens up to the elements.

Beauty, convenience, and simplicity—concrete provides it all in these Latin American homes.

Built with specially-formulated concrete made of volcanic ash, this micro-house in Tokyo maximizes space through vertical construction.

At the end of a winding country lane on the north coast of Cornwall, England, is a quirky vacation rental that combines modern aesthetics with bucolic charm.

The twists, turns, and cantilevers of these residences and public structures are due to the gravity-defying abilities of concrete.

Sitting on the edge of Puertos de Beceite national park in Aragon, Spain, is Casa Solo Pezo, the first property in the Solo Office collection of cutting-edge, architect-designed...

A ribbon of light ties a concrete kitchen to its picturesque landscape.

Extremely durable, versatile, and sustainable to boot, concrete is a smart building material, as these homes show.

At the family home of an Israeli architect, modern and light-filled interiors enliven a brutalist, raw concrete structure.

Made almost entirely of hand-poured concrete, a passive solar retreat in Ecuador hits all the right grooves.

With a history dating back as far as the Roman Empire, concrete sometimes conjures up stark images of Brutalist structures from a bygone era.

In Clerkenwell, an architect re-imagines a space to bring out the "dramatic geometry" of its concrete ceiling.

Behind a traditional colonial in Lima, an angular house attuned to its site takes shape.

Smitten from the start with a 1970s concrete villa in rural Belgium, a resident and her designer embark on a sensitive renovation that excises the bad (carpeted walls, dark rooms)...