Rust may seem like the last thing you want on a metal building, but corten steel is different. Also known as “weathering steel,” or by its trademark name COR-TEN, it’s made of alloys that don’t need ...
Corten steel has been around for quite some time but only recently we started exploring all the design possibilities. Corten ...
For plant people, greenery usually trumps hardscape, but it's impossible to talk about one of the creations of Davis Dalbok and Tim O'Shea without bringing up steel. Dalbok, owner of Living Green ...
From the late 1980s until his death in 1994, artist Donald Judd used Cor-ten weathering steel in many sculptures. The 72 page Donald Judd: Cor-ten—from David Zwirner Books—features those works in ...
Designboom shows a cute modular house that the architects, James & Mau, call a "living box." It has natural ventilation, passive solar design and "an intelligent façade." It's called "Casa Menta" or ...
When one thinks of an artist who works with massive, rusted Cor-ten steel, Richard Serra might be the first name to come to mind. But it was actually 96-year-old Beverly Pepper who was the first ...
The 4,905-square-foot office building is set on a small corner site abutting a road junction in full view to pedestrians and motorists. To mitigate the harsh solar rays from the south, the architects ...
To help lure and orientate tourists to the desert region of Atacama, a visitor centre by Emilio Marín and Juan Carlos López was built on the land as part of a wind farm. Commissioned in 2013, the ...
Cindy Rendely recently completed her first residential project using Corten steel, although some people weren't sure she was actually done. Corten has a rusty appearance that is just about the ...