Noticing an artistic lighting installation made from optical fibre one day on a trip to Germany in 2001, Aron Losonczi pondered, and had an idea. Mr Losonczi, then a 24-year old Hungarian architect ...

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 ...

Our story last month about the launch of a product called TranslucentConcrete provoked a lot of comments, with many people pointing out that a similar product called Litracon was patented in 2002. Now ...

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 ...

If you're interested in innovative building materials, you can get a close-up look at the see-through concrete Litracon between now and April 25 in New York. Leslie Katz led a team that explored the ...

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 ...

Outside the industry, concrete is most often thought of as an important – yet boring – standby of the construction industry. That has started to change with the growing popularity of innovations like ...

ave a lot more options when it comes to illuminating their pads. Thanks to the Hungary-based design firm, LiTraCon, architects and designers can construct entire walls that glow. Incorporating optical ...

Brutalists look out. A new type of concrete has been developed, and it looks almost ethereal. Images of LiTraCon, the Light Transmitting concrete – make it look strangely like styrofoam. Hungarian ...

Swedish designer Monica Förster says that she often stares at clouds outside her airplane window and wonders what it would be like to step inside one. After learning that cumulus clouds form in the ...