A fabric that hardens like concrete after it's soaked in water could provide emergency housing around the world. Concrete Cloth has been developed over the past three years by British company Concrete ...

Milliken recently debuted a flexible fabric that allows for concrete installations on slopes, in water, and in other hard to reach places—without the need for molds or mixing. Concrete Cloth features ...

UK company Concrete Canvas have been awarded Material of the Year 2009 by materials consultancy Material ConneXion for their cement-impregnated fabric. Called Concrete Cloth, the material consists of ...

When a disaster strikes, it’s often difficult to get shelters up in time for displaced residents. Enter Concrete Canvas’s new Concrete Cloth, a durable waterproof building material made of cement ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An inflatable concrete building sounds a bit ludicrous - until you see the seemingly-magical construction of a Concrete Canvas ...

Looking to build a man-cave resembling something out of the Applied Sciences section of Wayne Enterprises? While undoubtedly Batman’s bivouac of choice, the Concrete Canvas Shelter (~$30,000+) is also ...

Rock Miller isn’t a typical artist. A concrete pump takes the place in his hands where others would grip a paintbrush or pencil. His canvas isn’t cotton or linen, but concrete and rebar. Yet Miller’s ...

(New York City) The medium was the message on February 4th when the global materials consultancy Material ConneXion hosted a celebration for the winner and 11 honorable mentions of its first annual ...

Flexible concrete cloth has made possible the swooping shapes of this console designed by Portland-based Neal Aronowitz. The Whorl Console is created using a patented material by UK company Concrete ...

German designer Florian Schmid experiments with the comfort of cloth and the cool, harness of concrete in a new series of stools. Concrete canvas, essentially cloth impregnated with concrete, hardens ...

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Need a semi permanent structure? Well this concrete cloth by UK-based company Concrete Canvas’s has just won material of the year 2009. Once the cloth shelter is erected the hardening process is then ...