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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON — It used to be only Superman who could see through concrete walls, but an exhibition at the National Building Museum shows that mere mortals can do it too. Called “Liquid Stone,” the show ...

WASHINGTON -- It used to be only Superman who could see through concrete walls, but an exhibit at the National Building Museum shows mere mortals can do it too. Called ''Liquid Stone," the show ...

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 ...

Litracon, or translucent concrete, has been around for a couple of years now, but its inventor, Hungarian architect ron Losonczi, is going one further by making a lamp out of it. Called the Litracube, ...