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 ...

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 ...

Steel is not usually known to rust but that only applies to certain types of steel. There are also cases when rusting is ...

Corten steel has been around for quite some time but only recently we started exploring all the design possibilities. Corten ...

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 ...

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 ...

Corten B is a weather resistant steel which is better suited for heavy and load bearing structures. The material forms its own protective layer when exposed to atmospheric elements. Essentially, the ...

Colleen Healey Architecture has renovated a 30-year-old home in Maryland, introducing large windows and a hybrid facade that mixes Corten steel with cedar shake. The Bethesda, Maryland home is called ...