Eight practical and beautiful concrete bathrooms around the world

Eight practical and beautiful concrete bathrooms around the world

Our most recent lookbook explores 8 loos with striking concrete interiors, ranging from a Mexico City rest room that also options a rough-hewn stone bathtub to a British isles toilet designed all over a “concrete sculpture”.

Concrete is a practical choice for rest room interiors given that the product is drinking water-resistant, hardwearing and quick to clean. It can also be a decorative solution – the substance has a rugged, industrial seem that provides lavatory interiors a brutalist really feel.

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Concrete bath and Crittal screen in bathroom of Untiled House extension by Szczepaniak Astridge in London
Picture by Nicholas Worley

Untitled House, Uk, by Szczepaniak Astridge

This residential extension in south London was built around a “concrete sculpture”, a concrete-walled void that travels by the household from the kitchen up to the lavatory.

Here, concrete was poured in situ to form the foundations, floors, partitions and ceilings. A monolithic bathtub, also produced from concrete, provides to the brutalist feel of the toilet.

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Concrete bathroom in Cloister House
Photograph by Givlio Aristide

Cloister Property, Australia, by MORQ

The pretty much-windowless Cloister Home in Perth surrounds a plant-filled courtyard and was intended to have a sense of privacy.

Built from thick concrete, its interior partitions only have thin, arrow-slit openings. In the home’s rest room, the rammed-concrete end of the partitions was left uncovered and softened with a flooring produced from wooden slats and a purple hardwood ceiling.

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Sunken Bath by Studio 304
Photograph by Radu Palicica

Sunken Bathtub, British isles, by Studio 304

Sunken Bath is a glazed bathroom that area studio Studio 304 designed for a London flat to make house for Japanese ritual bathing – a rest apply.

The shower and toilet are divided from the concrete bathtub, which is enclosed by glass partitions and a glass roof and gives views of the peaceful bamboo-stuffed back garden.

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House and Studio Lambeth by Carmody Groarke
Image by Gilbert McCarragher

Property and Studio Lambeth, United kingdom, by Carmody Groarke

Architecture office Carmody Groarke built Residence and Studio Lambeth to slot within the fabric of an old warehouse. Its style brings together a brick “skin” with a clean concrete inside.

A concrete toilet unit finished with a huge shadow gap beneath the ceiling divides one particular of the home’s 4 bedrooms. This is contrasted with a attractive marble sink and copper-hued faucets and details.

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Concrete bathroom in Habitat 67 building
Image by Maxime Brouillet

Unit 622, Canada, by Rainville Sangaré

Moshe Safdie’s popular brutalist Habitat 67 in Montreal is home to this condominium, which is a person of 158 residences in 354 stacked, prefabricated concrete “containers”.

Its toilet functions a shower fronted by dichroic glass that changes color relying on which angle it’s considered from. Vertical concrete wall tiles had been designed in a nod to the brutalist building’s framework.

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Bathtub in Mexico City concrete bathroom
Photo by Edmund Sumner

Pedro Reyes Dwelling, Mexico, by Pedro Reyes and Carla Fernandez

This Mexico Town household was created principally from concrete, utilized in different degrees of coarseness, and was made for and by a Mexican sculptor and fashion designer.

In the lavatory, the sink was moulded into a shape that resembles pottery and the bathtub is designed from stone to seem like a rock pool. The rough-hewn styles match the tough experience of the concrete walls and ceiling.

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Concrete bathroom in Costa Rica
Photograph by BoysPlayNice

Artwork Villa, Costa Rica, by Formafatal and Refuel Works

The Artwork Villa is nestled into the Costa Rican jungle and was made to reference the tropical landscape and properties by architect Paulo Mendes da Rocha, which are recognised for their monolithic concrete forms.

The concrete partitions and ceilings in its rest room match the big stone bathtub and distinction the wood utilised for the floor. Big floor-to-ceiling home windows offer views of the verdant countryside.

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Concrete bathroom in New York apartment
Photograph by Amy Barkow

S-M-L Loft, US, by BC–OA

Located in a forged-iron creating courting from 1880 in New York’s Soho district, the S-M-L Loft draws on its previous as a warehouse.

The useful, industrial vibe of the flat can also be found in the lavatory, which has solid walnut millwork paired with raw concrete panels and white porcelain tiles.

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This is the hottest in our lookbooks series, which gives visible inspiration from Dezeen’s archive. For more inspiration see former lookbooks that includes interiors that confirm beige does not have to be boring, tidy kitchens with slick storage options and save-conserving pocket doors.