Casa Delpin concrete panels white facade

From metal to brick, these materials present clever facade solutions for enjoying nature from the privacy of your own home.

These beauties are a great reminder why architects love the hard stuff.

If you’re the blaming type, you might fault Le Corbusier for making the white facade so utterly irresistible.

Concrete may seem brutalist to some, but consider its many applications: buff, polished, waxed, and turned into panels for a facade. Here are nine Dwell homes that make incredible use of the material.

While we can all heed that age-old axiom, "Never judge a book by its cover," we're swooning over the façades of these homes.

After three rainless weeks a welcome tropical shower blew into San Juan, Puerto Rico, one afternoon last May, awakening Casa Delpin with the sound of trickling water.