Liquid Stone Exhibition Goes Virtual

The Lafarge North America-sponsored exhibit, Liquid Stone: New Architecture in Concrete, closed January 29 after 18 months at the National Building Museum.

The Lafarge North America-sponsored exhibit, Liquid Stone: New Architecture in Concrete, closed January 29 after 18 months at the National Building Museum. A virtual version will remain on the Museum’s Web site, www.nbm.org, while a program with translucent-concrete inventor °ron Losonczi helped mark the exhibition closing. In addition, a book titled Liquid Stone: New Architecture in Concrete, based on the exhibition, will be released by Princeton Architectural Press in February. Liquid Stone attracted more than 110,000 visitors, as well as substantial mass-media attention. The exhibition featured innovative works of architecture from around the world along with cutting-edge products such as translucent concrete and Lafarge’s ultra-high performance concrete, Ductal. Organizers credited the exhibition with shedding new light on a common building material that is all too easily taken for granted.