Raw concrete, Barbie:

The story:

SHOWstudio has collaborated with Roksanda Ilincic to create a new home for the toy doll, her tenth home since 1962. It features a cluster of brutalist structures, a forest of silver birch trees on the roof and a basement cinema. Unlike its plastic predecessors the house exists as a virtual environment.

Concrete is the ur-stuff of the city. Concrete is the reality. Concrete gets harder and harder.

Charles Mudede—who writes about film, books, music, and his life in Rhodesia, Zimbabwe, the USA, and the UK for The Stranger—was born near a steel plant in Kwe Kwe, Zimbabwe. He has no memory...