Gold concrete

Maintaining the health and appearance of your concrete floor is not only the best way to ensure traffic safety, but it also preserves the aesthetic appeal

Inspired by Kintsugi, we take a look at a time when a gold crack concrete repair was used to fill cracks in a polished concrete floor, creating a unique effect.

Dribbles of gold fill the cracks in the floor of this apartment, designed by architecture studio TANK to replicate a traditional Japanese pottery technique

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brooklyn-based artist rachel sussman has re-imagined a traditional japanese art through a contemporary lens for her recent project 'sidewalk kintsukuroi'.

If our concrete floor cracks, we're doing this to it! It's concrete with liquid gold to fill the cracks!

How to polish concrete: Start by preping the existing concrete. Perform multiple phases of grinding with different grit diamond tooling. Apply a chemical hardener to densify the concrete.

It is a fact of life that buildings, as they age, inevitably fall apart. We Americans are not quite comfortable with this. We like everything to be shiny and new: we like all our buildings and our interior finishes to have the smooth sameness of youth. But the Japanese have developed a way of dealing with this. They have, in fact, embraced the idea that sometimes fixing broken things can make them even better and more beautiful than when they were new.

Oso Industries concrete floor with gold leaf applied accents.