A perforated metal facade wraps this angular apartment building in Belo Horizonte designed to offer views from the inside while protecting the residents' privacy. More about Gisele Borges Arquitetura wraps tapered apartment block in perforated "second skin"
Iridescent aluminium sheets clad the rhomboid-shaped D2 building, a creative workplace by Cambridge studio Mole Architects that forms the latest addition to London's Design District. More about Mole Architects completes iridescent building in London's Design District
Irish studio Clancy Moore Architects has created The Writing Room in the garden of a Dublin home from recycled aluminium and red-stained beech. More about Clancy Moore Architects adds angular writer's hut to Dublin home
Chinese studio Group of Architects has created a restaurant topped with a canopy made from a series of aluminium pyramidal forms in the village of Suzhou, China. More about GOA tops Metasequoia Grove Restaurant with cluster of tree-informed pyramids
Gabled elements and corrugated aluminium siding feature in a family home that was designed by Canadian firm StudioAC to be "impactful without being indulgent”. More about Metal-clad boxes form Everden house by StudioAC in Toronto
Dutch design studio Loop Loop has built a machine that can apply colours and gradients to aluminium at a small-scale, affordable level. More about Loop Loop creates Magic Colour Machine for easy aluminium customisation
Naturehumaine has completed six new apartments in a historic Montreal neighbourhood, renovating an existing volume and adding a similar building to an adjacent, vacant lot. More about Naturehumaine places sculptural outdoor stairs on Montreal apartment addition
Scottish studio Loader Monteith has completed Ceangal House, a home on a working farm in South Lanarkshire with a layout and materials that were drawn from the original 19th-century buildings on the site. More about Loader Monteith uses reclaimed stone and red aluminium for Scottish home
White siding and a curvy aluminium screen make up the exterior of a residential building in Los Angeles designed by American firm Brooks + Scarpa. More about Brooks + Scarpa creates all-white Magnolia Hill Apartments in Los Angeles
Promotion: from space dividers to ceiling features, Kriskadecor creates bespoke hanging installations from colourful aluminium chains. Here, we've rounded up ten of the Spanish brand's most prominent projects. More about Ten installations by Kriskadecor that use chain curtains to dramatic effect
Architecture studio BCW Collective has perched an aluminium-clad bivouac shelter for hikers above an Alpine valley in northwest Italy. More about BCW Collective perches hikers' cabin above an Alpine valley in Italy
Dezeen promotion: aluminium gold-hued struts coloured by Sandalor will line the exterior of the HEKLA Tower, which Pritzker prize-winning architect Jean Nouvel's studio is designing in Paris. More about Coloured aluminium by Sandalor to adorn tower by Ateliers Jean Nouvel
A black holiday home by Chilean architecture studio Elton Léniz is lifted off the ground by wooden stilts to help reduce the building's impact on the earth. More about Elton Léniz perches Casa BB on hillside overlooking Chilean lake
American firm LOHA has completed a row of sculptural, metal-clad homes in Los Angeles that is meant to explore possibilities for the "small lot subdivision typology". More about Sloped walls form Canyon Drive housing complex by LOHA in Los Angeles
Dezeen Showroom: presented at Maison&Objet, Jean Couvreur's minimalist Fréquence shelf for Kataba was created as a multifunctional piece of modular furniture. More about Fréquence shelf by Jean Couvreur presented at Maison&Objet
American firms 180 Degrees and CoLab Studio have created an educational facility and a greenhouse in the Arizona desert with polycarbonate facades that bring soft daylight indoors. More about Desert Botanical Garden in Phoenix enclosed with polycarbonate walls
Nebbia Works has created a self-supporting pavilion from simple aluminium sheets at the V&A museum as part of the London Design Festival to highlight the material's sustainable potential. More about Nebbia Works constructs mono-material pavilion for V&A from low-carbon aluminium
Architecture studio Wutopia Lab and Office ZHU have used layers of perforated metal to transform two disused buildings on the banks of Taizhou's Yongning River into a bright and modern bookshop. More about Wutopia Lab and Office ZHU wrap bookstore in perforated facade to mimic clouds
Decorative aluminium screens designed to evoke neurons surround the Edmond and Lily Safra Center for Brain Sciences, completed by architecture studio Foster + Partners in Jerusalem, Israel. More about Foster + Partners wraps aluminium screens around university laboratory in Jerusalem
Design studio Rationale International — Masanori Design Studio has created an office in China with a curvilinear facade and undulating ceiling that draws on the qualities of fabric. More about Runxuan Textile Office features curvilinear aluminium facade