Clothing company Vollebak has made its Full Metal Jacket from copper as the first step in developing intelligent and disease-resistant clothing in light of the coronavirus pandemic. More
Multidisciplinary collective Studio ThusThat explored the "invisible" material of copper as a low-carbon alternative to concrete when developing its This is Copper furniture collection. More
California-based design and architecture studio M-Rad proposes using the natural antiviral properties of copper alloy to create a travelling Covid-19 testing unit. More
Plants are expected to grow up the sides of this treehouse-inspired house extension in Melbourne, by AM Architecture. More
Australian architecture studio Wowowa built three cylindrical brick turrets with copper accents for a house in Melbourne. More
Scullion Architects has remodelled and extended a house in Dublin, adding a long glazed sun room with deep sill and copper parapet that opens on to a garden. More
A copper-clad "light scoop" sweeps through the interior of this home in Dublin, wrapping back on itself to cover a rooftop room overlooking a terrace. More
An expansive green roof, bird-friendly glass and copper accents are among the design elements that architecture firm FXCollaborative incorporated into an angular museum on Liberty Island in the New York Harbor. More
Sparano + Mooney Architecture has created a distinctive chapel in the American West that features copper siding, wooden walls and a large skylight that ushers in natural light. More
Carmody Groarke has completed the Windermere Jetty museum in England's Lake District, which houses a collection of boats in a lake-side cluster of copper-clad buildings. More
A copper facade frames the grey stone interior of this dining and retail space in Shanghai designed by local firm Office Coastline. More
Cement surfaces, wooden joinery, and copper detailing appear inside this Barcelona apartment, which Cometa Architects has designed to subtly draw upon maritime imagery. More
A funnel-shaped copper roof and subterranean swimming pool feature in this west London home, which Gianni Botsford Architects has slotted behind a 19th century townhouse. More
Artist Katrin Spranger's series of copper and glass sculptures made from plumbing parts and laboratory objects look to an imagined dystopian future. More
South Korean designer Kwangho Lee has inlaid cherry wood furniture with enameled copper panels made using an ancient Korean firing technique. More
Architect Ariel Claudet has introduced a network of copper pipes to an otherwise simple studio apartment in Paris, to help it stand out on Airbnb. More
A metal brise-soleil and a sculptural rooftop block allow a new performing arts centre by Tennessee studio Archimania to stand out in a revitalised district in Midtown Memphis. More
Eindhoven-based designer Lucas Muñoz has combined industrial steel ventilation pipes with a copper seat taken from a scrap yard to create this bulbous chair. More
Clerestory and dormer windows that face a nearby river intersect with a copper-clad roof, which wraps around onto the front and rear facades of this house in the Dutch city of IJsselstein. More
Reiulf Ramstad Arkitekter has revealed renderings for a copper ziggurat-like housing tower designed for the site of a former military camp in the Norwegian town of Ski Vest. More
