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 about M-Rad designs mobile Covid-19 testing unit concept from "virus-destroying" copper
Plants are expected to grow up the sides of this treehouse-inspired house extension in Melbourne, by AM Architecture. More about South Yarra House extension designed to look like a treehouse
Australian architecture studio Wowowa built three cylindrical brick turrets with copper accents for a house in Melbourne. More about Brick and copper turrets define Melbourne house by Wowowa
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 about Glazed sun room with copper parapet extends Dublin house
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 about ArchitectsTM cuts copper-clad "light scoop" through Dublin home
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 about Flowering meadow tops Statue of Liberty Museum in New York by FXCollaborative
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 about Sparano + Mooney creates sculptural Catholic chapel for Utah mining town
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 about Carmody Groarke completes boat museum on the shore of Windermere
A copper facade frames the grey stone interior of this dining and retail space in Shanghai designed by local firm Office Coastline. More about Genshang's Shanghai restaurant designed by Office Coastline as "gentle sequence of spaces"
Cement surfaces, wooden joinery, and copper detailing appear inside this Barcelona apartment, which Cometa Architects has designed to subtly draw upon maritime imagery. More about Barcelona apartment by Cometa Architects takes cues from nearby marina
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 about Gianni Botsford Architects tops House in a Garden with sweeping copper roof
Artist Katrin Spranger's series of copper and glass sculptures made from plumbing parts and laboratory objects look to an imagined dystopian future. More about Katrin Spranger's copper and glass objects imagine a future where water is scarce
South Korean designer Kwangho Lee has inlaid cherry wood furniture with enameled copper panels made using an ancient Korean firing technique. More about Kwangho Lee uses ancient enamelling process for collection of furniture
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 about Copper pipes create storage solutions for Paris studio flat by Ariel Claudet
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 about Copper screen stretches across front of Memphis ballet school by Archimania
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 about Lucas Muñoz creates Tubular furniture from ventilation pipes and scrap metal
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 about EVA Architecten's riverside house features red-brick walls and a patinated copper roof
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 about Reiulf Ramstad Arkitekter reveals visuals of tiered copper tower for Norway
Dubai-based designer Aljoud Lootah paid homage to the tradition of palm-leaf architecture in the United Arab Emirates with her latest furniture collection. More about Aljoud Lootah's furniture collection takes cues from traditional areesh structures
Single plant stems fit neatly into openings in these copper pipes, created by Brazilian designer Guilherme Wentz as minimal vases. More about Curved copper pipes form Solo Vases by Guilherme Wentz