Cork cladding, curved ceilings and mirrored surfaces animate this holiday home in Portugal, renovated by Atelier Local to feel spacious despite its compact plot. More about Atelier Local redesigns House in Valongo to "feel larger than it actually is"
Architectural studio BLDUS has created a slender home in an urban alleyway called Brown House, which features a rooftop farm and the use of "healthy" building materials such as cork, bamboo and hemp. More about BLDUS creates alley house in Washington DC with cork cladding
Design studio Nina+Co and London practice ROAR Architects have wrapped a 1970s house in Tottenham in cork, turning a "passive facade into a community touchpoint". More about Nina+Co and ROAR Architects swaddle London house with cork cladding
Reggio School, a project that combined experimental eco-architecture with a radical approach to learning, is the 2022 instalment in our 21st-Century Architecture: 25 Years 25 Buildings series. More about Andrés Jaque's Reggio School was the most significant building of 2022
Spanish architects Teo Nuñez and Almudena Ribot have built the Casa Pádel apartment block in Madrid, combining a cross-laminated timber structure with cork cladding. More about Núñez Ribot pairs cork with mass timber at Casa Pádel in Madrid
Architecture studio Gurea Arquitectura Cooperativa has completed The Cork and Wood House, a home in Spain that is finished with a raw palette of materials. More about Gurea Arquitectura Cooperativa clads rural Spanish house with cork blocks
An angular black volume sits atop a cork-clad ground floor to form Casa 9, a home that Italian studio LCA Architetti has added to a valley on the border between Italy and Switzerland. More about LCA Architetti nestles angular cork-clad home into Italian valley
Spanish practice Estudio Albar has used cork cladding to help this home near Madrid blend in with the scrub-like landscape of a neighbouring national park. More about Estudio Albar completes cork-clad Casa Eñe overlooking Spanish national park
Over the last month, Dezeen's Pinterest followers have been searching for "house cladding" 70 per cent more than usual. We round up 10 popular projects from our Pinterest that feature homes with distinctive types of cladding.
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Architecture studio Polysmiths used cork panels to clad internal and external surfaces at Cork House in east London, which was built using materials available during the Covid-19 lockdown. More about Polysmiths designs "beautifully sustainable" London house featuring cork-lined living spaces
Architecture studio Atelier SAD and interior designer Iveta Zachariášová have created a cork-clad family home in the Czech Republic, which was embedded into a grassy ridge. More about Atelier SAD and Iveta Zachariášová create cork-clad house in Czech countryside
Two cork-clad apartment blocks flank a renovated 18th-century building at the De Sijs co-housing project in Leuven, Belgium, designed by local studio Officeu Architects. More about Officeu Architects unites cork-clad housing blocks in Belgium with communal living areas
From an artist's studio in Devon to a coffee bar in a Beijing hutong, this lookbook rounds up ten interiors with tactile walls that are clad or built with cork. More about Ten interiors with textured cork-covered walls
Cork cladding creates a "camouflaged" upper storey at this home near Lisbon, Portugal, designed by local studio Inês Brandão Arquitectura. More about Inês Brandão Arquitectura completes Cork House in Portugal
Architect Nate Dalesio has completed a cork-covered home for himself and his young family in New York, reusing the existing foundations but replacing almost the entire building. More about Nate Dalesio clads his Westchester family house in corkboard panels
Cork-clad concrete canopies cover large outdoor gathering spaces at a primary school on the outskirts of Leiria, Portugal, designed by local practice Contaminar Arquitetos. More about Contaminar Arquitetos designs concrete and cork school in Portugal
LCA Architetti has used cork, straw and timber to build a simple and sustainable house overlooking woodland in the small town of Magnago, Italy. More about The House of Wood, Straw and Cork is an eco-friendly residence in the Italian countryside
See versatile uses of cork on our dedicated Pinterest board, including an artists studio that becomes inaccessible in high tide and a house in Berlin with a waste cork facade. Follow Dezeen on Pinterest ›
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Cork cladding is a renewable, resistant and insulating material that is harvested from the bark of the cork oak tree. Here are seven buildings clad in the increasingly popular building material. More about Seven buildings wrapped in cork
Cork Screw House, designed by Rundzwei Architekten in Berlin, has a facade and roof clad with waste cork from the wine industry. More about Rundzwei Architekten wraps Berlin house in cork