Projecting windows "distort the facades" of Portuguese care home
Nuno Piedade Alexandre has completed a black extension to an elderly care centre in the municipality of Ponte de Sor, Portugal, which is covered with protruding windows. More
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Kindergarten in Czech Republic encased in two layers of translucent fibreglass
Petr Stolin Architekt has wrapped a double-skinned translucent facade of fibreglass around the Nová Ruda kindergarten in the Czech Republic. More
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Metropolitan Workshop covers tower of modular homes with glazed ceramic tiles
Metropolitan Workshop's tower of small modular homes in London is covered in a "chameleon-style" facade of glazed terracotta that changes colour in the different light conditions. More
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Morphosis weaves textile research facility facade from reinforced fibre
The folded facade of the Morphosis-designed Kolon One & Only Tower in Seoul is made from a high tech fibre used to make bullet-proof vests. More
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Pleated facades cover pair of Shenzhen skyscrapers by BIG
BIG has completed a pair of towers with rippling and folded facades to house the offices of a state-owned energy company in Shenzhen. More
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Benni Allan gives his old school a facelift for just £1,000
Architect Benni Allan has used colourfully painted panels to create an all-new facade for his former school in Alicante, Spain, on a very meagre budget. More
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London's Welbeck Street car park could be saved with alternative design by JAA
Architecture firm JAA has developed a proposal that would see a celebrated brutalist-era car park in London preserved – rather than demolished to build a new hotel. More
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UNStudio set to build Dubai tower with "world's tallest ceramic facade"
UNStudio has unveiled plans for a Dubai skyscraper featuring a 300-metre-high ceramic-tile facade, which will be illuminated at night to make it look like the building is breathing. More
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UNStudio uses colour to give identity to faceless South Korean skyscrapers
Dutch office UNStudio has devised a solution to the "impersonal homogeneity" of high-rises in many Asian cities – add colour and patterns to the exteriors. More
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Danish office block by Sleth features cracked concrete facade and external stairs
Cracks in the concrete facade of this office block in Aarhus by Danish architecture practice Sleth provide glimpses of the building's illuminated interior. More
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Perforated green cladding wraps university science institute by Cláudio Vilarinho
Irregularly shaped perforations in the pale green facades of this new university research institute in Portugal are inspired by the tubular molecules that form solar panels. More
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Bernardes Arquitetura completes Rio office block fronted by perforated metal and plants
This office block in Rio de Janeiro features a triple-layered facade with a window wall, a screen of plants, and a thick lattice of perforated metal (+ slideshow). More
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Vector Architects drapes steel mesh to create new entrance to M Woods museum in Beijing
Vector Architects has draped lengths of wire mesh over the entrance to a museum housed in a former warehouse in Beijing (+ slideshow). More
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Tehran office building by AWE Office features faceted windows and louvres
Faceted recesses in the stone-clad facade of this office building in the Iranian capital, Tehran, contain wooden louvres that provide shade to the large windows behind (+ slideshow). More
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Rhode Island holiday home by Bernheimer Architecture features pyramid-like skylights
A+Awards: the next project in our series on winners from this year's A+Awards organised by US site Architizer is a holiday home for a Brooklyn-based family in Rhode Island, with a charred-timber facade (+ slideshow). More
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Snøhetta designs Beirut bank featuring chequerboard walls and rooftop gardens
Snøhetta has won a competition to design the headquarters of Banque Libano Francaise in Beirut, the firm's first project in Lebanon. More
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Denizen Works adds burnt wood cladding to Modernist house in London's Highgate
Charred larch slats now cover the exterior of this Modernist house in north London, thanks to a "macabre" upgrade intended by architecture studio Denizen Works to reference the nearby Highgate Cemetery (+ slideshow) More
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Tropical Space uses perforated brickwork to build riverside pottery studio in Vietnam
Vietnamese studio Tropical Space has completed a cube-shaped sculpture workshop for artist Le Duc Ha, which hides an elaborate bamboo shelving grid behind its perforated brick walls (+ slideshow). More
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Perforated screens cover Barcelona marina buildings by SCOB Architecture and Landscape
SCOB Architecture and Landscape has built a restaurant and an office block in Barcelona's Port Vell Marina, and covered both buildings with perforated white screens (+ slideshow). More
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Recycled ice cream tubs cover walls of elevated Microlibrary by Shau
Two thousand ice-cream tubs form the walls of this small community library in Bandung, Indonesia, and some of them have been perforated to display a subtle message (+ slideshow). More
