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 about UNStudio set to build Dubai tower with "world's tallest ceramic facade"
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 about UNStudio uses colour to give identity to faceless South Korean skyscrapers
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 about Danish office block by Sleth features cracked concrete facade and external stairs
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 about Perforated green cladding wraps university science institute by Cláudio Vilarinho
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 about Bernardes Arquitetura completes Rio office block fronted by perforated metal and plants
Vector Architects has draped lengths of wire mesh over the entrance to a museum housed in a former warehouse in Beijing (+ slideshow). More about Vector Architects drapes steel mesh to create new entrance to M Woods museum in Beijing
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 about Tehran office building by AWE Office features faceted windows and louvres
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 about Rhode Island holiday home by Bernheimer Architecture features pyramid-like skylights
Snøhetta has won a competition to design the headquarters of Banque Libano Francaise in Beirut, the firm's first project in Lebanon. More about Snøhetta designs Beirut bank featuring chequerboard walls and rooftop gardens
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 about Denizen Works adds burnt wood cladding to Modernist house in London's Highgate
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 about Tropical Space uses perforated brickwork to build riverside pottery studio in Vietnam
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 about Perforated screens cover Barcelona marina buildings by SCOB Architecture and Landscape
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 about Recycled ice cream tubs cover walls of elevated Microlibrary by Shau
Strips of perforated aluminium give a pleated appearance to the facade of this Shanghai tower designed by Japanese architect Kengo Kuma for property developer Soho China (+ slideshow). More about Kengo Kuma dresses Shanghai tower in pleated aluminium for Soho China
Hot pink and orange paintwork accentuate niches in the wooden facade of this school designed by French office Dominique Coulon & Associés for the Parisian suburb of Colombes (+ slideshow). More about Bark cladding and clashing colours create "joyful chaos" in school by Dominique Coulon & Associés
At the touch of a button, the chunky marble walls that surround this house in India divide up into spinning and sliding panels, revealing a more lightweight glass facade behind (photos by Edmund Sumner + slideshow). More about Sliding and spinning walls animate facade of house by Matharoo Associates
The facade of this house in the Spanish town of Novelda is divided into three sections that are each angled to make the most of the available views and sunlight (+ slideshow). More about La Errería designs a facade that angles in and out for House F&M in Spain
Skidmore, Owings & Merrill has completed a 55-storey tower in Beijing with exterior glass panels that function as prisms, capturing and refracting daylight (+ slideshow). More about Trapezoidal glass panels create prismatic facades for SOM's Beijing skyscraper
LP2 Architecture Studio has used rotating panels and recessed openings to create flexible spaces for this office block in Tehran, where contemporary architecture is experiencing a boom (+ slideshow). More about LP2 completes Tehran office block with louvred wooden facades
Golden boxes fronted by balconies make up the exterior of this student housing block in Paris by Hamonic+Masson & Associés, which also features a secret garden and nesting areas for birds (+ slideshow). More about Hamonic+Masson completes student housing with a facade of golden cubes