London-based Unknown Works designed a sound wall made from repurposed galvanised steel and added sheet-metal furniture and fittings to create Salt Salon, a "bold yet refined salon" in Borough Market. More about Unknown Works transforms Borough Market storehouse into futuristic hair salon
Berlin-based artist Martin Binder has installed the Balance Bench in Einbeck, Germany, which acts like a seesaw. More about Martin Binder designs seesaw bench to encourage "more playfulness and less polarisation"
Pirelli rubber flooring, raw MDF and galvanised steel define this renovated 1970s Madrid apartment, which the founder of local architecture studio Hanghar designed as his own home. More about Eduardo Mediero designs own apartment in Madrid "to rethink domestic space"
Local studio OPA has designed Plumbago, a garden shed-style restaurant in Mexico City's Cuauhtémoc neighbourhood, clad in corrugated polycarbonate sheet. More about OPA constructs "urban greenhouse" for Mexico City restaurant
The founders of Australian studio Zuzana & Nicholas have used a "robust palette" of stone, concrete and steel to transform a former workers' cottage in Brisbane into their own studio and house. More about Zuzana & Nicholas transforms Brisbane cottage into own home and studio
Italian studio Senoner Tammerle Architekten has created a mountain shelter in the Alps, distinguished by galvanised steel cladding chosen to reflect the hues of the sky. More about Senoner Tammerle Architekten places reflective mountain shelter in Italian Alps
Dezeen Showroom: Italian brand Urbantime has launched .015 Octopus, a colourful outdoor table-and-stool set created by design duo Basaglia + Rota Nodari. More about .015 Octopus by Basaglia + Rota Nodari for Urbantime
Bulbous steel tanks hang from where carcasses used to be suspended at the ÅBEN brewery in Copenhagen, which local studio Pihlmann Architects transformed from a slaughterhouse into a restaurant and bar. More about Pihlmann Architects creates sleek brewery in former Copenhagen slaughterhouse
Spanish studio Casa Antillón has incorporated galvanised steel elements throughout this hair salon in Madrid, which features bold mint-green ceilings sprayed with insulation foam. More about Casa Antillón pairs foam and steel in design of Madrid's Mood hair salon
A residential extension wrapped in galvanised metal is positioned over a garden and attached to an old carriage house in this project by Montreal studio Thomas Balaban Architecte. More about TBA creates elevated extension for Berri House in Montreal
A skinny house clad in black steel by Apollo Architects & Associates slots into a tiny plot of land in Tokyo, Japan, and features minimalist interiors. More about Skinny house squeezed into dense Tokyo neighbourhood
Architecture studio Lovell Burton has referenced surrounding hay sheds to create a house clad in galvanised steel panels on an agricultural paddock north west of Melbourne. More about Lovell Burton uses agricultural materials for shed-style Australian house
Designed to evoke the heat and scent of the freshly baked cheese tarts that it sells, this store in Japan, which just won Retail Interior of the Year at Dezeen Awards, is made from warm-toned galvanised metal. More about Fumitaka Suzuki designs a cheese tart shop made from gleaming metal
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
Baragaño Architects designed this prefabricated house made from galvanised steel, wood and slate in northwestern Spain to take only five hours to erect. More about Prefabricated house in rural Spain took just five hours to assemble
British firm Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios has worked with musician Bryan Adams to transform a disused factory in southeast Berlin into a mixed-use complex containing a cluster of creative studios. More about Feilden Clegg Bradley helps Bryan Adams create artist ateliers in refurbished Berlin factory
Yuichi Yoshida & Associates has completed a house in the suburbs of the Japanese city of Kanazawa with pared-back interiors and an irregularly layered structure that challenges the area's housing typology. More about Galvanised steel panels cover irregularly stacked volumes of Japanese townhouse
For this year's Stockholm furniture fair, a group of students from Helsinki's Aalto University presented a range of chairs made using only three thicknesses of galvanised steel rods. More about Aalto University students create 12 chairs using only steel rods
A climbing wall runs up one side of this corrugated metal-clad house in Jackson, Wyoming, by local architecture firm Carney Logan Burke (+ slideshow). More about Climbing wall provides roof access at Cache Creek Residence by Carney Logan Burke
This galvanised metal office block by Japanese studio Ninkipen! is slotted into a narrow gap between two Tokyo buildings, and has an interior with an intentionally unfinished appearance (+ slideshow). More about Ninkipen! wedges galvanised metal office for a construction firm between Tokyo blocks