Japanese architect Kentaro Ishida has completed a steel-plated house on the outskirts of Tokyo, featuring an asymmetric pitched roof designed to maximise sunlight for residents (+ slideshow). More about Kentaro Ishida adds stripy steel skin to asymmetric house in Japan
This shed-inspired house in rural Victoria, Australia, features a low-maintenance fire-resistant facade of corrugated steel that also helps to reflect heat, keeping the building cool in summer (+ slideshow). More about Corrugated steel provides durable facade for rural Australian home by Glow Design Group
This tiny two-room house, measuring just three metres wide, is raised above a grassy slope on metal legs in Hohenecken, Germany (+ slideshow). More about Micro house by Architekturbüro Scheder is raised off the ground on stilts
Galvanised steel panels create fuss-free facades for the blocks of this Stockholm housing complex by Joliark, concealing all gutters and tidying away window frames. More about Metal-clad housing by Joliark features flush detailing and boxy balconies
Slideshow: one of Antony Gormley's sculptures appears to guard the entrance to the British artist's new galvanised steel workshop, designed by London architects Carmody Groarke. More about Artist Workshop by Carmody Groarke
London architects Tonkin Liu have completed a wind-powered metal flower beside the River Mersey in England. More about Future Flower by Tonkin Liu
Photographer Roland Halbe has sent us his photographs of a chemical laboratory at the Universidad de Alcalá by Madrid architect Héctor Fernández-Elorza. More about Chemical Laboratory Building by Héctor Fernández-Elorza
Jordi Badia of Barcelona practice BAAS Architects has completed the CAP Salt 2 health centre in the town of Salt near Girona, Spain. More about CAP Salt 2 health centre by BAAS Architects