Leers Weinzapfel wraps water-cooling plant in a copper-coloured screen
Boston-based Leers Weinzapfel Associates has completed a water-cooling facility at Ohio State University that is sheathed in a copper-coloured aluminium screen (+slideshow). More
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Architecture 00's metal-clad community building in Sheffield provides facilities for local entrepreneurs
The perforated metal facade of this community enterprise building in Sheffield, England, was designed by Architecture 00 to eventually become a framework for climbing plants (+ slideshow). More
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McDonald's restaurant by Mei Architects boasts a golden facade and a spiral staircase
This McDonald's restaurant featuring a perforated golden facade and a grand spiral staircase was designed by Dutch firm Mei Architects to replace "the ugliest building in Rotterdam" (+ slideshow). More
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IwamotoScott and Leong Leong wrap a Miami parking garage in perforated screens
This parking garage in the Miami Design District features a textured facade of perforated metal panels, designed by architecture firms IwamotoScott and Leong Leong, with artist John Baldessari (+ slideshow). More
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Villa in the Czech mountains combines perforated metal with stone gabions
A skin of corrugated and perforated metal clads this villa in the Beskid Mountains, which sits on a wedge-shaped podium with stone-filled gabion walls (+ slideshow). More
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OFIS Arhitekti creates grid of crosses on the facade of Villa Criss-Cross Envelope
Perforated metal panels create a grid of Xs on the outer walls of this family house in Ljubljana by Slovenian studio OFIS Arhitekti (+ slideshow). More
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Perforated screens cast graphic shadow patterns over concrete house by Pitsou Kedem
Weathered steel screens cast chequerboard patterns of sunlight and shadow across the internal surfaces of this house near Tel Aviv by Israeli architect Pitsou Kedem (+ slideshow). More
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Yellow mesh box sits atop Ateliers O-S's truck-driving school building in France
Pupils at this school near Paris take lessons on driving large trucks in a building topped with a perforated aluminium canopy, designed to evoke the look of a petrol station (+ slideshow). More
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CUT Architectures adds golden walls to 1960s community centre
French studio CUT Architectures has revamped a 1960s community centre in a Paris suburb, adding perforated golden cladding that references the original yellow-painted facades (+ slideshow). More
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Aoki Jun and Associates complete perforated monogrammed facade for Louis Vuitton Tokyo
Japanese studio Aoki Jun and Associates redesigned the facade of the Louis Vuitton store in the Ginza district of Tokyo with a patterned and perforated shell based on the brand's monogram. More
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Erick van Egeraat's Roskilde power plant has a glowing perforated facade
Dutch architect Erick van Egeraat has completed a waste incinerator and power plant in the Danish city of Roskilde with a spotty perforated facade that lights up at night as if there's a fire burning within (+ slideshow). More
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Honeycomb perforations speckle facade of Campus Netzwerk office by Format Elf Architekten
Format Elf Architekten added a pattern of hexagonal holes to the long aluminium facade of this office building in Germany to control the amount of daylight entering the interior (+ slideshow). More
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Parisian sports hall by Ateliers O-S Architectes with bands of light on its walls
Bands of light shine through the perforated metal facade of this sports hall by French studio Ateliers O-S Architectes in north-west Paris (+ slideshow). More
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Bent by Chris Kabel with Abbink X de Haas
Dutch designer Chris Kabel has wrapped this house and studio in Amsterdam with a facade of perforated hexagons that catches the light like a hanging sheet of fabric. More
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The Library by COBE and Transform
This golden library in Copenhagen by architects COBE and Transform is meant to resemble a pile of books (+ slideshow). More
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Movie: Canada Water Library by CZWG
Movie: architect Piers Gough of CZWG and structural engineer Hanif Kara explain their design for Canada Water Library, a bronzed, hexagonal building on a constrained site in south London, in this movie by filmmakers Living Projects. More
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The Portal by Bureau A
Swiss architects Bureau A have created decorative steel gates to discourage nocturnal "illegal activities" in the entrance to their Geneva studio. More
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Red House at Red Hill by Inarc
Millions of tiny perforations are dotted across the rusted steel walls of this rural retreat in Victoria by Melbourne architects Inarc. More
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Dellow Day Centre by Featherstone Young
London architects Featherstone Young have completed this day centre for homeless people in east London. More
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Roses IES Cap Norfeu extension by Javier de las Heras Solé and Bosch Tarrús
Slideshow: the windows of this school extension in Girona, Spain, are concealed behind a perforated metal skin. More
