SOM wraps Downtown LA courthouse in pleats of glass
Global firm Skidmore, Owings & Merrill has designed and engineered a federal courthouse for a sloped site in Downtown Los Angeles, which appears as an elevated cube with folded glass facades. More
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Pleated glass tower tops Viceroy Chicago hotel by Goettsch Partners
Chicago architecture firm Goettsch Partners has rebuilt the facade of the 1920s Cedar Hotel, and added a glass tower with a folded front to create more accommodation. More
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Studio Gang unveils plans for Arkansas Art Center overhaul
Chicago-based firm Studio Gang has revealed plans to add a series of glazed pavilions with pleated roofs to an arts centre in Arkansas, as part of a major renovation and extension project. More
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Kengo Kuma dresses Shanghai tower in pleated aluminium for Soho China
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
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Naoto Fukasawa designs stripped-back interior for Homme Plissé Issey Miyake store
Japanese industrial designer Naoto Fukasawa has transformed the interior of a concrete building in Tokyo into a space for fashion designer Issey Miyake's pleated menswear collection (+ slideshow). More
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David Adjaye uses crinkled concrete panels for Valextra concession at Harrods
Niches cut into zig-zagging concrete surfaces display leather accessories "like artefacts" at Valextra's David Adjaye-designed space in London department store Harrods (+ slideshow). More
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Iittala x Issey Miyake Collection unites "minimal design languages" of Japan and Finland
Stockholm 2016: Japanese fashion house Issey Miyake has created a range of homeware with Finnish brand Iittala, which includes pleated place mats, tote bags and cushion covers (+ slideshow). More
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Issey Miyake bakes fabric to pleat Spring Summer 2016 garments
Japanese fashion house Issey Miyake has created undulations across clothing in its Spring Summer 2016 collection by baking it in an oven (+ movie). More
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Francis Giacobetti photographs leaping dancers wearing Issey Miyake's pleated garments
These images by French photographer Francis Giacobetti of dancers wearing pleated Issey Miyake garments are on show at the Daikanyama T-site venue in Tokyo. More
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Iris van Herpen creates dresses from circles of lustrous metal gauze
Dutch fashion designer Iris van Herpen has formed garments from a fine steel mesh burnished in swirls for her Autumn Winter 2015 ready-to-wear collection. More
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Junya Watanabe folds textiles into mathematical patterns for Autumn Winter 2015
Voluminous origami-influenced garments and headdresses featured in Japanese fashion designer Junya Watanabe's catwalk show during Paris Fashion Week. More
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Jule Waibel recreates origami paper dresses in chiffon
German fashion designer Jule Waibel has turned her intricate pleated paper dresses into steam press templates for wearable fabric garments that expand and contract as the wearer moves. More
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Origami dresses by Jule Waibel designed for Bershka stores in 25 cities
German designer Jule Waibel has created 25 of her folded paper dresses for fashion brand Bershka's shop windows around the world (+ movie). More
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High Voltage Laboratory by ACXT Architects
Crinkled polished metal wraps around this electrical testing facility in northern Spain by ACXT Architects (+ slideshow). More
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Dezeen archive: pleats
Dezeen archive: pleats have cropped up in a number of architecture and design projects recently, so our latest archive features a collection of folded, fluted and crinkled design. See all our stories about pleated architecture and design »
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Autumn Winter 2013 collection by Jaimee McKenna
Layers of blue fabric pleated into origami-like patterns bounced down the catwalk at Central Saint Martins graduate Jaimee McKenna's Autumn Winter 2013 show. More
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House in Muko by FujiwaraMuro Architects
Huge vertical louvres give a pleated appearance to this family house in Kyoto by FujiwaraMuro Architects (+ slideshow). More
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Pleats.M by Hironaka Ogawa
Zig-zagging pleats embellish the facade of this wedding centre in Saitama, Japan, in our fourth recent story about the work of architect Hironaka Ogawa (+ slideshow). More
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Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum by Zaha Hadid Architects
A museum of contemporary art designed by Zaha Hadid for Michigan State University opened to the public this weekend (+ slideshow). More
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Miami Chapel by FR-EE
Mexican firm Fernando Romero EnterprisE (FR-EE) has won a competition to design a chapel in Miami with plans modelled on the pleated fabric gown of religious figure the Lady of Guadalupe. More