Polycarbonate screens conceal bedrooms of House in Yanakacho by KACH
Translucent polycarbonate panels wrap around the upper floor of this house in Yanakacho, Japan, hiding the private areas from view while allowing daylight to enter. More
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Lucas Maino Fernandez completes Casa Un Patio in dense Chilean forest
Native ferns and trees grow within the centre of this home in Molco, Chile, which architect Lucas Maino Fernandez designed to establish continuity between the living spaces and the surrounding forest. More
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McCloy + Muchemwa adds timber-framed "orangery" to renovated garage
Architecture studio McCloy + Muchemwa has renovated a dilapidated garage in Norwich, England, adding a greenhouse extension with a bright-orange framework wrapped in polycarbonate cladding. More
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Wutopia Lab creates chocolate-informed pavilion on Shanghai farm
Architecture studio Wutopia Lab has created a cloud-shaped pavilion called the Shrine of Everyman on a shallow pool designed to look like melted chocolate near Shanghai, China. More
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Java Architecture extends Parisian home with polycarbonate-clad tower
French studio Java Architecture has renovated and extended a ruined stone house in Paris with a wooden tower that is clad in polycarbonate panels. More
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Desert Botanical Garden in Phoenix enclosed with polycarbonate walls
American firms 180 Degrees and CoLab Studio have created an educational facility and a greenhouse in the Arizona desert with polycarbonate facades that bring soft daylight indoors. More
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Tinted polycarbonate blurs cactus inside Santa Monica Greenhouse by Part Office
Sliding mesh walls are designed to open up the compartments of this greenhouse for cactuses and large plants, which architecture studio Part Office has added to an industrial-style office building in Santa Monica. More
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La Shed Architecture creates translucent barn to give cows "a better quality of life"
Architecture studio La Shed Architecture has built a large agricultural barn with polycarbonate sheeting walls for a farm in Montérégie, Québec. More
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Studio Rain erects translucent flat-pack sauna on banks of Yarra River
Australian art and architecture collective Studio Rain has installed a temporary sauna next to Melbourne's Yarra River that is prefabricated and off-grid, so it can be built, disassembled and reused without the use of heavy machinery.
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Gonzalez Haase AAS creates minimal interior for Berlin communications office
Architecture studio Gonzalez Haase AAS used aluminium and translucent sheets of polycarbonate to create the few fixtures and furnishings that appear inside this sparse Berlin office. More
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Rural Urban Framework builds tent-style community centre in Ulaanbaatar
The Ger Innovation Centre is a community centre built from timber and polycarbonate by design group Rural Urban Framework in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. More
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Behnisch Architekten clads energy laboratory in translucent polycarbonate
Translucent polycarbonate panels encase the concrete and timber laboratory at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany, by Behnisch Architekten. More
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Golden mesh shades a sports pavilion in Sydney
Golden polycarbonate mesh stretches across the canopy of this pavilion in Marsden Park, Sydney, designed by architecture practice CHROFI . More
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FAR adds studio with corrugated plastic door to artist's Los Angeles residence
This artist's studio, which architecture firm FAR has added to a Los Angeles house, includes a large plastic door that folds in half and a rooftop covered in blue tiles. More
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Richard John Andrews builds garden shed as his own architecture studio
Architect Richard John Andrews has built The Light Shed, a fibreglass-clad multi-functional shed in his east London garden to house his architecture studio. More
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Explore concrete, coloured glass and polycarbonate via our Pinterest boards
This week we're showcasing a range of materials on our Pinterest account, including concrete, coloured glass and polycarbonate plastic. Follow Dezeen on Pinterest ›
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Huge sliding door reveals courtyard at House in Sonobe by Tato Architects
Japanese studio Tato Architects has built a house in the town of Sonobe, Japan, with a sunroom that can be opened up to the garden by sliding open a huge corrugated polycarbonate wall. More
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Wutopia Lab wraps visitor centre with striped wall inspired by nautical shirts
Shanghai-based architecture studio Wutopia Lab has revamped a tourism company's entrance office into the Striped House visitor centre in Qinhuangdao, China. More
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Polycarbonate Dock Building by Michael Green Architecture glows on Vancouver beachfront
Vancouver firm Michael Green Architecture has built a boathouse for storing racing shells and sails and monitoring maritime activity, with translucent walls and garage doors. More
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Studio MK27 creates minimalist pavilion for Micasa campus in São Paulo
Brazilian firm Studio MK27 has used timber, polycarbonate panels and white metal sheets to form an austere building for Micasa, a contemporary furniture retailer based in São Paulo. More
