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
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Glowing polycarbonate "lighthouse" designed to rejuvenate industrial stretch of River Thames
London-based studios DK-CM and The Decorators created this pop-up polycarbonate events space to test the waters for long-term cultural programming in the Thames-side town of Erith. More
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Family New York designs Brooklyn record and clothing store with ample "Instagram moments"
Architecture studio Family New York has completed this Brooklyn store for record label Fool's Gold, which features polycarbonate screens that frame a gold mirror and form niches that include a DJ booth. More
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Rediscovered attic space makes room for mezzanine level in Barcelona apartment
Ras Studio has overhauled an apartment in Barcelona, uncovering a hidden gabled ceiling where it could fit a polycarbonate-walled mezzanine level. More
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Translucent panels create glowing facade for São Paulo gallery by Metro
Polycarbonate panels run along the base of this gallery in São Paulo by local architects Metro, flooding the space with natural light during the day and transmitting light from within at night. More
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Seven buildings that feature walls of polycarbonate plastic
With its ability to improve a building's thermal efficiency and maximise natural light, polycarbonate plastic is becoming increasingly popular in architecture. We've rounded up seven of the best examples. More
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Bunyesc Arquitectes updates old Spanish house with new polycarbonate facade
Bunyesc Arquitectes has transformed a house in northeast Spain into a low-energy building by adding a new polycarbonate plastic facade. More
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Sliding polycarbonate panels open up facade of Catalonian house by H Arquitectes
Sliding polycarbonate screens are set in front of the windows covering the stepped facade of this Catalonian house by Spanish studio H Arquitectes. More
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Peris + Toral Arquitectes uses scaffolding to create temporary pavilion in Barcelona
Layers of polycarbonate, netting and metal mesh wrap the scaffolding structure of this temporary visitor centre, designed by Peris + Toral Arquitectes for a public square in Barcelona (+ slideshow). More
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Plural completes plastic-clad house in Slovakia with inner and outer layers
A small pool is slotted between the inner and outer layers of this house near Bratislava, which was designed according to Italian Renaissance principles by local firm Plural (+ slideshow). More
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Old textile factory renovated into food research studio for Ferran Adrià's El Bulli Lab
Spanish architecture practice Francesc Rifé Studio used polycarbonate sheets to divide an old textile factory into offices for the chef and staff behind the world-famous El Bulli restaurant (+ slideshow). More
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He Wei adds portable plastic rooms to youth hostel in a converted Chinese house
Architect He Wei has transformed a traditional rammed-earth property in China into a youth hostel, featuring house-shaped polycarbonate rooms-on-wheels (+ slideshow). More
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TBD uses contrasting materials to define his-and-hers art studio in the Hamptons
US firm TBD Architecture + Design Studio has created a studio building for a Hamptons couple that consists of two intersecting volumes clad in different materials (+ slideshow). More
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James Corner Field Operations installs over 30 "icebergs" in Washington DC museum
US studio James Corner Field Operations has created an installation for the National Building Museum in Washington DC that evokes a glacial landscape, with giant shard-like forms that jut upward and downward (+ slideshow). More
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Roovice transforms wooden warehouse into bagel shop with see-through walls
Architects office Roovice has converted a former warehouse in Miura, Japan, into a bagel shop, replacing the existing walls with polycarbonate panels to make the building more transparent (+ slideshow). More
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Factory-inspired "mobile ruin" will tour locations along Hadrian's Wall
Architects Matthew Butcher, Kieran Wardle and Owain Williams have built a factory-inspired mobile structure that will travel along Hadrian's Wall in northern England to provide a temporary residency for writers (+ slideshow). More
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UUfie completes light-filled Ontario medical clinic with translucent polycarbonate walls
Canadian architecture studio UUfie has inserted polycarbonate partitions into a medical clinic, part filling them with glass to create a hazy "horizon" (+ slideshow). More
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Asymmetric French house designed by GENS as a collage of "banal components"
One half of this house in northeast France has a tiled roof and rendered walls, while the other is clad in corrugated plastic and has a chamfered corner (+ slideshow). More
