Mexican studio Worc Studio has inserted a minimalist boba tea shop into a colonial building in Mexico City, where drinks are passed into a translucent vertical "tunnel". More about Translucent tube forms Mexico City boba tea shop by Worc Studio
Architecture studio FRPO has designed DH Palencia, a thermal power plant in Spain consisting of a concrete base topped by a lantern-like building and an adjacent tower. More about FRPO creates "cathedral of energy" with translucent polycarbonate tower
Italian studio Archisbang has transformed a farmhouse outside Turin into a guesthouse, inserting rooms with polycarbonate windows and doors into its existing brick structure. More about Archisbang converts Italian farm building into We Rural guesthouse
Local architect Julio Sanchez Arimayn has converted an industrial warehouse building into creative studios interspersed throughout two stories and punctuated by mezzanines in Buenos Aires. More about Julio Sanchez Arimayn transforms warehouse complex into creative studios in Buenos Aires
Informed by the greenhouses that once occupied the site, local architecture studio Hayhurst and Co added bamboo planting behind polycarbonate screens to the facade of a family home in London. More about Hayhurst and Co designs low-energy London home as "domestic-scale greenhouse"
Arched niches provide stations for tattoo artists at Atelier Eva, located in a former Brooklyn hardware store transformed by designer Alp Bozkurt. More about Alp Bozkurt creates "calming" interior for Brooklyn tattoo parlour
Local studio Atelier Industrial has created a minimalist office with walls made from polycarbonate panels within an existing warehouse in San Rafael, Argentina. More about Atelier Industrial installs minimalist office within warehouse in Argentina
A steel frame clad with aluminium and polycarbonate panels was designed to add an industrial feel to Bradbury Works, a retail and office building in Dalston, London, by local studio YN Studio. More about YN Studio wraps Dalston workspaces with translucent "X-ray" facade
Architectural studio LOHA has transformed an agricultural building in California into the light-filled Sandi Simon Center for Dance with polycarbonate walls that evoke the "ephemeral nature of performance". More about LOHA creates dance school within historic orange-packing building in southern California
Timber slats that mimic the surrounding treeline wrap around a shed in Akaroa, New Zealand, which was designed by architecture studio Fabric to transform into a light sculpture at night. More about Fabric creates timber and polycarbonate shed to double as light sculpture
NYC-based firm Garrison Architects has completed an animal shelter in Staten Island, which is wrapped in full-height translucent walls that provide even lighting conditions throughout the day. More about Polycarbonate-wrapped rescue shelter by Garrison Architects maximises light for animals
California studio AUX Architecture has tranformed and expanded a synagogue on LA's Westside to create the Glorya Kaufman Performing Arts Center for a nonprofit focused on children's welfare. More about AUX Architecture clads Los Angeles arts centre in polycarbonate panels
Architecture firm LOHA used "material layering" to create a light-filled workspace in California for photographers, videographers and other creatives involved in brand imaging for sportswear brand Nike. More about LOHA utilizes "material layering" for Nike Icon Studios building in Los Angeles
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 about Polycarbonate screens conceal bedrooms of House in Yanakacho by KACH
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 about Lucas Maino Fernandez completes Casa Un Patio in dense Chilean forest
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 about McCloy + Muchemwa adds timber-framed "orangery" to renovated garage
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 about Wutopia Lab creates chocolate-informed pavilion on Shanghai farm
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 about Java Architecture extends Parisian home with polycarbonate-clad tower
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 about Desert Botanical Garden in Phoenix enclosed with polycarbonate walls
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 about Tinted polycarbonate blurs cactus inside Santa Monica Greenhouse by Part Office