A new range of facade cladding tiles made of recycled PVC construction waste, designed by Dutch studios Overtreders W and Bureau SLA, has been used on a permanent building for the first time. More about Pretty Plastic shingles made from recycled PVC windows and gutters are "first 100 per cent recycled cladding material"
A sloping wall clad in slim white tiles hides the formerly problematic facade of this minimal patisserie in Hangzhou, China, which has been designed by Say Architects. More about Curved tiled wall guides customers inside Hangzhou's Angelot patisserie
Architecture studio Space Encounters built a tile-clad office building on stilts in Amersfoort, the Netherlands, above an existing brick warehouse. More about Space Encounters puts office building on stilts above brick warehouse
Architecture practice Playze and design firm Schmidhuber covered the Ningbo Urban Planning Exhibition Center in eastern China in a skin of pale green glazed ceramic tiles. More about Pale green ceramic tiles cover exhibition centre in China
AOA Architects has clad the stepped gables of a playful apartment block in South Korea with glossy red and white tiles in a reference to the video game Minecraft. More about Blocky Minecraft-themed apartment building in Seoul clad with pixel-like tiles
Five tile-clad towers make up this house in southeast England, designed by ACME as a modern interpretation of a hop-drying kiln. More about ACME reinterprets the traditional Kentish oast house as a modern family home
London designer Adam Nathaniel Furman has applied his signature colourful aesthetic to a tiled entrance and reception area for the maternity centre at the Chelsea and Westminster Hospital. More about Adam Nathaniel Furman brightens up London maternity centre with "flowerburst" mosaic
Beige tiles and pale pink window shutters cover the exterior of this concrete secondary school in Romanshorn, Switzerland. More about Pale pink shutters shade classrooms of a concrete school in Switzerland
Architecture studio TAA Design has made the green roof of this house in Quang Ngai, Vietnam, from stepped planters finished in red plaster and tiles. More about TAA Design tops red house in Vietnam with a stepped vegetable garden
Wonder Architects have used pale green ceramic tiles to clad a house extension in Yangqing, China, that mirrors the form of its traditional neighbours. More about Green ceramic tiles cover extension of a house in rural China
Dezeen promotion: Italian tile manufacturer Ceramiche Refin has released a collection of porcelain tiles that take design cues from the clarity of glass surfaces. More about Ceramiche Refin launches Vetri collection of glass-effect tiles
Architect Mariana de Delás created a green-tile garden to keep this apartment – which was formerly a motorcycle workshop – out of sight from the busy streets of Palma de Mallorca. More about Palma Hideaway in Mallorca is obscured from the street by a tiny tiled garden
Kazakhstani designer Enis Akiev has developed a method for turning single-use plastic packaging into tiles, by emulating the organic process of rock formation. More about Enis Akiev makes marbled tiles from post-consumer plastic waste
Russian architect Eduard Eremchuk used Tetris-like orange modular furniture on wheels to solve the problem of limited space in a tiled cafe in Rostov-on-Don. More about Cow-print tiles and Tetris-style orange furniture feature in Russian cafe
Design studio Casa Josephine arranged yellow, red and deep-blue tiles to create the "emphatically geometrical" interior of this advertising office in Madrid. More about Casa Josephine transforms motorcycle workshop into brightly-hued advertising office
Architecture studio Vora has created an interplay of old and new inside these five Barcelona apartments, by arranging walls to highlight the original patterned tile floors. More about Decorative tiled floors reveal original room layout of renovated Barcelona apartments
The white-tile interior of this Aesop store has been designed by Mlkk Studio to match the materiality of buildings dotted around Taipei's Daan district. More about White tiles camouflage Aesop store against Taipei's urban landscape
The Bio-Integrated Design Lab at the Bartlett School of Architecture has created a modular system of tiles inlaid with algae that can filter toxic chemical dyes and heavy metals out of water. More about Bio-ID Lab designs DIY algae-infused tiles that can extract toxic dyes from water
Dezeen promotion: Japanese material and product manufacturer Lixil has announced the evolution of its Ecocarat tiles by Inax to celebrate the collection's 20th anniversary. More about Lixil expands "breathable" Ecocarat tile collection for 20th anniversary
Dezeen promotion: Italian ceramic tile manufacturer Ariostea has released a collection of tiles that mimic the iridescent quality of precious onyx stones. More about Ariostea designs tile collection inspired by iridescent onyx stones