A pavilion by Swedish studio In Praise of Shadows, originally created as a companion piece for a Venice Architecture Biennale design, has been placed in Stockholm's Rosendal Garden. More about Glulam and polycarbonate pavilion by In Praise of Shadows gets permanent Stockholm home
Architecture firm Sp(r)int Studio has restored, extended and added polycarbonate roof panels to a 1950s timber structure protecting a Viking-era archaeological site in Iceland. More about Sp(r)int Studio shelters Viking ruins in Iceland with polycarbonate roof
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
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
São Paulo's Estudio Flume and architect German Nieva have designed a beach hut on Brazil's Jaguanum Island for fishermen to sell food during the day and store boats at night. More about Estudio Flume builds fisherman's kiosk with translucent roof on Brazil's Jaguanum Island
A laboratory, a tennis pavilion and a kindergarten are among these ten translucent buildings with exteriors made from semi-transparent materials including polycarbonate and frosted glass. More about Ten translucent buildings with exteriors that allow light to pass through
Architecture studio La Shed Architecture has built a large agricultural barn with polycarbonate sheeting walls for a farm in Montérégie, Québec. More about La Shed Architecture creates translucent barn to give cows "a better quality of life"
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.
More about Studio Rain erects translucent flat-pack sauna on banks of Yarra River
Prague studio Ov-a Architekti has built a translucent house and restored a group of 19th-century timber buildings for the office of glass company Lasvit in Nový Bor, Czech Republic. More about Translucent glass house built alongside historic buildings for Lasvit's Czech Republic HQ
Paris studio Lemoal Lemoal Architectes has completed a half-timbered changing pavilion at the Garden Tennis Club of Cabourg on the north coast of France. More about Lemoal Lemoal Architectes builds translucent half-timbered tennis pavilion
Translucent polycarbonate panels encase the concrete and timber laboratory at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany, by Behnisch Architekten. More about Behnisch Architekten clads energy laboratory in translucent polycarbonate
A house with an asymmetrical roof on the Japanese island of Hokkaido has been renovated and extended by architecture studio Yoshichika Takagi + Associates. More about Yoshichika Takagi adds translucent facade to asymmetric house in Hokkaido
Belgian architect Indra Janda has used translucent polycarbonate shingles to create a garden room at her parent's home. More about Garden Room by Indra Janda features translucent white walls
Petr Stolin Architekt has wrapped a double-skinned translucent facade of fibreglass around the Nová Ruda kindergarten in the Czech Republic. More about Kindergarten in Czech Republic encased in two layers of translucent fibreglass
The Helsinki Central Library Oodi, designed by ALA Architects, is topped with large open-plan reading room under an undulating roof punctured by circular skylights. More about Helsinki Central Library Oodi topped with translucent "book heaven"
Tall shoots of bamboo rise through the central atrium of a new Apple Store completed by Foster + Partners in Macau, China. More about Foster + Partners unveils Apple Store in Macau with translucent stone walls and bamboo
Architect Steven Holl has built an exhibition and performance centre for Virginia Commonwealth University, which has been captured by Dutch photographer Iwan Baan. More about Steven Holl's Institute for Contemporary Art comprises sculptural blocks of zinc and translucent glass
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 about Translucent panels create glowing facade for São Paulo gallery by Metro
A+Awards: designed as a series of interconnected voids, this house in Singapore by local firm Park+Associates Architects won a 2016 Architizer A+Award. More about White translucent box forms Singapore residence by Park+Associates Architects
Chinese studio MAD has released visuals for its new concert hall in Beijing, which will be draped in a translucent fluted facade. More about MAD reveals plans for translucent China Philharmonic Hall in Beijing