Dallas studio Wernerfield has completed a lakefront dwelling that features concrete and glass volumes, and a treehouse clad in pre-rusted steel (+ movie). More about Wernerfield uses concrete and weathering steel to create low-maintenance weekend home in Texas
Puzzles Architecture designed this weathering-steel extension for a barn in Belgium, converting it into an annex for the adjacent 18th-century farmhouse (+ slideshow). More about Puzzles Architecture adds rusty steel extension to an old Belgian barn
For the first time in 45 years, architecture students at Stockholm's Royal Institute of Technology have their own building on campus – a round block with weathering steel walls by Tham & Videgård Arkitekter (+ slideshow). More about Tham & Videgård's Stockholm architecture school features a curving skin of pre-rusted steel
Architect Henry Goss has completed a rusted steel and timber-clad extension to a house near Cambridge, England, two years after Dezeen published the hyper-realistic renderings that changed his life (+ slideshow). More about Henry Goss completes house that launched his career as an architectural visualiser
The oxidised-steel walls and prefabricated construction of this community library and sports centre near Newcastle, England, are influenced by the region's ship-building heritage (+ slideshow). More about FaulknerBrowns Architects adds weathering steel facade to new Hebburn Central community centre
Orange-hued panels of weathering steel encase the upper storey of this house in South Korea, which is elevated above the treetops of its mountain forest setting (+ slideshow). More about Seung H-Sang clads South Korean mountain house in pre-rusted steel
Graduate students of a Colorado university design-build programme have completed a pair of cabins on the Navajo reservation made of rusted steel and reclaimed barn wood (+ slideshow). More about University graduates design and build cabins on Navajo reservation in Utah
This oxidised-steel extension to an end-of-terrace Victorian house in east London peeks over the top of the adjacent brick boundary wall, which is interrupted by a matching steel gate (+ slideshow). More about HÛT uses pre-rusted steel for extension to Victorian brick house in London
Weathering steel – often known by the brand name Corten – continues to remain popular with architects. The pre-rusted metal, which is created when chemicals are used to speed up the oxidisation process, has recently been used to clad a Brisbane community centre and a mountaintop family retreat. The rust forms a weatherproof layer of protection. See all our stories about weathering steel »
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Panels of oxidised steel provide cladding and a colonnade for this Brisbane community centre by local architecture firm Kirk, referencing the rusty car wrecks once dumped on its site (+ slideshow). More about Pre-rusted metal panels clad Kirk's Fitzgibbon Community Centre in Brisbane
The mountain landscape of Washington's Methow Valley is the setting for this family retreat, conceived by architect Tom Kundig as four structures arranged "like a little campground" around a big rock (+ slideshow). More about Tom Kundig's Studhorse is a rural retreat for both snowy winters and scorching summers
A concrete floor merges with seating inside and outside this rusted steel and glass extension to a Victorian-style house in west London, designed by local architecture studio McLaren Excell (+ slideshow). More about McLaren Excell adds a weathered-steel and concrete extension to a London house
This library extension in the centre of Bruges is covered in sheets of pre-rusted Corten steel, deliberately contrasting the white plasterwork of the original building (+ slideshow). More about Studio Farris adds rusty steel extension to a library in Bruges
Milan Expo 2015: climbing frame meets bouncy castle inside Brazil's Expo pavilion, where Studio Arthur Casas and Atelier Marko Brajović have suspended a huge rope canopy over a garden (+ slideshow). More about Brazil's Expo pavilion contains a bouncy landscape of suspended rope
Pre-rusted steel clads this L-shaped extension to a farmhouse in rural Canada, giving the block a burnt orange colouring that complements the red brickwork of its neighbour (+ slideshow). More about Superkül extends Canadian farmhouse with rusty Corten-clad block
This house in the Utah desert is covered in sheets of rusty Corten steel to match the colour of the earth, while its four glazed gables are designed to take in views of the mountainous landscape (+ slideshow). More about Imbue Design completes a rusty steel dwelling in the Utah desert
A cylindrical tower clad in weathered steel forms part of this extension to a 19th-century stone cottage in the English countryside, designed to recall a gasworks that previously stood on the site. More about Chris Dyson Architects adds a rusty steel tower to a rural stone cottage
The remains of a former miner's residence in the Arizona desert provided the foundations for this tiny steel and concrete retreat by designer David Frazee (+ slideshow). More about Desert hideaway built among the ruins of an old miner's shelter in Arizona
A black box looms over the rusty steel facade of this complex of artists' studios and apartments, created by architecture studio Featherstone Young on the former site of a board-game factory in north London (+ slideshow). More about Featherstone Young replaces board-game factory with apartments and artists' studios
A balcony shaded by steel fins projects from the upper storey of this house in Northern Ireland, which architect and farmer Patrick Bradley built using four used shipping containers (+ slideshow). More about Grillagh Water House by Patrick Bradley is made up of four stacked shipping containers