Design studio Niceworkshop has created furniture for recycling brand Format made from aluminium formwork used for pouring the concrete on large-scale buildings, which is on show at Milan design week. More
Urlo Studio has completed an "aesthetic and functional" gym and multi-sport club with a glass and aluminium pavilion with a composite facade in Ecuador. More
New York design gallery Friedman Benda has presented 13 furniture pieces including some made from scrap aluminium by Brazilian design practice Estúdio Campana. More
Dezeen Showroom: created by American brand Bestcase, the Foundation bar stool is designed to celebrate raw aluminium and simple manufacturing techniques. More
Dezeen Showroom: the Australian coastline informed the curved, textural metal forms of the Bell lighting collection, created by design studio Aftr for lighting brand Rakumba.
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Australian studio Lahznimmo Architects has completed Powerhouse Castle Hill in northwest Sydney, a shed-like storage facility wrapped in corrugated aluminium and concrete. More
Chinese studio Wutopia Lab has used wave-shaped roofs of blue aluminium and translucent fabric to transform an industrial yard in Shanghai into a mixed-use cultural space. More
As part of the Collectible design fair in Brussels, Swedish firm HAHA Studio has launched a range of futuristic furniture and lighting that lays bare the digital fabrication technique through which it was created. More
Large wooden beams frame the interiors of L'échappée, a multimedia library in France designed by local practice Atelier WOA as an alternative to "institutional and cold" public buildings. More
Swedish designers Gustav Winsth and Alexander Lervik have unveiled a chair that was designed in virtual reality and brought to life by skilled metalworkers who normally work on motorcycles. More
Italian studio Peter Pichler Architecture has designed the angular headquarters for manufacturing company Bonfiglioli in Bologna, with a slanted roof covered in pleated mesh. More
Dutch design firm Studio ThusThat has developed a series of furniture and homeware that was cut from a single sheet of aluminium "crust" – an offcut of the smelting process. More
Although more commonly associated with industrial applications, furnishings made of cool-toned steel, aluminium and chrome are infiltrating every room of the home. This lookbook rounds up eight living spaces that show how it's done. More
American studio SOM has created a "vertical campus" for the US Department of Transportation in Massachusetts that features aluminium fins on its sides and a landscape installation by designer Maya Lin. More
Perforated metal sheets form the facade of this renovated bookshop in Shanghai, China, which local studio Wutopia Lab has filled with 10,000 metres of shelving. More
Designer David Taylor has created Knuckle, a duo of lighting designs for Swedish furniture brand Hem that are characterised by their crimped corners made by forcibly bending square aluminium tubing. More
Australian designer Tom Fereday has created a chair made out of recycled aluminium that aims to celebrate the industrial aesthetic of the material. More
New York architecture studio REX has completed the "most automated" performance building in the world at Brown University's campus in Providence, Rhode Island. More
Promotion: metal-chain manufacturer Kriskadecor is challenging the perception of aluminium as a cold material with a series of projects where it is used to brighten an interior. More
Norwegian designer Lars Beller Fjetland explains how his fully recyclable Bello! bench created for Hydro aims to showcase the possibilities of extruded aluminium in this exclusive video produced by Dezeen. More