Digital House is an aluminium-clad micro home in Germany
German architects Julian Krüger and Benjamin Kemper have created Digital House, a micro home that can be built without using nails or screws and was designed to be easy to disassemble. More
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Hydro celebrates sustainable designer partnerships at London Design Festival
Promotion: aluminium and renewable energy company Hydro is exhibiting its collaboration with designer Lars Beller Fjetland at the London Design Festival, exploring how partnerships can help make the metals industry more sustainable. More
Juan Campanini and Josefina Sposito clad Buenos Aires co-op in aluminium
Local architecture studio Juan Campanini, Josefina Sposito has concealed an urban apartment building behind a simple aluminium facade in Buenos Aires, Argentina. More
Ten functional and elegant products and furniture designs made from metal
Dezeen Showroom: we've selected 10 products and furniture designs made from stainless steel, aluminium and chrome-finished metal listed on Dezeen Showroom. More
ElasticoFarm raises house on stilts around central void in Italian park
Architecture studio ElasticoFarm has created a house on stilts around a suspended void nestled in the trees of a private park in Cambiano, a town to the southeast of Turin in northern Italy. More
Loop Loop develops "world's first plant-based aluminium dying process"
Dutch design studio Loop Loop has pioneered a process of adding colour to aluminium using pigments made from plants rather than petroleum. More
YN Studio wraps Dalston workspaces with translucent "X-ray" facade
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
Mexico City museum features "living facade" made of thousands of aluminium panels
Local architect Fernanda Ahumada and studio FR-EE have completed The National Biodiversity Pavilion in Mexico City with a facade of moving aluminium panels that responds to light and wind. More
In Situ Studio cuts "hoop" opening in cantilevered welcome centre roof
Local architecture firm In Situ Studio wrapped an art museum visitor centre in Raleigh, North Carolina with darkened steel and cantilevered a roof with an aperture over its patio. More
Lualdi's design process opens up "creative possibilities with materials and textures"
Promotion: Italian door brand Lualdi says that 2023 marks a new focus in its design process as it aims to create products with experimental combinations of textures and materials. More
Marc Fornes designs bulging coral-shaped pavilion for Louis Vuitton
Designer Marc Fornes presented an organically shaped pavilion at Milan design week to accompany the most recent Objets Nomades furniture collection by fashion house Louis Vuitton. More
Bello! bench by Lars Beller Fjetland for Hydro
Dezeen Showroom: Norwegian designer Lars Beller Fjetland has created a bench informed by the design of pasta for aluminium producer Hydro. More
Gluck+ places colourful facades on affordable housing block in Brooklyn
US studio Gluck+ has completed Van Sinderen Plaza, a social housing project that stretches along an elevated subway line in a low-income district and is meant to be "a gateway for the community". More
Chybik + Kristof creates aluminium research centre to "realise new spatial possibilities" of modular architecture
Architecture studio Chybik + Kristof has completed the angular Modular Research Centre in the Czech Republic, which is constructed from aluminium and aims to reframe ideas behind prefabricated construction. More
"Heart that captures a moment in time" forms centrepiece of set design for rapper Dave
London-based Tawbox studio intended to reflect our fractured world by creating a set design featuring an aluminium heart that shattered and came back together during recent shows by British rapper Dave. More
Gisele Borges Arquitetura wraps tapered apartment block in perforated "second skin"
A perforated metal facade wraps this angular apartment building in Belo Horizonte designed to offer views from the inside while protecting the residents' privacy. More
Office architecture
Office architecture
Mole Architects completes iridescent building in London's Design District
Iridescent aluminium sheets clad the rhomboid-shaped D2 building, a creative workplace by Cambridge studio Mole Architects that forms the latest addition to London's Design District. More
Home offices
Home offices
Clancy Moore Architects adds angular writer's hut to Dublin home
Irish studio Clancy Moore Architects has created The Writing Room in the garden of a Dublin home from recycled aluminium and red-stained beech. More
GOA tops Metasequoia Grove Restaurant with cluster of tree-informed pyramids
Chinese studio Group of Architects has created a restaurant topped with a canopy made from a series of aluminium pyramidal forms in the village of Suzhou, China. More
Metal-clad boxes form Everden house by StudioAC in Toronto
Gabled elements and corrugated aluminium siding feature in a family home that was designed by Canadian firm StudioAC to be "impactful without being indulgent”. More