Pale green ceramic tiles cover exhibition centre in China
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
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DROO completes London building with "crumpled paper" facade
Walls with the texture of scrunched-up paper feature on this residential and office building that architecture studio DROO has completed in east London. More
Perforated brick facade shades a house in Vietnam with a triple-height atrium
A house in Vietnam by Khuôn Studio is built around a triple-height atrium filled with plants and shaded by a perforated facade of grey brick. More
Stacked shipping containers form Stow-Away London hotel and wine bar
Design studio Doone Silver Kerr turned a stack of used shipping containers into a hotel and wine bar with a geometric facade of welded fins that function as sunshades. More
Cambodian school has a gridded facade that doubles as a jungle gym
The interchangeable steel grid of windows, shelves and lockers of a school in Sneung, Cambodia, designed by Orient Occident Atelier can also be used as a climbing frame. More
Kientruc O designs colourful kindergarten in Ho Chi Minh City
TTC Elite Saigon Kindergarten in Ho Chi Minh City by Kientruc O has a playful facade decorated with colourful patterns and irregularly shaped windows. More
Tehran apartment block by Fundamental Approach Architects features perforated brick screens
Fundamental Approach Architects has transformed the facade of an eight-storey housing block in Tehran using angular screens of perforated brick. More
Projecting windows "distort the facades" of Portuguese care home
Nuno Piedade Alexandre has completed a black extension to an elderly care centre in the municipality of Ponte de Sor, Portugal, which is covered with protruding windows. More
Kindergarten in Czech Republic encased in two layers of translucent fibreglass
Petr Stolin Architekt has wrapped a double-skinned translucent facade of fibreglass around the Nová Ruda kindergarten in the Czech Republic. More
Metropolitan Workshop covers tower of modular homes with glazed ceramic tiles
Metropolitan Workshop's tower of small modular homes in London is covered in a "chameleon-style" facade of glazed terracotta that changes colour in the different light conditions. More
Morphosis weaves textile research facility facade from reinforced fibre
The folded facade of the Morphosis-designed Kolon One & Only Tower in Seoul is made from a high tech fibre used to make bullet-proof vests. More
Pleated facades cover pair of Shenzhen skyscrapers by BIG
BIG has completed a pair of towers with rippling and folded facades to house the offices of a state-owned energy company in Shenzhen. More
Benni Allan gives his old school a facelift for just £1,000
Architect Benni Allan has used colourfully painted panels to create an all-new facade for his former school in Alicante, Spain, on a very meagre budget. More
London's Welbeck Street car park could be saved with alternative design by JAA
Architecture firm JAA has developed a proposal that would see a celebrated brutalist-era car park in London preserved – rather than demolished to build a new hotel. More
UNStudio set to build Dubai tower with "world's tallest ceramic facade"
UNStudio has unveiled plans for a Dubai skyscraper featuring a 300-metre-high ceramic-tile facade, which will be illuminated at night to make it look like the building is breathing. More
UNStudio uses colour to give identity to faceless South Korean skyscrapers
Dutch office UNStudio has devised a solution to the "impersonal homogeneity" of high-rises in many Asian cities – add colour and patterns to the exteriors. More
Danish office block by Sleth features cracked concrete facade and external stairs
Cracks in the concrete facade of this office block in Aarhus by Danish architecture practice Sleth provide glimpses of the building's illuminated interior. More
Perforated green cladding wraps university science institute by Cláudio Vilarinho
Irregularly shaped perforations in the pale green facades of this new university research institute in Portugal are inspired by the tubular molecules that form solar panels. More
Bernardes Arquitetura completes Rio office block fronted by perforated metal and plants
This office block in Rio de Janeiro features a triple-layered facade with a window wall, a screen of plants, and a thick lattice of perforated metal (+ slideshow). More
Vector Architects drapes steel mesh to create new entrance to M Woods museum in Beijing
Vector Architects has draped lengths of wire mesh over the entrance to a museum housed in a former warehouse in Beijing (+ slideshow). More