Architecture studio Wutopia Lab and Office ZHU have used layers of perforated metal to transform two disused buildings on the banks of Taizhou's Yongning River into a bright and modern bookshop. More
Estación San José is a concrete car park and co-working space topped by a public park, designed by Spanish architecture studio FRPO for Toluca de Lerdo in Mexico. More
Chinese architecture studio AOE has wrapped a conference centre near Jinan, China, in a layer of perforated metal screens. More
American practice CCY Architects has renovated and extended a house dating from the 1880s in Aspen, Colorado, adding a music room with a piano-themed perforated metal facade. More
The faceted North Greenwich Sculptural Screen by Neiheiser Argyros is designed to conceal the exhaust vents and fire escape of a London Underground station. More
Architecture studio Atelier Dau has created an infill extension with a perforated bronze facade for the refurbishment of a heritage-listed building in Sydney. More
Moxon Architects has restored and converted a listed building and a former police station in Fraserburgh, Scotland, adding a contemporary extension clad in weathering steel. More
The Bunhill 2 Energy Centre has started capturing excess heat from the London Underground to help warm over 1,000 buildings in the UK capital. More
A perforated metal screen shades the plywood interiors of a performing arts centre for a college in Victoria, Australia, by Branch Studio Architects. More
A perforated metal facade screens a round school in Denmark designed by Lundgaard & Tranberg Arkitekter around a central triple-height gym. More
White metal mesh filters daylight into the terrace of this extension of a 1950s detached home in Barcelona by Bonba Studio. More
Local Architecture Network has built a minimum security prison with a perforated metal facade of weathering steel in Nanterre that has a sports court in pastel hues. More
Perforated metal screens and plants cover the facade of a factory and office complex in Hanoi, Vietnam, designed by Studio VDGA for electronics manufacturer Star Engineers. More
A perforated metal facade covers the front of 3,500 Millimetre House, a wedge-shaped skinny house built on a 3.5-metre-wide site in Indonesia by AGo Architects. More
Pitsou Kedem Architects used patterned aluminium screens to create a ventilated outer skin for this house arranged around a courtyard in Bnei Ziom, Israel. More
The Imperial War Museum has a new archive in Cambridgeshire, England, called the IWM Paper Store, which is the most airtight building in the world. More
Melbourne architecture studio Fieldwork sought to create community-focused living spaces within a mesh-covered apartment block in the city's Fitzroy neighbourhood. More
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Bernard Tschumi Architects has completed the Exploratorium museum in China, which has giant industrial chimney-shaped exhibition spaces protruding from its perforated copper coloured exterior. More
French architect Jean-Paul Viguier chose white perforated metal to clad the three monolithic volumes of a secure cash-processing centre for a bank in Paris.
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