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There are a number of materials that are used primarily indoors. Cork is one of them. It can be out of sight, used as a backing for floor coverings, for instance, or exposed, turned into a tackable wall surface. For a single-family house in Berlin rundzwei Architekten applied cork in an... John Hill, Thomas Geuder

The Eco Brooklyn Show House is a traditional brick rowhouse with a difference: it's fronted by a living wall. Completed late last year, the Eco Brooklyn Living Wall hopes to set a precedent for the facades of residential buildings in the borough of Brooklyn – and beyond.... John Hill

Two recent Swiss buildings ― an apartment building in Winterthur and villas at Bürgenstock Resort in Obbürgen ― use Air-Lux sliding wall systems to open up their interiors to the elements and to views of their surroundings. John Hill

The name Glass Cabin may seem like a misnomer when taking a first glance at the family cabin designed and built by Steven Risting of Indianapolis, Indiana. But glassy it is, with expansive views from inside when the sliding wood wall panels are open. Steven Risting answered a few questions about... atelierRISTING

Matter to Matter, an interactive installation by designer Arthur Analts that invites visitors to draw on a wall covered with condensation, is a highlight of Latvia's contribution to the 2018 London Design Biennale, taking place at Somerset House until 23 September. John Hill

The name of this house in Santa Fe, New Mexico, is an apt one, referring to the 125-foot-long skylight that casts shadows upon the adjacent board-formed concrete wall. The wall also serves to divide the parts of the house in plan: living spaces, bedrooms and porch on the skylight side; kitchen,... Specht Architects

Kennedy & Violich Architecture's Tozzer Anthropology Building at Harvard University, featured last year, includes an angled "digital brick wall" over the entrance. The... Kennedy & Violich Architecture

The party wall office adapts an aging, dingy row house to create a narrow new work space full of light. banduk*smith*studio

The name given this residential renovation is a fitting one: A main feature of Los Angeles architect Dan Brunn's renovation of a 1975 Frank Gehry house is hidden behind a large pivoting wall. In addition to the "Hide Out," the project includes a sculptural wood stair that references... Dan Brunn Architecture

Synthesis Design + Architecture and IBM Watson Analytics have collaborated to merge data analytics, parametric modelling, and digital fabrication to create Data Moiré, a large scale interior feature wall recently completed for the IBM Watson Experience Center in San Francisco, California. Synthesis Design + Architecture

A curved glass wall, large canopy, and signage combine to give the emergency department of the Methodist South Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee, a clear presence, something it previously lacked. The expansion was designed by brg3s architects, who answered a few questions about the... brg3s architects

Sheltered behind a basalt wall, this horizontal box of a house unfolds in a processional transition from the busy outer world to the serenity of the main garden, with its views of the mountains beyond. nabil gholam architects

The 2016 Serpentine Pavilion designed by BIG - Bjarke Ingels Group opens to the public in London's Kensington Gardens on Friday, accompanied by four 25sqm Summer Houses designed by other architects. John Hill

A palette of brick, wood, glass and translucent wall panels defines the enclosure of Neumann Monson Architects' elegantly simple Career Academy of Pella in Iowa. The building is the first piece – and a very promising...

The competition-winning proposal by architects from VOA Architecture and engineers from Werner Sobek New York envisions the Pan Am Building (now the MetLife Building) at 200 Park Avenue in New York City covered in a patterned, double-glazed curtain wall. John Hill

Studio Twenty Seven Architecture and Leo A Daly formed a joint venture to realize “La Casa,” the first permanent supportive housing project for the District’s Department of Human Services. A lively facade of glass and two types of wall panels makes the building...

LATITUDE’s pavilion proposal for the Chicago Architectural Biennial is a multifunctional space featured with a few key elements: a platform to elevate the pavilion one foot above street level; a cantilever roof to create an expressive space together with aluminum leaves; and a movable wall... LATITUDE

Cc-studio was invited, together with two other offices, to take part in a mini-competition initiated by the municipal supervisor Don Murphy, the director of VMX architects. cc-studio

Architect Kazuhiko Kishimoto of the Kanagawa-based firm acaa designed this wood-framed ranch-style home in the snowy city of Kitakami, Iwate Prefecture. In order to adapt the home to the region’s harsh winter climate, Kishimoto says he took particular care in designing the structure and...

The Wall Street Journal reports on the headquarters of online game developer NetDragon Websoft in Changle, China, which is "shaped like Star Trek's Enterprise." John Hill

Designed by Akio Nakasa of naf architect & design, Arch Wall House makes use of the curved walls that are a common theme in much of the firm’s work. Here, an arch both separates and links two homes: a single-story residence for a woman living alone, and a two-story residence for a...

According to the Wall Street Journal, Norman Foster's design of 2 World Trade Center "could be dramatically altered under a proposal being discussed by 21st Century Fox Inc. and News Corp," which would bring in architect Bjarke Ingels. John Hill

Resembling a simple glass-box office building from a distance, up close the 50-story FKI Tower reveals a simple yet ingenious wall section that incorporates solar panels angled to absorb more of the sun's rays than a strictly vertical surface. Further, a number of atriums and a rooftop...

This addition to a 100-year-old bungalow in Bay Village, Ohio (a small town west of Cleveland), is particularly striking for the way it melds architecture and landscape through the plants covering its wall and folded roof. Further, a sunken terrace helps to bring sunlight into the...

This home for a family of four designed by Naoi Architecture & Design Office sits in a farming-district-turned-suburban-subdivision in Shiga Prefecture. In order to enable a lifestyle in harmony with nature for the outdoors-loving residents, the architects kept the surrounding landscape...

Magma architecture has revealed the design for the Toronto 2015 Pan American Game sport shooting venue. The jagged upper edge of the outer perimeter wall is reminiscent of the Canadian national emblem: the maple leaf. magma architecture

One of the highlights of the 2014 Venice Biennale's Elements of Architecture exhibition is Barkow Leibinger's Kinetic Wall, appropriately found in the Wall Room and signaling the way forward through its moving parts and elastic skin. John Hill

In the Elements of Architecture portion of the Venice Biennale, Rem Koolhaas has defined 15 fundamental elements, such as ceilings, floors, stairs, and walls. The latter has a particularly impressive kinetic skin wall by Germany's Barkow Leibinger. John Hill

In two years Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM) will celebrate its 80th anniversary, having been founded on January 1, 1936. In the ensuing decades the firm has expanded from two offices in the United States to eleven offices on three continents, while becoming one of the most recognizable and... John Hill

Artist Greg Shapter has created an installation on the brick party wall of the Domus showroom in Clerkenwell, London, that resembles architect Zaha Hadid. The catch is that "I Am Zaha" can only be grasped fully from one spot, which the artist has marked with an "X" on the... John Hill

The Wall Street Journal gives its 2013 architecture and design honors to David Adjaye and Thomas Woltz. John Hill

To mark the release of its Dekton "ultra-compact surface," Cosentino is holding an exhibition (until October 31) at the Center for Architecture in New York City. The show highlights Daniel Libeskind's "Beyond the Wall" sculpture being realized at Cosentino's global... John Hill

The first impression upon seeing Behnisch Architekten's John and Frances Angelos Law Center at the University of Baltimore is the way the boxy volumes are covered in different types of glass. There is a checkerboard frit that responds to the library and a rainscreen of structural glass and... John Hill

On June 27 MoMA PS1 unveiled the 14th Young Architects Program installation in the courtyard of its Long Island City, Queens, home. Party Wall is designed by CODA and will be in place until the end of August.  John Hill

Paul Rudolph's Orange County Government Center is saved, but Bertrand Goldberg's Prentice Women's Hospital will face the wrecking ball. John Hill

The Edge House marks itself in the mountains of Northwest Connecticut with two curved walls in vertical cedar boards, one gray and one red. The latter acts as the house's spine and its circulation, also sheltering the occupants from prevailing winds. The gray wall is broken by rectilinear...