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Schemata Architects reimagines machiya house with metal awnings for Uchida Shōten HQ

January 16, 2026 Cajsa Carlson 0

Local studio Schemata Architects drew on historic townhouses when creating this office along Japan’s Tōkaidō road, which features a corrugated metal facade with large window shutters that open “as if breathing”. The office building is located in Fujisawa City on the historic Tōkaidō road, which played a significant role during Japan’s Edo era. Drawing on

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Kengo Kuma to renew Michelin museum on industrial site in France

January 14, 2026 Starr Charles 0

Architecture studio Kengo Kuma and Associates has unveiled plans to renovate and expand French manufacturer Michelin’s interactive museum in Clermont-Ferrand, France. Held within an industrial hangar on a former Michelin manufacturing site, the Michelin Adventure museum opened in 2009 and is being updated in line with a wider renewal of the company’s manufacturing district, the

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Ten ways that architects used weathering steel in 2025

January 10, 2026 Nat Barker 0

Weathering steel has been a trendy choice among architects for many years, but as this diverse roundup of projects completed in 2025 shows, any reports of it going out of style are greatly exaggerated. EMIT Technologies, USA, by CLB Architects Almost all the weathering steel that wraps this building was custom fabricated and engineered on

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Industrial port informs metal exterior of home in Perth by Philip Stejskal

January 5, 2026 Jon Astbury 0

The Fremantle cargo port informed the corrugated metal cladding and steel-framed awnings of Henville Street House, a family home in Perth, Australia, by local studio Philip Stejskal Architecture. Located on a compact urban site, Philip Stejskal Architecture designed the home to have a close relationship to its garden while avoiding overlooking. It is organised around

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Large metal roof tops off-grid home on Japanese island by Sakai Architects

January 4, 2026 Jon Astbury 0

A large corrugated metal roof topped by a triangular skylight shelters the timber-lined interiors of Amami House, an off-grid home in Japan designed by local studio Sakai Architects. Named after its location on Amami Ōshima, an island in the Amami archipelago off Japan’s southern coast, the 119-square-metre home was designed for the founder of Sakai

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Waechter Architecture references red wine for cladding of Oregon winery

November 6, 2024 Ben Dreith 0

Portland-based Waechter Architecture used cladding with a red colour derived from a popular wine blend to create an angular winery on a site devasted by clear-cutting in Oregon. Corollary Wines wanted to create a base of operations and space for entertaining on an abandoned site in Oregon’s Willamette Valley that had been cut clear of

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Rørbæk og Møller Arkitekter clads Danish university extension in gold-toned metal

October 14, 2024 Jon Astbury 0

Copenhagen studio Rørbæk og Møller Arkitekter has extended Skylab at the Danish Technological University with a cluster of gold blocks arranged around a skylit workshop. Located on the university’s Linburg campus, the centre provides an additional 3,000 square metres for Skylab – a research and innovation hub for woodwork, metalwork, 3D printing and robotics. Taking

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Eight characterful kitchens with sleek metal details

September 22, 2024 Rheanna Hopkins 0

Our latest lookbook focuses on eight homes fitted with metal kitchens, from a flat in London informed by fish-and-chip shops to a 19th-century apartment with period details in Paris. While stainless steel has long been a material associated with restaurant kitchens due to its durability and functionality, it can bring a sleek, modern feel to residential

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Eight characterful kitchens with sleek metal details

September 22, 2024 Rheanna Hopkins 0

Our latest lookbook focuses on eight homes fitted with metal kitchens, from a flat in London informed by fish-and-chip shops to a 19th-century apartment with period details in Paris. While stainless steel has long been a material associated with restaurant kitchens due to its durability and functionality, it can bring a sleek, modern feel to residential

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Neil M Denari Architects aims for “immediate singularity” with purple LA office building

August 29, 2024 Ben Dreith 0

American studios Neil M Denari Architects and HLW have created an office structure in Beverly Hills equipped with solar panels and a distinctive “aubergine”-coloured facade. 9000 Wilshire is a single-tenant office building in Los Angeles’ Beverly Hill neighbourhood. Positioned on a low-rise commercial strip surrounded by residential, the building utilises a distinctive cladding language with

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