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Source: Herzog & de Meuron

Central Signal Box, Basel, Switzerland, 1999 designed by Herzog & de Meuron

The ground plan evolves from bottom to top into a rectangle. The copper strips cover the steps in the façade so that it becomes difficult to read the building‘s geometrical shape. It evokes something more organic and vulnerable, like a head or a brain, rather than a piece of technical equipment.  -- architect's web site

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Source: Leonardo Finotti archdaily.com

CREA-PB Headquarters, Campina Grande, Paraíba, Brazil, 2012 designed by MAPA

The precast concrete permeable “skin” does not resemble the usual glazed institutional buildings, impervious and impermeable. Instead its transparency and lightness give the whole building qualities recommended for the modern state institutions. -- ArchDaily

Source: Tom Arban archdaily.com

St. James Cathedral Centre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 2012 designed by architectsAlliance

The addition is sheathed in a screen of horizontal glass ribs carried on a stainless steel supporting structure. The structural steel columns that support the new building are set back from the glass wall, allowing them to be read as a design element. -- ArchDaily

Source: Marcel Van Coile archdaily.com

Technology Building in Leuven, Herestraat 49, 3000 Leuven, Belgium, 2013 designed by de Jong Gortemaker Algra

From the first floor upwards, perimeter walls are closed with externally insulated precast concrete components. The thermally insulated panels are finished with black acrylic lining. In front of those, an aluminium subframe supports 600 millimetre deep fibre cement vanes. The secondary façade serves as an additional layer of thermal protection and a shield from rainwater and sunlight. -- ArchDaily

Source: Thomas Jantscher archdaily.com

DEY House, Les Masses, Hérémence, Switzerland, 2013 designed by Cagna + Wenger Architectes

The Mélèze facade is reminiscent of carefully stacked timber beams of an age gone by. The precise design of openings is emphasized by the play of light and shadow across the different surfaces of the wood. Horizontal and vertical beams work in unison to shape and lock the frame. Where the frame ends, light simply takes its place. -- ArchDaily

Source: Kengo Kuma & Associates archdaily.com

Shun Shoku Lounge, Osaka, Osaka Prefecture, Japan, 2013 designed by Kengo Kuma & Associates

We piled up pieces of wooden panels to build the interior like topography. Various kinds of food-related items are laid out on this wooden ground. We expected that the chemistry would be just right for eating and the wooden stratum. -- ArchDaily

Source: Kaare Viemose archdaily.com

Dalarna Media Library, Högskolan Dalarna Akademin Språk & medier, Campus Falun, Högskolegatan 2, 791 31 Falun, Sweden, 2014 designed by ADEPT

The characteristic double facade with reflecting horizontal lamellae fronting a wood cladding is developed in collaboration with Danish artist Jeppe Hein. Instead of creating an isolated piece of art work Jeppe Hein and Adept has developed the competition design for the façade into a detailed and refined expression with an immateriality that mirrors its surroundings and the people in it with broken reflections. The lamellaes are made from highly polished stainless steel while their wooden background is a Siberian larch. -- ArchDaily

Source: Bartosz Makowski archdaily.com

Lublin City Stadium, Krochmalna, Lublin, Poland, 2014 designed by Estudio Lamela

Designed facade makes the building illuminated block which is a distinctive landmark. The elevation was designed in the form of longitudinal strips of metal panels (with a relatively large perforations) girding the building. -- ArchDaily