New Pinterest board: shingles
A multipurpose building with a skin of chestnut shingles was popular last week, so we've created a Pinterest board full of architectural projects with facades covered in overlapping tiles. See our new Pinterest board»
A multipurpose building with a skin of chestnut shingles was popular last week, so we've created a Pinterest board full of architectural projects with facades covered in overlapping tiles. See our new Pinterest board»
A skin of chestnut shingles covers the facade of this multipurpose building at a school in the French town of Hostens by Dauphins (+ slideshow). More
This asymmetric Alpine cabin by Austrian architect Peter Jungmann has been named Ufogel because its owners think it looks like a cross between a UFO and a "vogel" - the German word for bird (+ slideshow). More
Cologne 2014: two shingle-clad houses converge to form this year's Das Haus home of the future installation at the imm cologne fair by Copenhagen designer Louise Campbell (+ slideshow). More
A triple-height gallery housing a collection of prized paintings is concealed behind the wooden shingle facade of this house in Stuttgart by German architecture studio (se)arch (photos by Zooey Braun + slideshow). More
Danish architects COBE and Transform have completed an aluminium-clad museum of maritime history in Norway with a zigzagging profile modelled on the shapes of local wooden buildings (+ slideshow). More
Curving iridescent structures resembling the scaled bodies of a pair of dragons slump over the top of this new wing created by French studios Agence Jouin Manku and DTACC at an office campus outside Paris (+ slideshow). More
This timber structure clad in recycled food packaging houses a temporary library and book exchange and was designed and built by architecture students in Cēsis, Latvia (+ slideshow). More
Rounded shingles create wooden scales across the walls of this small house in Hackney that architect Laura Dewe Mathews has built for herself (+ slideshow). More
A loosely curving wall of timber shingles spirals around this visitor centre that Dutch studio Emma Architecten has constructed beside one of the coastal batteries of Amsterdam's historic defence line (+ slideshow). More
This terrace of eight houses by Peter Barber Architects is clad with timber shingles to match the neighbouring fences and sheds of a housing estate in east London (+ slideshow). More
A blanket of golden shingles clads the new wing that London studio Hugh Broughton Architects have added to a Tudor-style museum in Maidstone, England. More
This scaly apartment block in alpine Slovenia appears to have had its corners sliced away to create triangular balconies. More
Couples visiting the British seaside town of Blackpool can tie the knot inside a shimmering golden wedding chapel by London architects de Rijke Marsh Morgan (dRMM). More
Plywood shingles create fish scales on the walls of a clothes store at Bondi Beach, Sydney, while spherical lights hang from the ceiling inside fishermen’s nets. More
Stuttgart architects (se)arch have completed a house in Germany with an exposed concrete base and cedar shingle-clad upper walls (photographs by Zooey Braun). More
Aluminium shingles resembling shiny fish scales cover this office and apartment block in Vienna by Austrian architects Superblock. More
Architects Foster + Partners have completed a hospital in Bath, UK, clad in aluminium shingles. More
Designer Robert Gaukroger has completed three wooden classrooms on stilts in a forest clearing in the Lake District, UK. More