Estudio Albar completes cork-clad Casa Eñe overlooking Spanish national park
Spanish practice Estudio Albar has used cork cladding to help this home near Madrid blend in with the scrub-like landscape of a neighbouring national park. More
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Distinctive house cladding from Dezeen's Pinterest
Over the last month, Dezeen's Pinterest followers have been searching for "house cladding" 70 per cent more than usual. We round up 10 popular projects from our Pinterest that feature homes with distinctive types of cladding.
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Polysmiths designs "beautifully sustainable" London house featuring cork-lined living spaces
Architecture studio Polysmiths used cork panels to clad internal and external surfaces at Cork House in east London, which was built using materials available during the Covid-19 lockdown. More
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Atelier SAD and Iveta Zachariášová create cork-clad house in Czech countryside
Architecture studio Atelier SAD and interior designer Iveta Zachariášová have created a cork-clad family home in the Czech Republic, which was embedded into a grassy ridge. More
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Officeu Architects unites cork-clad housing blocks in Belgium with communal living areas
Two cork-clad apartment blocks flank a renovated 18th-century building at the De Sijs co-housing project in Leuven, Belgium, designed by local studio Officeu Architects. More
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Ten interiors with textured cork-covered walls
From an artist's studio in Devon to a coffee bar in a Beijing hutong, this lookbook rounds up ten interiors with tactile walls that are clad or built with cork. More
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Inês Brandão Arquitectura completes Cork House in Portugal
Cork cladding creates a "camouflaged" upper storey at this home near Lisbon, Portugal, designed by local studio Inês Brandão Arquitectura. More
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Nate Dalesio clads his Westchester family house in corkboard panels
Architect Nate Dalesio has completed a cork-covered home for himself and his young family in New York, reusing the existing foundations but replacing almost the entire building. More
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Contaminar Arquitetos designs concrete and cork school in Portugal
Cork-clad concrete canopies cover large outdoor gathering spaces at a primary school on the outskirts of Leiria, Portugal, designed by local practice Contaminar Arquitetos. More
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The House of Wood, Straw and Cork is an eco-friendly residence in the Italian countryside
LCA Architetti has used cork, straw and timber to build a simple and sustainable house overlooking woodland in the small town of Magnago, Italy. More
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View eye-catching architecture and design made with cork on our new Pinterest board
See versatile uses of cork on our dedicated Pinterest board, including an artists studio that becomes inaccessible in high tide and a house in Berlin with a waste cork facade. Follow Dezeen on Pinterest ›
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Seven buildings wrapped in cork
Cork cladding is a renewable, resistant and insulating material that is harvested from the bark of the cork oak tree. Here are seven buildings clad in the increasingly popular building material. More
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Rundzwei Architekten wraps Berlin house in cork
Cork Screw House, designed by Rundzwei Architekten in Berlin, has a facade and roof clad with waste cork from the wine industry. More
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Studio Bark builds "fully biodegradable and recyclable" cork building
The Cork Studio, a garden building made almost entirely out of cork, has been constructed by Studio Bark as a building prototype that can be completely recycled, reused or composted. More
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Redshank artist's studio is a cork-clad cabin raised above a tidal salt marsh
Oil rigs, Maunsell forts and a wading bird provided the inspiration for this artist's retreat in a salt marsh on England's east coast, which becomes inaccessible when the tide comes in. More
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Surman Weston builds cork-covered studio for sewing and music-making
This cork-clad studio provides a shared workspace for a musician and a seamstress in the back garden of their north-London home. More
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Herzog & de Meuron and Ai Weiwei's Serpentine Gallery Pavilion paid homage to its predecessors
Movie: in the next instalment of our exclusive video series, gallery director Julia Peyton-Jones explains why Herzog & de Meuron and Ai Weiwei dug into the ground to create their 2012 Serpentine Gallery Pavilion. More
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ATKA Arquitectos uses cork cladding to minimise noise inside Casa Bonjardim
A bedroom at this remodelled and extended house in Porto, Portugal, has been wrapped in cork to shield it from the noise of a nearby school playground (+ slideshow). More
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Cork-clad house by Contaminar Arquitetos features a shadow-filled swimming pool
Daylight filters sparingly across the concrete walls of this indoor swimming pool, which protrudes from the cork-clad facade of a family house in Leiria, Portugal, by local studio Contaminar Arquitetos (+ slideshow). More
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José Carlos Cruz completes "world's first cork-clad hotel"
Portuguese architect José Carlos Cruz claims to have built the world's first cork-clad hotel, located amongst the olive and cork trees of Portugal's Alentejo region (+ slideshow). More
