Increasingly stringent sustainability standards have helped push designers to work with more natural materials. This evolution has proved the viability of renewable resources like timber. A revived ...

Tile cladding didn’t become popular until the 1970s: Before then it was paint all the way. All that paint may have given rise to some pretty buildings (remember, pink was the cheapest color, so most ...

A new range of facade cladding tiles made of recycled PVC construction waste, designed by Dutch studios Overtreders W and Bureau SLA, has been used on a permanent building for the first time. Called ...

Expert cites lack of adequate building codes for exteriors of high-rises Dubai A lack of adequate and up-to-date building codes for the exterior construction of high-rise buildings is adding to ...

Materials companies Circular Matters and StoneCycling have used corn cobs – one of the world's most plentiful agricultural waste materials – to make interior cladding that is biodegradable and almost ...