Porte de Vanves student residence accommodates 67 units in a bow-shaped building located on a small, triangular plot. The street-facing facade consists of several superimposed flat walls, which gives ...

Look at the walls of most modern buildings. Sleek. Smooth. Sometimes glossy, sometimes matte. That’s not regular paint or plaster. Most of the time, it’s aluminium cladding panels. These panels are ...

Fancy Facades: The latest panels, cladding, & screening. Pictured: KME Architectural's TECU DESIGN_PUNCH perforated and embossed screening (Courtesy KME Architectural). AN found the latest additions ...

New manufacturing methods have made cladding and paneling more structurally sound and less cumbersome to install. These systems are highly customizable and are made to last from season to season.

Following the deadly June 14 London Grenfell Tower fire that has killed at least 79 people, a nationwide investigation determined that dozens of U.K. high-rise buildings are potentially unsafe. On ...

Grenfell Tower material producer Arconic has claimed it is immune from liability in a £2.73m High Court legal action over ...

For this 4-story residential building containing 11 low-energy apartments, the architects set out to meet all the environmental requirements set by the City of Paris, particularly those in regard to ...

Alcoa Architectural Products of France has launched a new aluminium cladding panel that cleans both itself and the surrounding air. “These cladding features mean the building is no longer just a ...

Tests similar to this one, showed the dangers of cladding as early as 2004, it has emerged Leaked test results suggest the government and construction industry had early evidence of the dangers posed ...

The housing block is a typical four-storey unit. Apart from the cast-concrete ground slab, all the internal floor slabs, walls and external cladding are factory-made, 150mm-thick, precast-concrete ...

grenfell tower's cladding design manager wrote 'they will be gone rather quickly in a fire!' about the building's facade panels more than two years before the catastrophic blaze, an inquiry has heard.