From a wall of mirrors to stacks of wooden building blocks, these façades make the most of creative materials.
Near Mexico City, the renovated façade of the Liverpool Department Store (by Rojkind Arquitectos) is intended to contrat the ‘grit and chaos of its surroundings.’
In Toyama, Japan, Café Kureon (by Kengo Kuma & Associates) appears to have been built of interlocking Jenga-style wooden slabs. Meanwhile, at a border crossing between Georgia and Turkey, the Sarpi Border Checkpoint (by J. Mayer H. Architects) appears if it was dropped in a matte white coating.
In Nantes, France, the Collective Housing Boréal (by TETRARC) is half covered in a type of wooden patchwork installation, which doubles as a passageway to access homes.
Lithuania’s Crematorium in Kédainiai (by Architektu Biuras G.Natkevicius ir Partneriai) is constructed lagely with concrete, with uneven windows forming a staccato pattern in the exterior walls.
Finally, Copenhagen’s Central Park is now home to the Mirror House (by MLRP), whose ‘funhouse’ facade has repalced what was a graffiti-ridden playground.
