Plans for windowless student dorms in California attracted widespread criticism last week, but Munger Hall is not the first building to keep natural light at bay. Our latest roundup features ten fenestrationally challenged buildings with glassless facades.

House in Toyonaka by FujiwaraMuro Architects
Japanese studio FujiwaraMuro Architects designed this L-shaped house in Osaka as a series of boxes with only small openings allowing light and air inside.
The idea was to ensure the occupants' privacy, replacing windows with glass inserts throughout the building.
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The Imprint by MVRDV
This indoor entertainment complex in Seoul, designed by Dutch studio MVRDV, is entirely windowless.
Instead, The Imprint's glass-fibre reinforced facade imitates the surrounding buildings of the Paradise City hotel resort, which serves South Korea's biggest airport. Find out more about The Imprint ?

Alpha House by UABI
There are plenty of shapes and materials but no windows on the front of this two-storey house in the Brazilian city of Londrina, designed by local architecture firm UABI.
The back of the house makes up for the windowless front with three floor-to-ceiling windows of varying forms.
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Seaside House by Shinichi Ogawa & Associates

One full side of this house in the Japanese prefecture of Kanagawa, dreamt up by Shinichi Ogawa & Associates, is made entirely of featureless white concrete.
The opposite s...