Ten mirror-covered buildings that reflect their surroundings
From bubble-like workspaces in an ancient Chinese hutong to an art installation in the Swiss mountains, we've rounded up 10 of the best mirrored buildings from Dezeen's archive.
Hutong Bubble 218, China, by MAD
While renovating a courtyard house in one of Beijing's historic hutongs, MAD added two curved workspaces to the roof that are enclosed by smooth, mirrored stainless steel.
The studio's aim was to introduce a contemporary aesthetic to the site without "interrupting the existing urban fabric", so reflective steel cladding was chosen to help the new structures blend in with it.
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Maggie's Southampton, UK, by AL_A
Polished stainless steel cladding with a hammered surface wraps around portions of Maggie's Southampton, a cancer care centre designed by AL_A to camouflage within the surrounding gardens. The distortions in the surfaces create impressionistic reflections of the planting while also preventing the optical illusion of continued space, stopping birds from colliding with the structure.
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Mountain and Cloud Cabins, China, by Wiki World and Advanced Architecture Lab
This pointed spaceship-like cabin is one of 18 dwellings that Chinese architecture studios Wiki World and Advanced Architecture Lab designed for a hotel scattered on a mountainside in Yichang.
They are all built from cross-laminated timber in various shapes and sizes, and were finished with reflective cladding t...
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