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 ...

The mix of natural stone shaped like jigsaw and plywood core makes the exterior walls of the house stand out. This is the house that designer Manmit Jabbal, director at Ikon Designs, has finished ...

Blending in with its urban context or standing out to draw attention, a façade tells a building’s story. It is an expressive medium through which we engage with architecture, defining first ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them anytime. Following a deadly residential tower fire in London, Australian authorities have been told an audit of high-rise buildings with cladding ...

HPL (High Pressure Laminate) panels are made of Kraft paper impregnated with phenolic resins, subjected to heat and pressure. A decorative layer with synthetic polymer allows the sheets to have ...

SINGAPORE - There are now three manufacturers of external cladding panels - Alubond, Bolliya and Bolli-core FR - on the blacklist for failing local fire safety tests. When Alubond was first singled ...