Thirty years ago, a botanist in Germany had a simple wish: to see the inner workings of woody plants without dissecting them. By bleaching away the pigments in plant cells, Siegfried Fink managed to ...

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Slatted timber panels break up spaces in this concrete-lined office for an advertising agency in Lisbon by local studio ColectivArquitectura (+ slideshow). The workspace for the Portuguese branch of ...

The old adage "don't judge a book by its cover" can – and should – be applied to many things. In architecture however, it's difficult, since our collective experience is often of the façade alone.