Steel is not usually known to rust but that only applies to certain types of steel. There are also cases when rusting is encouraged and appreciated. We’re talking about corten steel, also known as ...

Following the popular Rusty House in London, we've collected 10 residential buildings with striking Corten steel facades in this roundup. Among the buildings featured are a micro-home in Lithuania, a ...

Montreal architect Paul Bernier has completed a home clad in blackened timber and weathering steel on the shores of a lake in rural Quebec. The two-storey residence overlooks Lac Charlebois, one of ...

Exposed raw steel wraps around this small house in the Czech Republic, renovated by OK PLAN ARCHITECTS. Covered with a vibrant layer of pre-rusted sheet metal (CorTen), the Rusty House is a minimalist ...

Cindy Rendely recently completed her first residential project using Corten steel, although some people weren't sure she was actually done. Corten has a rusty appearance that is just about the ...

Panels of oxidised steel provide cladding and a colonnade for this Brisbane community centre by local architecture firm Kirk, referencing the rusty car wrecks once dumped on its site (+ slideshow).

John Norman looks at a construction material we might describe as being the Marmite of building solutions. For the past 50 years a type of steel has been produced that has a remarkable quality: it ...

To help lure and orientate tourists to the desert region of Atacama, a visitor centre by Emilio Marín and Juan Carlos López was built on the land as part of a wind farm. Commissioned in 2013, the ...