Explore the benefits of CUPACLAD's ventilated slate systems for energy-efficient designs and modern architectural identity.

The recent decades, a new trend has emerged: Using the slate as a rainscreen cladding solution. It’s the natural result of joining the awesome properties of natural slate with the new ...

Promotion: Spanish company Cupa Pizarras has developed Cupaclad, a facade cladding system made from slate that aims to provide a sustainable alternative to conventional exterior finishes.

But the slate was actually a plinth -- a slab on which a pedestal is placed -- and the stick was designed to prop up a sculpture. The sculpture itself -- of a human head -- was nowhere to be seen.

Reading as a tree (but obviously artificial), this rendition will have visceral qualities, with branches tapering into blood vessels and roots reaching over the earthen-clad plinth as though ...