DROO completes London building with "crumpled paper" facade

Walls with the texture of scrunched-up paper feature on this residential and office building that architecture studio DROO has completed in east London.
The Paintworks is a four-storey building in Shoreditch, containing two office units and seven apartments.The site was once home to art studios and an art-supply store. DROO wanted to pay tribute to this in its design, so architects Michel Da Costa Goncalves and Amrita Mahindroo added a facade that looks and feels like crumpled paper.
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