Cladding is often a part of the facades of a building. Cladding is largely made of glass that is opaque. It is not glazing because it cannot be seen through.

My first interesting project of cladding was for a new John Lewis store in Newbury. The architects designed the store to have a whole series of opaque glass panels wrapping around the building. They were going to have a very simple chevron pattern. John Lewis suggested we could do something a bit more exciting with this and asked me to propose a design. I chose to work with an image of curtains supposedly a speciality of John Lewis. The result can be seen below. I particularly like this project because it shows how you can add texture and a three dimensional quality to the facade of a building, so easily and inexpensively. The design suggests these 'windows' might be transparent and have an interior behind them. But, in reality there in only concrete there.

I have also done soeveral retaining walls see the images below. Again, this is such a great context for a landscape architect, or any architect working with a city building that has a basement. Making glass the exposed surface of a retaining has so many advantages, particularly over a white rendered wall. The maintenance is almost zero perhaps hose it down once a year. It will look the same in thirty years. You have no repainting costs, sn repairs to the render itself and so on. And you have the opportunity to add something special to the space. It could be image, or simply a pattern, or it might look like stone or rock or marble. The possibilities are enormous.