At the new Laban Centre London, the treatment of each side of the polycarbonate sheets (outer surface translucent with UV-protective coating, inner surface coloured and transparent) will cause the skin of the building to transform according to sunlight and direction of approach.

The polycarbonate sheets act as a filter transforming sunlight into a flood of coloured light. The inner translucent glass panels will blur this light changing its character yet again, thus creating an ambient glow of colour which will spill into the interior of the building. The combination of the polycarbonate sheets and the inner glass panels will reduce the total solar transmission and simultaneously keep the grade of light transmission high. The windows are positioned close to the surface of the polycarbonate sheets, thus appearing as reflecting pools of water on a coloured fabric.

Sounds lovely. It's all part of a new regeneration scheme for Deptford. The name of the centre always reminds me of that of this wonderful but bizarrely-named cinema in Cape Town.