A wall cladding system to provide an attractive finished, exterior appearance to a building wall, the system including an assembly of adjacent, similar, thin cladding elements, oriented in a substantially vertical plane, each cladding element including an exterior panel provided with an exterior and an interior major face, the interior major face being attached by an adhesive material to a flexible sheet of material having an upper edge projecting beyond the cladding element. Further, a plurality of spaced-apart fasteners are provided to connect the flexible sheet of material to a building wall.