The built environment is the fastest-growing consumer of materials in the world – but it also offers the most potential for improvement according to Julia Okatz, advisor on the UN's landmark Global Resource Outlook. More about Buildings "biggest lever" for improving global resource efficiency says UN report
Architecture studio Buzz has transformed three sunken courtyards created for an underground car park into gallery, event and activity spaces for Beijing MAHA Arts Centre in China. More about Buzz creates subterranean Hermit Space galleries in Beijing park
An angular roof wrapped in translucent red-mesh panels crowns this Y-shaped pavilion in Sydney, designed by local studio Sam Crawford Architects. More about Sam Crawford Architects creates red-roofed community pavilion in Sydney
This week on Dezeen, plans were announced to expand the Hudson Yards development in New York with a series of supertall skyscrapers and a casino. More about This week we revealed plans for supertall skyscrapers and a casino at Hudson Yards
The Obama Foundation and US architecture studio Moody Nolan have released images of an athletic facility to be built on the Obama Presidential Center campus in Chicago. More about Moody Nolan unveils design of athletic facility at Obama presidential campus
The Palm Springs Art Museum has unveiled the reconstructed Aluminaire House in California, a modernist house originally designed in the 1930s by architect Albert Frey and editor A Lawrence Kocher. More about Albert Frey's all-metal 1930s Aluminaire House reassembled in Palm Springs
Australian studio Lahznimmo Architects has completed Powerhouse Castle Hill in northwest Sydney, a shed-like storage facility wrapped in corrugated aluminium and concrete. More about Lahznimmo Architects aims for "beautiful utility" with museum storage in Sydney
Our next Social Housing Revival case study is Atelier GOM's Shanghai Longnan Garden estate, the first social-housing project in China to abandon high-rise towers. More about Longnan Garden estate in Shanghai wanted to escape the "virus" of boring Chinese housing
UK practice Levitt Bernstein has completed its refurbishment of the Grade II-listed Bristol Beacon, creating new interiors for the "grand and impressive" historic concert venue. More about Levitt Bernstein reinstates historic character of Grade-II listed Bristol Beacon
UK architecture practice Heatherwick Studio has unveiled designs for its first building in South America, a university in Bogotá with colourful, undulating columns informed by indigenous weaving practices. More about Heatherwick Studio's first South American building to feature basketry-informed facade
Wendell Burnette Architects used Corten steel to clad a cabin in Arizona designed to capture views while disappearing into the landscape like a "dark shadow". More about Telescope House by Wendell Burnette offers framed views of Sedona
The latest edition of our Dezeen Debate newsletter features plans to expand Hudson Yards in New York City. Subscribe to Dezeen Debate now. More about New York casino plans prompt "identity crisis between Dubai and Las Vegas"
A warped metal extension, a bright-yellow entrance and a barn converted into a play house feature in this roundup of barn and farm conversions in the Northeast of the United States. More about Eight barn and farmhouse conversions in the Northeastern United States
Architecture practice Studio Octopi has added a rear extension clad in mint-green metal to The Saddlery, a Georgian house in southeast London. More about Studio Octopi adds mint-green extension to Georgian house in London
Saudi development Neom has unveiled a hotel called Treyam that bridges a lagoon as the latest resort on the Gulf of Aqaba. More about Mark Foster Gage designs 450-metre-long bridge hotel at Neom
The rough finishes of an existing concrete and brick structure are contrasted by white exhibition spaces at Arario Gallery in Seoul, completed by Japanese studio Schemata Architects. More about Schemata Architects embraces rough material finishes for gallery in Seoul
Architecture studio MoDus Architects has extended a daycare in the town of Terlano, Italy, to create the Tartan School nursery, kindergarten and youth centre. More about MoDus Architects wraps South Tyrol kindergarten in tartan pattern for "warmth and familiarity"
UK Architecture studio Foster + Partners has unveiled renderings of an office tower to be built in Hollywood with a series of spiralling terraces wrapped around its exterior. More about Foster + Partners designs Hollywood offices with spiralling plant-covered terraces
Development firm Related Companies has announced plans to expand the program of Hudson Yards with a series of buildings including supertall skyscrapers and a casino. More about Supertall skyscrapers and casino planned for Hudson Yards expansion
Architecture studio Gurea Arquitectura Cooperativa has completed The Cork and Wood House, a home in Spain that is finished with a raw palette of materials. More about Gurea Arquitectura Cooperativa clads rural Spanish house with cork blocks