In collaboration with Colorado-based Prometheus Materials, architecture studio SOM has created a spiral installation made of bio-bricks for the 2023 Chicago Architecture Biennial. More about SOM creates spiral of algae bricks for Chicago Architecture Biennial installation
Gridded fibre-cement cladding and a swimming pool with underwater windows feature at the East Van Residence in Vancouver by Canadian firm SMStudio. More about SMStudio includes pool with underwater windows in "bold" Vancouver house
Dutch studio WillemsenU has completed a house that is partially buried underground to blend in with its rural surroundings in Eindhoven, the Netherlands. More about WillemsenU submerges house under the ground in the Netherlands
In this week's comments update, readers are discussing a concrete multi-generational home in India and debating news that construction has resumed on Jeddah Tower in Saudi Arabia. More about "Enlightened by subtle openings" says commenter
Future-gazing architect and filmmaker Liam Young explains why he believes humans will fail to avert climate catastrophe in this interview with Dezeen. More about "I'm filled with dread" over climate change says Liam Young
Valentino Architects and curator Ann Dingli have presented a proposal to retrofit a historic fortification at the Venice Architecture Biennale to suggest alternative methods of conservation in the face of Malta's rapid development. More about Għallis exhibition suggests alternative to Malta's "unstoppable trajectory of hyper-development"
Local architecture office Superlimão Studio has created a lifted building with a tree-like structure constructed using mass timber for a McDonald's restaurant in São Paulo. More about Superlimão uses mass timber for the "most sustainable McDonald's in Brazil"
The latest edition of our weekly Dezeen Agenda newsletter features an interview with architect Diébédo Francis Kéré, who tells Dezeen he could design a skyscraper when the time is right. Subscribe to Dezeen Agenda now. More about Dezeen Agenda features Diébédo Francis Kéré saying he is open to designing skyscraper
A sculptural facade defines the Allan & Geraldine Rosenberg Residences, a housing block with affordable senior apartments in Freeport, New York, designed by architecture firm Studio Libeskind. More about Studio Libeskind creates social housing block for first New York project
Nonprofit New York City Economic Development Corporation has launched New York City Mass Timber Studio, an assistance program for the development of mass-timber construction within New York City. More about New York City incentivises mass-timber construction with assistance program
A sawtooth roof that references the nearby South Melbourne Market tops Ferrars & York, an apartment block in Australia designed by local studio Six Degrees Architects. More about Sawtooth roof animates Ferrars & York apartment block in Melbourne
A 1960s Italian hotel and the historic coastal bulwarks below have been restored by architect Bonaventura Gambardella and interior designer Nikita Bettoni. More about Cliffside hotel on Italy's Amalfi Coast incorporates medieval stone defences
Local architecture studio Dellekamp Schleich has created an office building in Mexico City that it says is the country's largest and tallest mass-timber structure to "set an example for innovative construction methods". More about Dellekamp Schleich uses trusses for "Mexico's largest mass-timber building"
Students in the Studio 804 design-build programme at the University of Kansas took cues from farmstead vernacular to create a primary home and accessory dwelling unit called 722 Ash Street. More about Studio 804 completes gabled Kansas home with ADU
Architecture studio Core Design Workshop has remodelled a 1980s home outside Kuala Lumpur called Introverse, transforming its compartmentalised interiors into a large garden room. More about Core Design Workshop organises "introverted" Malaysian home around large garden
Rounded columns "simulate elements washed by the sea" at this beach house on Mexico's Pacific Coast, designed by César Béjar Studio and Fernando Sánchez Zepeda. More about Casa Los Tigres is a minimalist residence in Mexico
Architecture practice Studio Bright used patterned breeze blocks to wrap Garden Tower House, an extension in Australia, which peeks out from behind the restored frontage of a workers' cottage. More about Studio Bright wraps extension in Australia with pale pink breeze blocks
Australian studio Retallack Thompson has constructed a steel extension for a heritage-listed stone terrace in Sydney and added a second house on the same plot to create a multi-generational family home. More about Plant-filled courtyard connects steel and stone houses in Sydney
The spiral shape of a conch shell informed the Serpentine Bookhouse in Shenzhen, China, a library that has been designed by local architecture studio Atelier Xi. More about Spiralling library by Atelier Xi "unfolds like a scroll painting"
American firm Studio of Metropolitan Design Architects has renovated a stone Tudor Revival house and added a pavilion-like concrete extension in Wilmington, Delaware. More about Studio of Metropolitan Design adds monumental pavilion to Delaware Tudor-style house