Architect Hiroshi Nakamura incorporated around 700 windows donated by the local community into the facades of this waste recycling facility in the town of Kamikatsu, the first place in Japan to pass a zero-waste declaration. More about Kamikatsu Zero Waste Center by Hiroshi Nakamura is built using waste materials
Daily COP26 briefing: today's COP26 briefing includes mini nuclear reactors, a talk by Nigerian architect Kunlé Adeyemi and the Architects' Journal blog. More about Rolls-Royce gets funding to develop mini nuclear reactors at COP26
The next finalists in Dezeen's Redesign the World competition powered by Twinmotion are Enzo Lara-Hamilton, Anne Wagner and Morgan Heenan, who have proposed a world in which humans live in self-contained spherical pods. More about Enzo Lara-Hamilton, Anne Wagner and Morgan Heenan imagine a world in which people live in "self-contained micro-habitats"
Architecture studio CetraRuddy has created a skyscraper informed by New York's Rockefeller Center with a chevron-patterned facade that pays homage to the surrounding art deco buildings. More about CetraRuddy completes art deco skyscraper topped with "sculpted crown" in New York
London and Mexico city-based Aidia Studio has proposed a mosque for Preston, England, that is designed to be a "quintessential archetype of Islamic Architecture". More about Aidia Studio designs mosque in Preston with cascading arched volumes
Glass display cases filled with artworks take centre stage in the Depot Boijmans Van Beuningen, an art storage building designed by MVRDV, which is now open to the public in Rotterdam. More about MVRDV's Depot Boijmans Van Beuningen opens, giving the public access to 151,000 artworks
Daily COP26 briefing: today's COP26 briefing includes a projection artwork by Beatie Wolfe, a cement-free concrete tower and a talk by sustainable architecture expert Maria Smith. More about Beatie Wolfe visualises rising CO2 levels on Glasgow's Armadillo building at COP26
BPAS Architects imagines building huge water-harvesting skyscrapers for humanity to survive in the desert, one of the 15 finalist projects for Dezeen's Redesign the World competition powered by Twinmotion. More about BPAS Architects envisions rain-collecting skyscrapers to "reverse desertification"
This short film by photographer Iwan Baan shows the Babyn Yar Synagogue designed by Swiss studio Manuel Herz Architects opening and closing. More about Video shows pop-up synagogue in Ukraine unfolding like a book
The first week of the Dezeen 15 digital festival celebrating Dezeen's 15th birthday saw Yasmeen Lari call for "a new activism among architects" and Winy Maas state "it's okay to lose a commission" if the client resists sustainable proposals. More about Dezeen 15 festival highlights include Es Devlin calling for "code of conduct" for architects and designers
White surfaces, both inside and out, offer the ideal backdrop for artwork in this light-filled home created by LA firm Abramson Architects for a creative client. More about White stucco wraps Getty View Residence by Abramson Architects in Los Angeles
A museum that pairs monitoring soil with artistic research and a women's home that offers pregnant women and mothers a space for empowerment are included in Dezeen's latest school show by the University of North Carolina Charlotte. More about University of North Carolina Charlotte spotlights 10 architecture projects
Tar-coated wooden shingles cover the walls and roof of this small cabin, which architecture office Pirinen & Salo designed as a studio for a filmmaker on a wooded site beside lake Porovesi in Finland. More about The Filmmaker's Hut is a "mystical" black cabin overlooking a Finnish lake
This week on Dezeen, a proposed university dormitory at the University of California was criticised for housing 90 per cent of its 4,500 students in windowless rooms. More about This week the mostly windowless Munger Hall university dormitory block caused controversy
Photovoltaics and a rainwater harvesting system feature in a hockey stadium in Seattle that has been designed by architecture firm Populous and named after Amazon's Climate Pledge initiative. More about Populous revamps World's Fair pavilion in Seattle to create Climate Pledge Arena
Billionaire investor Charles Munger's design for Munger Hall, a much-criticised student dormitory at the University of California, was informed by Le Corbusier and will "last as long as the pyramids," he has claimed in an interview defending the project. More about Mostly windowless mega dormitory "fixes Corbusier's errors" on Unité d'Habitation says billionaire designer
Decorative bamboo screens enclose the Zero Carbon Cultural Centre, a giant pavilion in Makli built by local people together with architect Yasmeen Lari's Heritage Foundation of Pakistan organisation. More about Prefabricated bamboo community centre in Pakistan built by local people
Architect Yasmeen Lari and Heritage Foundation of Pakistan have worked with disadvantaged communities to craft terracotta tiling for a pedestrianised street in the historic heart of Karachi. More about Yasmeen Lari works with impoverished villagers to re-pave Karachi's old town
Chinese studio Open Architecture has completed The Chapel of Sound, a monolithic open-air concert hall in a valley next to the ruins of the Great Wall of China outside Beijing. More about Open Architecture unveils rock-like concert hall in a valley outside Beijing
David Adjaye's upside-down supertall skyscraper proposal for New York has raised eyebrows, but it's not the only tall building that increases in size as it rises. Here is a roundup of 10 other top-heavy buildings. More about Ten top-heavy buildings that are bigger at the top than the bottom