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
Daily COP26 briefing: today's COP26 briefing includes hydrogen-powered flights, an Architects Climate Action Network talk and Bjarke Ingels on a "hedonistic" future. More about "Hedonistic" future could be better for the environment says Bjarke Ingels at COP26
Architect Yasmeen Lari calls for a form of low-impact architecture that benefits disadvantaged people in her manifesto written for the Dezeen 15 digital festival. More about "We need to do away with the prevalent colonial mindset and the desire to create imposing megastructures" says Yasmeen Lari
Mando Xie imagines humanity moving into ship-like floating cities covered with trees to escape rising sea levels in this proposal, which is a finalist in Dezeen's Redesign the World competition powered by Twinmotion. More about Mando Xie proposes green floating cities to enable "human civilization to continue" on the ocean
American firm Parnagian Architects has released images of a conceptual house lifted on stilts above a site in coastal New Jersey that was hit hard by a hurricane. More about Parnagian Architects imagines Salt Box Residence for the Jersey Shore
More than 200 built environment organisations have endorsed a report by RIBA and Architects Declare setting out ways to decarbonise the industry, although leading UK architecture studios including Foster + Partners and Zaha Hadid Architects are yet to join the signatories. More about Foster + Partners and Zaha Hadid Architects yet to endorse RIBA climate report presented at COP26
ECG International Landscape Consultants has transformed the site of a derelict sugar factory in Pingtung City, Taiwan, into a public park that retains fragments of the existing industrial infrastructure. More about Heito 1909 is a landscaped park on the site of a former sugar factory
Eames Demetrios, who is the grandson of Charles and Ray Eames, shares his highlights from an exhibition of Eames Office's work that opens tomorrow to mark its 80th anniversary. More about Five Eames Office highlights from the 80 Years of Design exhibition
Daily COP26 briefing: today's COP26 briefing includes melting Antarctic ice, Norman Foster's calls for "higher standards" on embodied carbon and a film screening of Olafur Eliasson's Little Sun project. More about Arup exhibits melting 18th-century Antarctic ice at COP26
The next finalist in Dezeen's Redesign the World competition powered by Twinmotion is Gaetano Fornarelli, who has proposed creating car-free cities covered in trees to improve people's health and reduce humanity's impact on the environment. More about Gaetano Fornarelli proposes "moving the countryside to the city" by creating car-free garden cities
Norman Foster has joined a growing number of architects calling for green building certifications that take embodied emissions from materials into account in order to meet net-zero carbon goals. More about Norman Foster calls for "higher standards" on embodied carbon at COP26
This cabin in the Alpokalja forest near Kőszeg, Hungary, was entirely built on stilts as an isolated getaway that would harmoniously integrate with the surrounding trees. More about Béres Architects hides cabin on stilts in a Hungarian forest
Sawtooth roof forms lined with timber top this two-storey home on a hidden infill site in Walthamstow, London, designed by local practice Studioshaw. More about Studioshaw uses clerestory windows to draw light into home on London infill site
Daily COP26 briefing: today's COP26 briefing includes The Colour of the Climate Crisis exhibition and an artwork designed to highlight links between climate change and colonisation. More about No New Worlds artwork installed at COP26
Angelo Renna and Oleksandr Nenenko have proposed covering planet Earth with huge genetically engineered trees, one of 15 finalist projects for Dezeen's Redesign the World competition powered by Twinmotion. More about Angelo Renna and Oleksandr Nenenko envision a world dominated by "superorganism" trees
Architecture studio HEMAA has completed two homes in the Jardines del Pedregal neighbourhood of Mexico City that share a lush garden at the front of the property. More about HEMAA references iconic Pedregal for pair of stone houses in Mexico City
Architect Dennis McFadden has stepped down from a University of California committee in protest over designs for a university dormitory at its Santa Barbara campus where over 90 per cent of its 4,500 students would reportedly live in windowless rooms. More about Architect resigns over mostly windowless Munger Hall dormitory at University of California