Seventeen sustainable projects, including a timber cultural centre in Sweden, a school built from bamboo and 3D-printed clay homes, will be exhibited in the Build Better Now virtual pavilion during COP26 in Glasgow. More about UK Green Building Council picks 17 "exemplary sustainable projects" for COP26 virtual pavilion
Cedar siding and a central breezeway feature in this compact home in the Pacific Northwest designed by US firm SHED for a couple who will soon retire. More about Rough-sawn cedar clads Whidbey Dogtrot house in Washington by SHED
The folded form of this villa, designed by Peter Pichler Architecture for the owners of a vineyard in South Tyrol, is intended to merge with the existing landscape and form a shield around its central courtyard. More about Peter Pichler completes angular concrete-and-glass villa in Italian vineyard
Architecture firm Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners has unveiled its design for a distillery drinks brand Horse Soldier Bourbon in Kentucky. More about Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners reveals design for Kentucky distillery
New York studio The Living developed a pavilion for the Venice Architecture Biennale to demonstrate how organic materials with microbial properties could be used in architecture to help create healthier environments for humans. More about The Living creates "probiotic" architectural pavilion that supports living microbes
This week on Dezeen, Adjaye Associates proposed a supertall skyscraper in New York that has a series of cantilevers to give it a dramatic, inverted appearance. More about This week David Adjaye unveiled an upside-down skyscraper
American firm LOHA has completed a row of sculptural, metal-clad homes in Los Angeles that is meant to explore possibilities for the "small lot subdivision typology". More about Sloped walls form Canyon Drive housing complex by LOHA in Los Angeles
Büro Ole Scheeren's residential Fifteen Fifteen skyscraper in Vancouver, which will have a distinctive form with numerous stacked boxy volumes, has taken a step closer to reality as apartment pre-sales begin. More about Ole Scheeren's Fifteen Fifteen skyscraper in Vancouver moves forward
Environmental social scientist Holly Jean Buck and MASS Design Group principal Joseph Kunkel were among the speakers that participated in The World Around In Focus: Land, an afternoon of talks exploring contemporary post-colonial land-use issues. Watch the online event here. More about Watch The World Around In Focus: Land talks
The London Energy Transformation Initiative has published a report that sets out a blueprint for retrofitting UK homes in order to meet national climate change targets. More about LETI publishes Climate Emergency Retrofit Guide to support net-zero target
Italian architect Benedetto Camerana and landscape designer Il Giardino Segreto have created a rooftop garden called La Pista 500 on the rooftop test track at Lingotto, Fiat's iconic former car factory in Turin. More about Benedetto Camerana adds garden with 40,000 plants to the rooftop test track at Fiat's former Lingotto factory
Dezeen promotion: Zaha Hadid Architects, BIG, HOK and Foster + Partners are among the architectural practices giving presentations at Build: Architecture 2021, an event exploring innovative uses of real-time rendering. More about Build: Architecture 2021 online event to explore frontiers of real-time 3D rendering
Designer Remi Connolly-Taylor has designed Maryland House in London, which features a glass brick enclosed staircase, as her own home and studio. More about Remi Connolly-Taylor creates her own glass brick-walled London home
Architects could soon be designing homes and other buildings using nothing but biomaterials, according to Biobased Creations CEO Lucas De Man. More about Buildings could "definitely" be made exclusively from plant-based products says biomaterials CEO
The UK's strategy for achieving net-zero emissions by 2050 "does not go far enough" and ignores embodied carbon according to the RIBA and other industry groups. More about UK net-zero strategy "totally lacking in ambition" say architects
SO-IL, Yakusha Design, WGNB and three other studios have been chosen by Dezeen readers as winners of this year's Dezeen Awards public vote in the studio categories. More about Dezeen Awards 2021 studio public vote winners include all-female Sarit Shani Hay Design Studio
Architecture studios Jakob+MacFarlane and T.ark have designed a low-carbon cross-laminated timber building called Living Landscape that will transform a landfill site in Iceland's capital city. More about "Largest wooden building in Iceland" to occupy landfill site in Reykjavík
The offices of the Casa Leyros tequila distillery are located in stone buildings arranged around tranquil courtyards by Mexican firm 1540 Arquitectura. More about Stone-clad cubes form tequila distillery offices in Jalisco by 1540 Arquitectura
French studio Bruno Gaudin Architectes has completed a library clad in thin, grey bricks at the entrance to Paris Nanterre University. More about Bruno Gaudin Architectes creates university library in France with colonnaded "wind tower"
Brutalist buildings around the world are in danger of demolition due to attacks from right-wing politicians, according to architecture historians. More about Brutalist buildings threatened by right-wing politicians as part of "attack on the welfare state"