Italian studio Carlo Ratti Associati and architect Italo Rota have designed a museum dedicated to carbon fibre, which will be partially made from the material. More about Carlo Ratti Associati designs MAE Museum dedicated to carbon fibre
Kengo Kuma and Associates has used 164,000 metres of aluminium chains to create this mesh curtain that references the organic forms found inside Barcelona's renovated Casa Batlló. More about Kengo Kuma designs sculptural metal-mesh curtain for Gaudí's Casa Batlló
Architecture discussion platform Sound Advice has gathered essays and interviews from 60 architects and urbanists of colour in a book to highlight racial inequality in architecture. More about Now You Know book aims to challenge racial inequality in architecture
Graphic designer Kashiwa Sato has built a public toilet wrapped in white aluminium louvres alongside Ebisu station in central Tokyo, Japan. More about Kashiwa Sato creates "pure white toilet" in Tokyo
Concrete blocks, stucco and glass form the exterior of a home by architecture firm Kendle Design Collaborative that embraces its setting in the Arizona desert. More about Kendle Design Collaborative imbues Phoenix home with "zen-like quality"
An educational programme based on a train and a cultural funhouse are included in Dezeen's latest school show by students at Chulalongkorn University, Thailand. More about International Program in Design and Architecture (INDA) presents 10 award-winning student projects
Japanese studio FORM/Kouichi Kimura Architects has completed Landscape House, a stack of intersecting cuboid forms in Shiga that combines the client's home with their hair salon business. More about FORM/Kouichi Kimura creates geometric hair salon and home in Japan
The Vessel viewpoint at New York's Hudson Yards has temporarily closed after a fourth person died by suicide after jumping from the Heatherwick Studio-designed structure. More about Heatherwick's Vessel closes again after fourth suicide
The second virtual Burning Man festival, an architecture conference featuring Bjarke Ingels and an online talk by Venus Williams at the AIA Conference on Architecture 2021 are just some of the global events listed in Dezeen Events Guide this August. More about Five architecture and design events in August from Dezeen Events Guide
A prototype power plant designed by architect Amanda Levete's firm AL_A with a nuclear fusion reactor is set to be built in Oxfordshire, England. More about Amanda Levete designs world's first magnetised fusion power station for the UK
Black-pigmented concrete and black timber battens have been used to create this tactile home in the village of Federal, New South Wales by Australian studio Edition Office. More about Edition Office completes black concrete home in rural Australia
Paris studio Lemoal Lemoal has used hempcrete blocks to build the Pierre Chevet sports centre in France, which the studio believes is the country's first public building built from the biomaterial. More about Lemoal Lemoal completes first public building in France to be made from hempcrete
A leafy tree rises up through a circular opening in this Brazilian residence and yoga studio, which was designed by the architectural office of Stemmer Rodrigues. More about Stemmer Rodrigues creates Ananda House for yoga teacher in Brazil
Screens made from metal mesh wrap around two sides of this house in Tokyo, Japan. More about Not Architects Studio encloses terraces with metal mesh at Weather House
The global push to reduce atmospheric carbon is being compromised by confusing terminology and misleading claims, argues Dezeen founder and editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs. More about "Carbon washing is the new greenwashing"
Architecture office Estudio Galera has formed the Casa Jacaranda holiday home on the coast of Argentina by stacking and rotating concrete boxes that step out on every floor. More about Estudio Galera builds "simple and imperfect" concrete holiday home in Argentina
OTP Arquitetura has completed a multigenerational house perched on a steep site in Brazil's Mantiqueira mountain range for a couple and their two sons. More about OTP Arquitetura completes mountain home on steep site outside São Paulo
Stefano Boeri Architetti has inserted an entrance kiosk and a pedestrian walkway that provides access to subterranean rooms within Rome's historic Domus Aurea palace. More about Stefano Boeri completes new entrance and walkway at Rome's Domus Aurea
Researchers at the Technical University of Dresden have been working with German architecture firm Henn to create the first concrete building to be reinforced with carbon fibres instead of steel. More about The Cube will be "world's first building made of carbon concrete"
Google continues to emit greenhouse gases despite claiming to be carbon neutral, Dezeen has learned. More about Carbon neutrality "still allows for carbon emissions" says Google sustainability lead