Environmental certification schemes for buildings overlook embodied carbon and encourage architects to add unnecessary "systems and gizmos" to achieve high ratings, according to architect Andrew Waugh. More about BREEAM and LEED green certification schemes are "meaningless" says Andrew Waugh
Dezeen has teamed up with Epic Games to launch Redesign the World, the ultimate design competition that calls for new ideas to rethink planet Earth. More about Dezeen launches £15,000 Redesign the World competition with Epic Games
Zaha Hadid Architects and ETH Zurich have built a 3D-printed concrete footbridge named Striatus in Venice that is freestanding and assembled without mortar. More about Zaha Hadid Architects and ETH Zurich create 3D-printed concrete bridge in Venice
British designer Thomas Heatherwick has rejected claims that he is working on creating a coronavirus memorial following a meeting with representatives of the UK government. More about Heatherwick "isn't involved" in designing national Covid-19 memorial
US firm Olson Kundig designed an oceanfront home on Canada's Vancouver Island on stilts, with panoramic views of the surrounding forest and the Pacific Ocean beyond. More about Olson Kundig perches beach home on stilts in Canadian forest
New photos show Danish studios Schmidt Hammer Lassen and Friis & Moltke's Corten-clad prison overlooking a fjord in Greenland's capital Nuuk. More about Schmidt Hammer Lassen and Friis & Moltke design "humane prison" in Greenland's capital
British designer Thomas Heatherwick has met with the UK government to discuss commemorating those who have died during the coronavirus pandemic. More about Thomas Heatherwick in discussions with UK government over Covid-19 memorial
A group of former students and staff members from the Bartlett School of Architecture in London have hired a solicitor to examine claims of sexual and racial discrimination at the school. More about Ex-students hire lawyer to pursue "breaches of a serious nature" at Bartlett architecture school
Chicago-based architecture and design firm Moss has completed a Corten-clad microbrewery in Buchanan, Michigan, created by modifying a prefabricated barn structure. More about Moss designs home for microbrewery by customising a prefab rural barn
Concrete and glass are used throughout the interior and exterior of this holiday home in northern Portugal, which local studio Carvalho Araújo designed to blend in with its woodland setting. More about Carvalho Araújo completes monolithic concrete house in a Portuguese forest
An urban agricultural centre that highlights all aspects of the food cycle and a design that explores the domesticity of public space are included in our latest school show by students at the University of Oregon, College of Design. More about Ten architecture projects from students at the University of Oregon College of Design
Spanish architect Estudio Herreros has completed a 13-storey museum dedicated to Norwegian artist Edvard Munch, saying the building provides "a new reference point in Oslo's skyline". More about Estudio Herreros completes Munch museum on Oslo waterfront
Will Gamble Architects has renovated and extended a Victorian house in south London, with details including casement-style glazing, skylights and a big pivoting door. More about Will Gamble Architects puts modern spin on Victorian details with T-House in London
An urban recreational centre designed to encourage socialising through sports and a sustainable community college feature in Dezeen's latest school show by architecture students at the University of Technology, Jamaica. More about University of Technology Jamaica highlights 10 student architecture projects
Architecture studio Ibuku has completed The Arc gymnasium for a private school in Bali featuring a complex double-curved roof made entirely from bamboo. More about Ibuku completes "unprecedented" bamboo building in the Balinese jungle
To reduce carbon emissions, architects and designers need to change the way they design homes, writes Geraldine de Boisse, vice president of innovation at renewable-energy supplier Bulb. More about "Great design isn't enough. We need homes that will get us to net-zero"
The Tokyo 2020 Olympics opens today amid claims that its promise to be the greenest games ever are "greenwashing". More about Tokyo 2020 Olympics accused of "superficial" sustainability efforts
Tokyo studio Nikken Sekkei has designed a timber communal building at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games' athletes village, which was built using 40,000 pieces of Japanese wood. More about Olympic Village Plaza built using 40,000 pieces of donated Japanese timber
A coat that can be used as a body bag and bird protection nests waterproofed with "cactus slime" are included in Dezeen's latest school show by students at Centro, a design and communication school in Mexico City. More about Ten design projects from students at design and communication school Centro
A lakeside forest on the outskirts of Aarhus, Denmark, is the setting for this copper-clad writer's cabin designed by architecture and landscape office Sleth. More about The Author's House is a copper-clad cabin in a Danish forest