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
Want to enter our Redesign the World competition but not familiar with using architectural visualisation tool Twinmotion? Watch our free online workshop. More about Learn tips for entering the Redesign the World competition in our Twinmotion workshop
Dutch studio MVRDV has responded to the criticism of its fake hill in central London and accepts that it opened before it was ready. More about Marble Arch Mound has a "serious message" says MVRDV in defence of attraction
American firms NAC Architecture and Bernards have used shipping containers to form private apartments in a Los Angeles facility for people experiencing homelessness. More about Shipping containers used to build LA housing complex for the homeless
Dezeen Showroom: designed for people who want to be able to focus while working from home, the WorkPod by Autonomous is a prefabricated office pod that can be assembled in one day. More about WorkPod by Autonomous
Dutch studio MVRDV's £2 million fake hill in central London has been ridiculed by critics and forced to temporarily close, with refunds issued to disgruntled visitors. More about MVDRV's Marble Arch Mound "going down like a turd" as council suspends bookings
British architecture studio Gort Scott has installed a house on a rocky outcrop in the Canadian mountain resort of Whistler, offering impressive views over Alta Lake. More about Concrete house by Gort Scott hugs rocky crag in Whistler
The shift to remote working from suburbs and the countryside due to the Covid-19 pandemic could lead to a huge rise in carbon emissions, according to Taylor Francis of decarbonisation platform Watershed. More about Urbanism "is one of the best tools we have" in the fight against climate change
Architecture firm Barrault Pressacco used biomaterials including wood and hempcrete to construct this mixed-use building that references traditional Parisian apartment blocks. More about Barrault Pressacco uses hempcrete to create social housing in Paris