The third Chicago Architecture Biennial draws attention to the biggest issues facing today's society, but is short on architects wrangling with them, says Mimi Zeiger. More about "What are we left with when architecture is stripped of its spatiality, materiality and aesthetics?"
An expansive green roof, bird-friendly glass and copper accents are among the design elements that architecture firm FXCollaborative incorporated into an angular museum on Liberty Island in the New York Harbor. More about Flowering meadow tops Statue of Liberty Museum in New York by FXCollaborative
Social enterprise Make Bank has released a collection of 24 prints by British creatives, including textile designer Donna Wilson and graphic designer Peter Chadwick, to help fund arts education for disadvantaged children. More about Make Bank's Print Project sees 20 designers create prints to fund arts education
Travel agency Luxury Action is planning to build the "northernmost hotel in the world" by placing a group of heated glass igloos at the North Pole. More about Portable igloos designed to let holidaymakers sleep at the North Pole
Dezeen promotion: Improving sustainability, encouraging community and helping people navigate the data economy are some of the things that media architecture can offer. More about Architects have the "opportunity to be bold with media facades"
A frame of monolithic concrete portals supports a bar and cafe, designed by Portal 92, which overlooks a raised terrace of terracotta-coloured seating in Moradabad, India. More about Portal 92 designs Village Cafe to evoke feeling of an Indian village
Argentinian studio Adamo Faiden has renovated the curved lower floor of this 1929 home in Buenos Aires to create a light-filled room that opens onto the garden. More about Adamo Faiden refreshes modernist white house in Buenos Aires
Architecture studio Feld72 have completed the Maierhof housing estate in the Alpine town of Bludenz, Austria, comprising eight timber buildings in a mountain landscape. More about Feld72 builds housing estate from timber in Alpine town
As a new university year begins, we're waving off our freshers and returning students with Pinterest collections of homely bedrooms and alcoves, space saving interiors and storage ideas that even your parents would approve of. Follow Dezeen on Pinterest › More about Make your university house a home with this week's Pinterest boards
This residence in Brazil designed by São Paulo architecture firm Nitsche Arquitetos features a covered veranda and infinity pool that overlook the nearby waterway. More about Polycarbonate roof spans long Brazilian residence by Nitsche Arquitetos
A zigzagging zinc facade and a bright blue kitchen are part of an extension to a house in London's Albion Terrace, designed by architecture studio Outpost. More about Outpost tops London terrace extension with a zigzag zinc roof
New York architecture firms and designers including Snøhetta, Selldorf Architects and Joe Doucet are participating in the city's climate strike today, joining a wave of industry figures taking part in demonstrations around the world. More about New York's architects and designers join Greta Thunberg for Global Climate Strike
Experts and activists at the Architecture of Emergency climate summit in London have called upon architects to fight climate change by ditching concrete. More about Architects should give up concrete say experts at Architecture of Emergency climate summit
Yesomi Umolu, the artistic director of this year's Chicago Architecture Biennial, has picked five highlights from the event, including a glass memorial dedicated to victims of gun violence victims and a small cinema set that explores race and gender in the 20th-century. More about Five installations and exhibits not to miss at Chicago Architecture Biennial 2019
Architecture studios Stanton Williams, Grimshaw and dRMM and designers Usman Haque, Sebastian Cox and Ben Terrett are among the creatives taking to the streets to protest political inaction over climate change in today's Global Climate Strike. More about Architects and designers join Global Climate Strike to demand government action
Over 800 buildings are opening their doors to the public this weekend in London for Open House London. We've picked out 10 homes that are welcoming visitors for the first time. More about Ten London homes you can visit for the first time during Open House
Thomas Heatherwick explains his studio's "human-centred" approach to the design of public spaces in this filmed talk hosted by Dezeen and Second Home in Los Angeles. More about "We're not telling people what to do" says Thomas Heatherwick
A walkable concrete roof on thin steel stilts connects and shades the textured brick blocks of a training centre in Hanoi by Vo Trong Nghia Architects. More about Elevated concrete pathway on stilts shades brick training centre in Hanoi
The American Institute of Architects has released a five-point action plan for climate change after announcing it a "critical issue" for the architecture profession. More about AIA makes climate crisis "top priority"
Forensic Architecture and Invisible Institute have created six videos that investigate the police's killing of African American barber Harith Augustus for this year's Chicago Architecture Biennial. More about Forensic Architecture investigates Harith Augustus shooting in six videos