Chinese studio Open Architecture has completed The Chapel of Sound, a monolithic open-air concert hall in a valley next to the ruins of the Great Wall of China outside Beijing. More about Open Architecture unveils rock-like concert hall in a valley outside Beijing
David Adjaye's upside-down supertall skyscraper proposal for New York has raised eyebrows, but it's not the only tall building that increases in size as it rises. Here is a roundup of 10 other top-heavy buildings. More about Ten top-heavy buildings that are bigger at the top than the bottom
Daily COP26 briefing: today's COP26 briefing includes hydrogen-powered flights, an Architects Climate Action Network talk and Bjarke Ingels on a "hedonistic" future. More about "Hedonistic" future could be better for the environment says Bjarke Ingels at COP26
Architect Yasmeen Lari calls for a form of low-impact architecture that benefits disadvantaged people in her manifesto written for the Dezeen 15 digital festival. More about "We need to do away with the prevalent colonial mindset and the desire to create imposing megastructures" says Yasmeen Lari
Mando Xie imagines humanity moving into ship-like floating cities covered with trees to escape rising sea levels in this proposal, which is a finalist in Dezeen's Redesign the World competition powered by Twinmotion. More about Mando Xie proposes green floating cities to enable "human civilization to continue" on the ocean
Architecture studio Youssofzay + Hart has constructed a series of interconnected rooms using materials found in hardware stores for a temporary exhibition space in Australia that can be easily dismantled and adapted. More about Youssofzay + Hart creates temporary exhibition space using materials from hardware stores
Dezeen is hiring! We have several roles listed on Dezeen Jobs from intern to senior level. Opportunities include roles on our editorial, sales and digital teams. More about Want to work at Dezeen? Check out these opportunities in our editorial, sales and digital teams
American studio Ptacek Home has produced the Chunk Line furniture collection, which aims to combine traditional techniques with a "modern, sculptural twist," from trees that were downed by storms or felled for safety. More about Ptacek Home creates Chunk Line furniture from storm-downed trees
American firm Parnagian Architects has released images of a conceptual house lifted on stilts above a site in coastal New Jersey that was hit hard by a hurricane. More about Parnagian Architects imagines Salt Box Residence for the Jersey Shore
The latest edition of our Dezeen Weekly newsletter features our coverage of the COP26 climate conference in Glasgow. More about Our coverage of the COP26 Summit features in today's Dezeen Weekly newsletter
More than 200 built environment organisations have endorsed a report by RIBA and Architects Declare setting out ways to decarbonise the industry, although leading UK architecture studios including Foster + Partners and Zaha Hadid Architects are yet to join the signatories. More about Foster + Partners and Zaha Hadid Architects yet to endorse RIBA climate report presented at COP26
Dezeen promotion: large-scale installations of Kriskadecor's aluminium chains feature in two new projects: a Kengo Kuma installation in Antoni Gaudí's Casa Batlló and the largest shopping centre in The Netherlands. More about Kriskadecor chain curtains installed on a grand scale in new projects by Kengo Kuma and MVSA
Many people are starting to come back to the office after months of working remotely. Here are 10 office furniture designs from Dezeen Showroom to make office spaces more flexible and comfortable places to be. More about Ten furniture designs to get people back to the office
Speaking live from Nairobi on day four of the Dezeen 15 digital festival, Kabage Karanja and Stella Mutegi of Cave Bureau set out their vision for a new infrastructure for their city that will address colonial and imperial injustices. More about Cave Bureau proposes "Cow Corridors" to allow Maasai people to safely herd cattle through Nairobi
ECG International Landscape Consultants has transformed the site of a derelict sugar factory in Pingtung City, Taiwan, into a public park that retains fragments of the existing industrial infrastructure. More about Heito 1909 is a landscaped park on the site of a former sugar factory
Eames Demetrios, who is the grandson of Charles and Ray Eames, shares his highlights from an exhibition of Eames Office's work that opens tomorrow to mark its 80th anniversary. More about Five Eames Office highlights from the 80 Years of Design exhibition
Maasai people could once again legally herd their cattle through Nairobi via Cow Corridors proposed by Cave Bureau in this manifesto prepared for the Dezeen 15 digital festival. More about Cave Bureau proposes "a new kind of infrastructure for the first inhabitants of the city"
Daily COP26 briefing: today's COP26 briefing includes melting Antarctic ice, Norman Foster's calls for "higher standards" on embodied carbon and a film screening of Olafur Eliasson's Little Sun project. More about Arup exhibits melting 18th-century Antarctic ice at COP26
The next finalist in Dezeen's Redesign the World competition powered by Twinmotion is Gaetano Fornarelli, who has proposed creating car-free cities covered in trees to improve people's health and reduce humanity's impact on the environment. More about Gaetano Fornarelli proposes "moving the countryside to the city" by creating car-free garden cities
Norman Foster has joined a growing number of architects calling for green building certifications that take embodied emissions from materials into account in order to meet net-zero carbon goals. More about Norman Foster calls for "higher standards" on embodied carbon at COP26