Environmental social scientist Holly Jean Buck and MASS Design Group principal Joseph Kunkel were among the speakers that participated in The World Around In Focus: Land, an afternoon of talks exploring contemporary post-colonial land-use issues. Watch the online event here. More about Watch The World Around In Focus: Land talks
The London Energy Transformation Initiative has published a report that sets out a blueprint for retrofitting UK homes in order to meet national climate change targets. More about LETI publishes Climate Emergency Retrofit Guide to support net-zero target
Italian architect Benedetto Camerana and landscape designer Il Giardino Segreto have created a rooftop garden called La Pista 500 on the rooftop test track at Lingotto, Fiat's iconic former car factory in Turin. More about Benedetto Camerana adds garden with 40,000 plants to the rooftop test track at Fiat's former Lingotto factory
Dezeen promotion: Zaha Hadid Architects, BIG, HOK and Foster + Partners are among the architectural practices giving presentations at Build: Architecture 2021, an event exploring innovative uses of real-time rendering. More about Build: Architecture 2021 online event to explore frontiers of real-time 3D rendering
Designer Remi Connolly-Taylor has designed Maryland House in London, which features a glass brick enclosed staircase, as her own home and studio. More about Remi Connolly-Taylor creates her own glass brick-walled London home
Architects could soon be designing homes and other buildings using nothing but biomaterials, according to Biobased Creations CEO Lucas De Man. More about Buildings could "definitely" be made exclusively from plant-based products says biomaterials CEO
The UK's strategy for achieving net-zero emissions by 2050 "does not go far enough" and ignores embodied carbon according to the RIBA and other industry groups. More about UK net-zero strategy "totally lacking in ambition" say architects
SO-IL, Yakusha Design, WGNB and three other studios have been chosen by Dezeen readers as winners of this year's Dezeen Awards public vote in the studio categories. More about Dezeen Awards 2021 studio public vote winners include all-female Sarit Shani Hay Design Studio
Architecture studios Jakob+MacFarlane and T.ark have designed a low-carbon cross-laminated timber building called Living Landscape that will transform a landfill site in Iceland's capital city. More about "Largest wooden building in Iceland" to occupy landfill site in Reykjavík
The offices of the Casa Leyros tequila distillery are located in stone buildings arranged around tranquil courtyards by Mexican firm 1540 Arquitectura. More about Stone-clad cubes form tequila distillery offices in Jalisco by 1540 Arquitectura
French studio Bruno Gaudin Architectes has completed a library clad in thin, grey bricks at the entrance to Paris Nanterre University. More about Bruno Gaudin Architectes creates university library in France with colonnaded "wind tower"
Brutalist buildings around the world are in danger of demolition due to attacks from right-wing politicians, according to architecture historians. More about Brutalist buildings threatened by right-wing politicians as part of "attack on the welfare state"
Japanese studio Kengo Kuma and Associates has unveiled plans for a contemporary entrance gallery to protect the sculptural doorway at Angers Cathedral, France. More about Kengo Kuma to add contemporary entrance to gothic cathedral in Angers
Projects by Ibuku, Rooi Design and Research, and Honext have been voted by Dezeen readers as winners of this year's Dezeen Awards public vote in the sustainability categories. More about Dezeen Awards 2021 sustainability public vote winners feature a bamboo school in Bali
Dezeen has teamed up with The World Around to live-stream its In Focus: Land event on 22 October, an afternoon of free online talks exploring the complex post-colonial issues of land use in the 21st century. More about Holly Jean Buck and Joseph Kunkel to present at The World Around In Focus: Land
Beijing-based BLUE Architecture Studio has completed a nature-infused, riverside hotel that resembles a "small floating village from a distance". More about BLUE creates BAN Villa hotel in the Chinese countryside
Architecture studio Adjaye Associates has designed a supertall skyscraper in New York, which has a series of cantilevers to give it a dramatic form. More about Adjaye Associates proposes inverted supertall skyscraper for New York
Eco-design studio Biobased Creations has built a showhome almost entirely from biomaterials including wood, mycelium, seaweed, straw and vegetable fibres as well as earth and sewage. More about House built from 100 different plant-based materials unveiled at Dutch Design Week
Cork-clad concrete canopies cover large outdoor gathering spaces at a primary school on the outskirts of Leiria, Portugal, designed by local practice Contaminar Arquitetos. More about Contaminar Arquitetos designs concrete and cork school in Portugal
The McGrath Road housing project by Peter Barber Architects in east London has won this year's RIBA Neave Brown Award for Housing 2021. More about Peter Barber Architects' "intelligent, dynamic and original" McGrath Road named UK's best affordable housing scheme