British practice Stanton Williams' 2019 development of key worker homes, retail and public spaces in Cambridge has been shortlisted for both the 2021 RIBA Stirling Prize and the 2021 RIBA Neave Brown Award. More about Stanton Williams draws on traditional urban layouts for Key Worker Housing in Cambridge
Swiss architecture studio Herzog & de Meuron has created an extension to the dockside MKM Museum Küppersmühle in Duisburg, Germany. More about Herzog & de Meuron creates brick extension to its MKM Museum Küppersmühle
Vestre is showcasing a collection of urban furniture that encourages biodiversity at this year's Milan design week, set within a leafy installation constructed by Note Design Studio from one of the brand's old fair stands. More about Note Design Studio reuses Vestre fair stand to form indoor park installation
A series of twisting walls made from local brick form partitions that separate the living spaces within this house by Wallmakers in the Indian city of Trivandrum. More about Wallmakers uses brick to create curved supporting walls at Pirouette House
Gardens carved from this concrete home near Quérétaro, Mexico by Gestalt Associates bring light, air and vegetation into the living spaces. More about Concrete house by Gestalt Associates take cues from Querétaro's colonial architecture
Studio A( )void has completed a retreat in China's Hebei province comprising a series of cave-like brick-clad pods connected by a raised walkway. More about Studio A( )void designs Grotto Retreat Xiyaotou to evoke ancient cave dwellings
Dezeen promotion: concrete bricks manufactured by Marshalls have been found to contain almost 50 per cent less embodied carbon than traditional clay bricks, according to the British manufacturing company. More about Marshalls produces concrete bricks with less embodied carbon than clay bricks
Dezeen teamed up with British masonry specialist Marshalls to live stream an interview with the company's sustainability director Chris Harrop. More about Watch our talk about building sustainably with brick
Architecture studio Edition Office has completed a house in the town of Kyneton, Australia, featuring angled ceilings and a palette of textural materials chosen to complement its natural surroundings. More about Kyneton House by Edition Office combines brickwork walls with lofted white ceilings
Stepped "gingerbread" gables and textured white brickwork animate the facade of Ghost Houses, a development of three slim terraced homes in Nunhead, London by Fraher & Findlay. More about Fraher & Findlay creates "ghostly" row of terraces by mimicking neighbouring buildings
London studio Satish Jassal Architects has completed a home in Bermondsey that integrates an existing brick wall. More about Southwark Brick House peeks above a brick wall in Bermondsey
Architecture firm BBOA has completed a government-backed housing scheme in Argentina featuring irregular residential blocks clad with pale pink bricks. More about Pink brick clads Baigorria housing project in Argentina by BBOA
Portuguese architect Tiago Sousa has renovated the remains of a traditional house in the village of Romarigães by inserting a brick volume into an existing stone shell. More about Tiago Sousa inserts brick house into stone ruin in Portugal
Architecture studio Bradley Van Der Straeten has renovated and extended a Georgian house in north London, adding four brick volumes containing new spaces including a dining area topped with vaulted roof lights. More about Vaulted roof lights direct daylight into plywood-lined extension by Bradley Van Der Straeten
Mexican architect Daniela Bucio Sistos has created a red brick and coloured concrete house in Morelia, Mexico, that features round windows and a disc-shaped canopy over a courtyard. More about Tree grows through circular opening in courtyard canopy of Mexico house by Daniela Bucio Sistos
White brick walls and angled roofs feature in a housing project in Rosario that was designed by Argentine firm BBOA to create a collection of similar homes but avoid monotony. More about BBOA creates homes with slanted roofs for Morrison complex in Argentina
A series of vaulted, brick arches overlook a circular swimming pool at a boutique hotel in Puerto Escondido designed by Mexican architect Alberto Kalach. More about Arched volumes define Casona Sforza resort in Mexico by Alberto Kalach
Canadian studio Batay-Csorba Architects has carved a barrel-vaulted tunnel through a brick home in Toronto designed to evoke the architecture of ancient Rome. More about Vaulted tunnel runs through brick house by Batay-Csorba Architects
A group of designers known as Colectivo C733 has completed a brick shopping centre in northern Mexico topped with roof volumes that bring in daylight and allow hot air to escape. More about Trapezoidal "umbrellas" form roof of Matamoros Market by Colectivo C733
Reclaimed brick and metal panels form the exterior of a residential and commercial project in Colorado's capital, designed by local firm Tres Birds. More about S*PARK by Tres Birds occupies full city block in Denver