Dutch studio Woonpioniers has completed CoHouse in Utrecht, a pair of interlocking houses designed for two families within a single gabled volume. More about Woonpioniers models adjoining Dutch homes on "a game of Tetris"
Certification company Bureau Veritas has launched the UK Net Zero Carbon Buildings Standard, a voluntary verification scheme that determines a building's carbon performance. More about Net zero verification scheme launched for UK buildings
New York studio Khanna Schultz has taken cues from Japanese architecture to create a "net-positive-energy" house in the Hamptons, New York, which features dark wood cladding and a large rooftop solar array. More about Khanna Schultz infuses House in Amagansett with "atmosphere of quiet contemplation"
US studio Payette has completed a pro-bono project called Land's Sake Farmstand in Massachusetts, USA, designed as a "functional and poetic" timber pavilion that emulates early agrarian buildings. More about Payette creates timber farm stand "rooted in the rhythms of New England"
The American Institute of Architects' new home in Washington DC has been designed by San Francisco-based EHDD to be "one of the first fully decarbonised major renovations in the US". More about EHDD completes net-zero AIA Global Campus in Washington DC
Environmental consultancy Finding Infinity has invited leading Australian architecture studios to propose concepts that could transform Melbourne into a zero-carbon city by 2030. More about A New Normal exhibition aims to transform Melbourne into a zero-carbon city
London studio Satish Jassal Architects has completed a net-zero social housing complex on a disused site in the London Borough of Haringey. More about Satish Jassal Architects completes net-zero social housing on London infill site
Canadian studio HCMA has completed an aquatic and community centre in British Columbia that is the country's first zero-carbon certified building. More about HCMA designs all-electric aquatic center in British Columbia
Staggered volumes organised around a rounded courtyard form the net-zero Westmark Lower School, which was designed by architecture studio NBBJ to "reduce anxiety and stress" for students with learning differences. More about NBBJ completes nature-infused California school for neurodiverse students
UK architecture studio Foster + Partners has been granted planning approval for office and residential development 18 Blackfriars Road, which the studio claims will be net-zero carbon. More about "London's lowest whole-life carbon high-rise" by Foster + Partners receives planning approval
US studio Inaba Williams Architects has created two mirrored houses with courtyards in Santa Monica, California that are clad in white stucco and have net-zero energy use, according to the studio. More about Inaba Williams creates mirrored stucco-clad residences in California
French architecture practice TVK has completed a neighbourhood in Paris made up of limestone buildings surrounding a garden and designed as a sustainable development that aims to increase biodiversity. More about TVK designs limestone buildings for "first zero-carbon district" in Paris
Exterior louvres and faceted canopies are among the elements that US studio Leddy Maytum Stacy Architects has added to a 1920s academic facility, helping it achieve net-zero energy consumption, according to the studio. More about Leddy Maytum Stacy revamps century-old university building in California
At the Global Fashion Summit in Copenhagen, Allbirds has unveiled a woolly sock-style trainer with a bioplastic sole that effectively adds zero emissions to the atmosphere over the course of its life, the shoe brand claims. More about Allbirds creates "world's first net-zero carbon shoe" using regenerative wool
The third edition of our monthly Dezeen In Depth newsletter features a dive into why the sustainability of mass-timber buildings can't be taken for granted. Subscribe to Dezeen In Depth now. More about Dezeen In Depth explores why the sustainability of mass-timber buildings can't be taken for granted
Architects are increasingly using mass timber in the hopes of creating net-zero buildings but carbon assessments are missing key sources of potential emissions, researchers tell Dezeen in this Timber Revolution feature. More about The hidden carbon impacts of getting mass timber wrong
Concrete will remain the world's dominant construction material over biomaterials such as timber as the world transitions to net-zero, claims GCCA chief executive Thomas Guillot. More about "The world needs cement" says concrete industry decarbonisation chief
Mighty Buildings has delivered what it claims is the world's first 3D-printed net-zero home as part of a 40-unit community in Desert Hot Springs that explores environmental and economic development strategies. More about Mighty Buildings completes 3D-printed net-zero home in southern California
A photovoltaic array and a lattice made of salvaged wood are among the sustainable features of Congregation Kol Emeth, a Palo Alto synagogue designed by local studio Field Architecture. More about Field Architecture clads Silicon Valley synagogue in salvaged-wood lattice
Architecture studio Becker + Becker has converted a 1970s brutalist building in New Haven, designed by Hungarian-American architect Marcel Breuer, into a Passive House hotel. More about Marcel Breuer's brutalist office in Connecticut reopens as Hotel Marcel