US-based studio Pelli Clarke & Partners has created a museum, with a futuristic bridge and tower embedded with wind turbines, dedicated to artist Lola Mora in Argentina. More about Museum for Lola Mora is César Pelli's final building
Plans for a large new building in Rotterdam intended to encourage people to lead more environmentally friendly lifestyles are wrong-headed and should be scrapped in a blaze of publicity, writes Barnabas Calder. More about "Plants on a building doesn't make it sustainable, any more than a basil leaf on a steak makes it vegan"
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"
Local studio Gresford Architects has upgraded the Old Orchard, a 1980s bungalow in Oxfordshire, with a low-impact and modern extension. More about Gresford Architects clads low-carbon Oxfordshire bungalow in cedar wood
A faceted roof encircles a central courtyard at Écosystème D, an energy hub and engineering workspace in Dunkirk designed by architecture studios Snøhetta and Santer Vanhoof. More about Snøhetta adds "positive energy building" to Dunkirk port
The circular economy is an unhelpfully vague concept that belongs in the recycling bin, writes Smith Mordak. More about "It's time to see all those circular economy strategies for what they are"
Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers have made recycled plastic into floor trusses for housing, arguing the waste stream could provide an abundant and sustainable structural building material. More about MIT researchers developing process to make houses from recycled plastic
Sydney Fish Market, which claims to be the largest fish market in the southern hemisphere and features an undulating 20,000-square-metre roof canopy, has opened its doors in "an underutilised harbour area" in Sydney. More about 3XN-designed Sydney Fish Market opens to the public
Concerns about embodied carbon are increasing the impetus to design architecture that stands the test of time. But just how long should we expect a building to last? Nat Barker reports. More about How long should a building last?
A palette of local clay, sand, hemp and wood was used to create Hedeskov Living Lab, a research and educational centre in Rønde, designed by Danish architecture studio Djernes & Bell. More about Djernes & Bell designs Danish research centre as "living laboratory"
Stone makes up the facade, frame, foundations and floor slabs in the Stone Demonstrator, a project by London's Design Museum aimed at getting the British construction industry to embrace the "ultra-low-carbon" material. More about Design Museum pushes for stone construction in the UK with Stone Demonstrator
British architect Piers Taylor advocates a radically local approach to contemporary architecture in his book, Learning from the Local. In this roundup, he picks 10 featured projects that embody the idea. More about Ten projects that illustrate Piers Taylor's call for "deeper and messier" architecture
Students from London's Architectural Association have developed a low-cost and easily repeatable way to build with tree forks – a type of timber that is usually discarded as waste even though it is unusually strong. More about AA Design & Make students devise simple way to build with tree forks
Material research studio Matter at Hand, founded by Assemble co-founder Lewis Jones, has created a prototype clay-based construction method named Poured Earth that emulates casting concrete. More about Poured Earth is a sustainable construction method modelled on concrete casting
As the world gets hotter demand for cooling systems is increasing, but energy-hungry air conditioning risks making the situation worse. Starr Charles explores whether more efficient solutions are possible. More about Can we quit our air-con addiction?
Architecture studio AFL Architects and consultancy Ridge and Partners have revealed plans for a 16,000-seat stadium powered entirely by renewable energy, which will be the new home for Oxford United Football Club. More about UK's "first all-electric football stadium" set to be built for Oxford United
In this Dezeen Studio video, architecture reporter Amy Peacock answers everything you need to know about building with cob. More about Everything you need to know about building with cob
American start-up InventWood claims to have "reinvented wood from the inside out" with a patented process that restructures the material's molecules to make it ten times stronger than regular wood. More about Superwood is a chemically modified wood that is stronger than steel
To conclude our Building with Cob series, we have collected eight buildings that demonstrate the potential of cob as a modern-day material, including a home in Kazakhstan and a nursery in the UK. More about Eight contemporary buildings that make a case for cob