Readers are discussing the challenges and rewards of building on steep, sloping sites – like Australian studio CplusC Architectural Workshop did for this family home in Palm Beach, Sydney.

Commenters are reacting to PETA's claim – in an exclusive interview with Dezeen – that billions of bird deaths are due to the "simple indifference" of architects designing glazed and mirrored buildings.

Readers are curious about Japanese architecture studio KKAA YTAA's use of exposed concrete blocks for a simple holiday home.

Commenters are questioning the impact of land artist Michael Heizer's recently completed monumental City sculpture in the Nevada desert.

The Hollywood actor's Make It Right foundation has agreed a $20.5m settlement for owners of defective New Orleans homes it built. Readers feel Pitt was only trying to help.

Designs for Los Angeles' third tallest skyscraper, as part of plans for a "modern interpretation of an Italian hill town" in Downtown LA, have been met with scepticism by commenters.

Wildfires influenced the design of this Campout House in northern California by Faulkner Architects. Readers think the wildfires should have been a reason to reconsider building in the first place.

The co-founder of WeWork, Adam Neumann, is launching a housing startup called Flow. Commenters are already dooming it to fail.

This office in Portland is the world's largest commercial Living Building (a building that "produces more energy than it needs") but readers want to understand how much of it is actually timber.

Commenters have lots of thoughts about the materials chosen for Konishi Gaffney's conversion of a 1950s garage into an artists' studio.

Readers love Herchell Arquitectos' courtyard house, designed with a "boutique hotel concept" in a Mexican forest.

Stacey Farrell's seaside holiday house, nestled in the coastal dunes of Omaui, New Zealand, has split commenters' opinions.

Reader's are trying their best at some puns having read about this ice-cube necklace that aims to demonstrate water is "one of the most sought-after luxury goods".