New York 2015: New York design isn't just about lighting. In the latest in our series of interviews with the city's designers, Marc Thorpe explains why multidisciplinary studios like his are the ones finding favour with European brands (+ slideshow). More about "America is not a style, America is an idea" says Marc Thorpe
This beach house by Ruhl Walker Architects is raised above the landscape, helping it to have a minimal impact on the fragile coastal ecosystem of its Cape Cod setting (+ slideshow). More about Beach house by Ruhl Walker Architects designed to "curve and shift" with the landscape
A faceted glass dome peaks above the prayer hall of Toronto's new Charles Correa-designed Islamic cultural centre, which shares a patch of parkland with Fumihiko Maki's Aga Khan Museum (+ slideshow). More about Charles Correa's crystalline Islamic centre joins the Aga Khan Museum in a Toronto park
London-based Soup Architects has completed a pair of matching artist's studios between the trees and pond of a garden in Suffolk, England (+ slideshow). More about Soup Architects adds a pair of art studios to a leafy Suffolk garden
Designer Paul Cocksedge has completed a spiral staircase featuring a garden, a library and a tea bar (+ slideshow). More about Paul Cocksedge's Living Staircase includes plants, a mini library and tea-brewing facilities
A trio of overlapping buildings all pointed in different directions make up this house in South Korea, designed by Engineforce Architects to accommodate a family of three (+ slideshow). More about Every occupant has their own domain in South Korean home by Engineforce Architects
Incubating chicken eggs and objects made by prison inmates are among the artefacts currently on view in a tiny museum in a New York City alleyway (+ slideshow). More about Tiny New York museum showcases objects obtained through rapid-response collecting
Angular balconies and timber panelling characterise these housing developments by architects Zaha Hadid and Daniel Libeskind, both located in Milan's fast-growing City Life district (+ slideshow). More about Zaha Hadid and Daniel Libeskind build a community of 650 homes in Milan
Taking cues from Japanese gardens, landscape architecture firm Surface Design has created a series of planted terraces for a renovated home in San Francisco (+ slideshow). More about Surface Design creates verdant terraces for Butterfly House in San Francisco
Each floor of this timber-clad family home on an Amsterdam peninsula features wide windows and steel-framed balconies, offering views out over the IJ river (+ slideshow). More about A Room with a View by MeesVisser is an Amsterdam home overlooking the IJ river
Stockholm studio Form Us With Love has extended its beer exhibition at the city's Spritmuseum to include a venue for outdoor drinking (+ slideshow). More about Form Us With Love creates waterfront beer garden for a Stockholm museum
Dutch architecture office UNStudio has completed the first two buildings of a major new university campus in Singapore, designed as a seamless network of rooms, balconies and courtyards (+ slideshow). More about UNStudio completes first buildings for new Singapore university campus
This sunken pavilion featuring a swimming pool and gym is set below the lawn of a home in northern Italy, and is connected to a new conservatory in front of the house by an underground tunnel (+ slideshow). More about Act_Romegialli completes underground swimming pool in the grounds of an Italian home
A long, horizontal block is hoisted above the ground on a collection of concrete pods, providing views of paddy fields and mountains for the home, gallery and studio of an embroidery artist in Japan's Shiga Prefecture (+ slideshow). More about Satoru Hirota Architects creates a "floating" home and gallery for an embroidery artist
The UK's first new electricity pylon in 90 years has been installed, with six structures designed by Danish architect Erik Bystrup now in place (+ slideshow). More about New pylons by architect Erik Bystrup will "become part of the landscape"
This parking garage in the Miami Design District features a textured facade of perforated metal panels, designed by architecture firms IwamotoScott and Leong Leong, with artist John Baldessari (+ slideshow). More about IwamotoScott and Leong Leong wrap a Miami parking garage in perforated screens
Architects including Steven Holl and Bjarke Ingels have created Lego buildings for an installation by artist Olafur Eliasson on the High Line in Manhattan (+ slideshow). More about OMA, Renzo Piano, BIG and Steven Holl build Lego structures for Olafur Eliasson installation
Milan Expo 2015: this trio of wooden pavilions was designed by Herzog & de Meuron to showcase the principles of the Slow Food movement, which promotes regional gastronomy and a slow pace of life (+ slideshow). More about Herzog & de Meuron presents an alternative to "pompous and unsustainable" Expo pavilions
A triangular courtyard is contained at the centre of this three-sided high school in South Korea by Nameless Architecture (+ slideshow). More about Triangle School by Nameless Architecture has a three-sided courtyard at its centre
German typographer Erik Spiekermann has designed his first accessories collection – a range of scarves and pocket squares with a gridded design based on printed systems of measurement (+ slideshow). More about Erik Spiekermann's first fashion accessories are printed like wearable graph paper