You won't find slides, ping-pong tables or other faddish touches at the New York offices of advertising agency Wieden + Kennedy, designed by US architecture studio WORKac (+ slideshow). More about WORKac shuns "office as playground" for Wieden + Kennedy's NY headquarters
News: Brooklyn firm Garrison Architects has unveiled a full-size prototype for post-disaster housing described as "a step forward in the way that cities respond to natural disasters" like hurricanes Katrina and Sandy. More about Modular New York homes by Garrison Architects to "create a blueprint for post-disaster housing"
News: the New York flagship store for fashion house Valentino designed by David Chipperfield Architects will open on Fifth Avenue this summer. More about David Chipperfield designs Valentino's New York flagship store
Tens of thousands of recycled plastic bottles combined to create this cloud-shaped pavilion by Brooklyn architecture and design firm StudioKCA, which has been named one of the winners of the American Institute of Architects' Small Projects Awards. More about Pavilion made from 53,780 plastic bottles among AIA Small Projects winners
News: Japanese architect Tadao Ando has unveiled designs for his first building in New York City – a seven-storey concrete apartment block in Nolita. More about Tadao Ando reveals concrete and glass apartment block for Lower Manhattan
News: construction is almost complete on a David Adjaye-designed affordable housing complex in New York's Sugar Hill district featuring a facade embossed with floral patterns (+ slideshow). More about David Adjaye's Sugar Hill housing nears completion in Harlem
News: Danish studio BIG has been granted $335 million to upgrade Lower Manhattan's storm defences, as one of six winners in the Rebuild by Design initiative to revive parts of the USA struck by Hurricane Sandy (+ slideshow). More about BIG awarded 5 million to improve Lower Manhattan storm defences
News: Massimo Vignelli – the prolific Modernist designer who created New York's subway signage and the American Airlines identity – has died in New York. More about Massimo Vignelli dies aged 83
Input Creative Studio has created a New York studio for a children's portrait photographer with a playhouse-shaped niche in one wall (+ slideshow). More about Photography studio by Input Creative Studio features a turquoise playhouse
News: rebuilding the World Trade Center site has revitalised the architectural scene in New York according to architect Craig Dykers of Snøhetta, who designed a recently opened pavilion on the memorial site (+ interview). More about Snøhetta architect says 9/11 attacks led to "a reawakening of architecture in New York"
News: a Snøhetta-designed pavilion marks the entrance to the memorial museum at the World Trade Centre site in New York, which will be inaugurated by US president Barack Obama tomorrow (+ slideshow). More about National September 11 Memorial Museum completed in New York
New York's Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) Design Store is showcasing a selection of products originally funded via crowdfunding platform Kickstarter, including a tiny slide projector and pen that draws in 3D, as part of the city's design week. More about MoMA Design Store presents Kickstarter-funded products at New York Design Week
News: Foster + Partners' controversial proposal for a $300 million (£208 million) overhaul of New York Public Library's flagship branch on Fifth Avenue has been dropped following an onslaught of criticism. More about New York Public Library abandons Foster's contentious renovation plans
American design firm Sagmeister & Walsh has created a new brand identity for New York's Jewish Museum based on traditional shapes used in Judaic symbolism (+ movies). More about Sagmeister & Walsh uses "sacred geometry" to rebrand New York's Jewish Museum
News: Dutch firm MVRDV has become the latest architect to design a penthouse apartment featuring a car elevator, offering residents the ultimate luxury: the ability to drive straight into their home. More about MVRDV-designed penthouse will feature a private elevator for cars
News: a New York developer has revealed first images of an apartment block redevelopment underway in Manhattan with interiors designed by this year's Pritzker Prize winner, Japanese architect Shigeru Ban. More about Shigeru Ban redesigns interiors for iron-clad New York apartment block
The facades of well-known buildings in Paris, New York and Brisbane have been reduced to patterned surfaces and silhouettes in this series of images by French photographer Alexander Jacques (+ slideshow). More about Alexander Jacques transforms architectural facades into abstract patterns
Layers of sand that resemble a mountainous landscape will gradually move and change shape for the duration of this installation by Mexican architect Frida Escobedo for skincare brand Aesop's New York pop-up shop. More about Patterns of sand shift over time in Frida Escobedo's installation for Aesop
News: construction has finally begun on a 216-metre skinny skyscraper designed by Foster + Partners for a site next door to Mies van der Rohe's Seagram Building in New York. More about Foster's skinny skyscraper underway beside Mies' Seagram Building
Faceted concrete staircases connect a string of social spaces inside this SOM-designed campus building for The New School in New York, visible outside the building through huge diagonal windows (+ slideshow). More about SOM completes campus building for The New School in New York