News: New York studio The Living has won this year's MoMA PS1 Young Architects Program competition with plans to cultivate bio-bricks from corn stalks and mushrooms, and use them to build a tower in the courtyard of the New York gallery (+ slideshow). More about Organic tower grown from agricultural waste wins MoMA PS1 Young Architects Program 2014
Japanese fashion brand Comme des Garçons has opened a branch of its London store Dover Street Market in New York City (+ slideshow). More about Dover Street Market fashion store opens in New York
News: the Williams and Tsien-designed former American Folk Art Museum in New York will be demolished just 13 years after it was built to make room for an extension to the neighbouring Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), despite an outcry from architects, conservationists and critics. More about Demolition "only option" for New York's folk art museum says MoMA director
News: architecture firm Snøhetta has concluded the first phase of a major overhaul of New York's Times Square, continuing the initiative started in 2009 to pedestrianise large sections of the popular tourist destination. More about Snøhetta completes phase one of Times Square transformation
One thousand editions of literary journal The Paris Review cover the ceiling of skincare brand Aesop's new store in Chelsea, New York (+ slideshow). More about Aesop's Chelsea boutique is shrouded in copies of The Paris Review
Sunglasses by accessories designer Linda Farrow are presented on golden beams embedded into gravel mounds at this pop-up shop in New York by design studio Neiheiser & Valle (+ slideshow). More about Pop-up shop displays sunglasses on golden girders embedded in gravel
This New York loft conversion by local architect Ali Tayar is divided using bespoke prefabricated panels based on a Swiss modular housing system from the 1960s (+ slideshow). More about New York loft conversion based on a 1960s modular Swiss house by Ali Tayar
News: new images unveiled this week reveal that the third and final phase of New York's High Line park will feature an enclosed amphitheatre filled with plants. More about Plant-filled amphitheatre proposed for the High Line's final stretch
News: One World Trade Center in New York has been officially declared tallest building in the western hemisphere, following a debate over whether the spire can contribute to its overall height. More about One World Trade Center named tallest skyscraper in western hemisphere
An exhibition about how women shaped twentieth-century design is on show at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York. More about Designing Modern Women 1890–1990 at MoMA
An exhibition exploring the latest digital design and manufacturing processes opens today at New York's Museum of Arts and Design. More about Out of Hand: Materializing the Postdigital at MAD
Designer Hella Jongerius and architect Rem Koolhaas have renovated the North Delegates' Lounge at the United Nations buildings in New York (+ slideshow). More about United Nations North Delegates' Lounge by Hella Jongerius and Rem Koolhaas
London designer Paul Cocksedge's first solo exhibition, at Friedman Benda in New York, features a table folded from a single sheet of steel (+ slideshow). More about Capture exhibition by Paul Cocksedge
Danish office BIG has designed a triangular viewing platform for Brooklyn Bridge Park that angles up from the ground like a huge fin (+ slideshow). More about Brooklyn Bridge Park Pier 6 by BIG
The former TWA Flight Center terminal designed by architect Eero Saarinen at the John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York is set to be converted into a hotel and conference centre. More about Eero Saarinen's JFK terminal to become a hotel
Architecture studio Snøhetta of Oslo and New York has revealed designs for a community library in Queens, New York, with a shimmering golden exterior and a triangular entrance at one corner. More about Far Rockaway Branch Library by Snøhetta
News: New York studio SHoP Architects has revealed its design for a 411-metre skinny skyscraper in Manhattan on a plot that is just 13 metres wide. More about SHoP Architects designs skinny skyscraper for New York
Dezeen and MINI World Tour: with four cities down and four to go, we're halfway through our Dezeen and MINI World Tour. Before our next stop at London Design Festival in September, here are some movie highlights from our trips to Cape Town, Milan, New York and Berlin. More about Dezeen and MINI World Tour: pit stop
In our second movie filmed at the opening of the new Camper store in New York, Japanese designer and Nendo founder Oki Sato admits to Dezeen that he is not very good at drawing, but that his sketches are an important first step in all of his designs. Update: this interview is featured in Dezeen Book of Interviews, which is on sale now for £12. More about "My sketches are really awful" - Nendo's Oki Sato
In this movie Dezeen filmed at the opening of the new Camper store in New York, Japanese designer and Nendo founder Oki Sato explains why he covered the interior walls of the store with over a thousand white plastic shoes. Update: this interview is featured in Dezeen Book of Interviews, which is on sale now for £12. More about "We created an interior by copying and pasting a single product" - Nendo's Oki Sato