Architecture firm OMA has completed its first tower on America's West Coast: a glass condo high-rise in San Francisco with stepped corners. More about OMA completes stepped glass tower The Avery in San Francisco
The husband-and-wife team behind American firm J_spy have created a retreat for their family in Upstate New York that features a compact interior and basic materials like concrete masonry and standing-seam metal. More about J_spy uses concrete blocks to form Catskills House in the New York countryside
Spanish practice SelgasCano has revealed its design for Second Home in Hollywood – a sprawling co-working campus comprising bright yellow work pods interspersed with lush planting. More about SelgasCano designs "most ambitious and bold" Second Home for Los Angeles
American architecture firm Studio Gang has released an updated set of renderings of its undulating addition to the American Natural History Museum in Manhattan. More about Studio Gang unveils new details of Natural History Museum extension in New York
Beauty brand Glossier has teamed up with landscape designer Studio Lily Kwong to create a pop-up shop in Seattle that is filled with plant-covered mounds and splashes of pink and purple. More about Glossier pop-up shop in Seattle features rolling hills covered in moss and flowers
Perkins+Will has overhauled the North American headquarters of consumer goods company Unilever, with new communal areas designed to help employees forget they're in a suburban office park. More about Perkins+Will creates "Instagram-ready" spaces in Unilever's New Jersey campus
Kettal has launched a replica of the penthouse pavilion atop VDL Research House, the former Los Angeles home of modernist architect Richard Neutra. More about Kettal to sell replicas of penthouse from Richard Neutra's California home
A major retrospective of the work of designer Virgil Abloh has opened in Chicago, bringing together everything from architectural constructions to Nike sneaker designs and slogan rugs for IKEA. More about Virgil Abloh's first solo exhibition opens at Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
US studios SHoP Architects and Gensler are among eight practices that have created concept designs of "skyports" for Uber, which will be hubs for both ground-based and drone taxi fleets. More about SHoP and Gensler reveal designs for Uber Air Skyports
Los Angeles design firm Studio Shamshiri and Ace Hotel's in-house creative team have designed this hotel in New Orleans as if it were the home of a worldy woman who has filled it with decorative souvenirs. More about Atelier Ace and Studio Shamshiri design Maison de la Luz in New Orleans like a luxury guesthouse
A large, steel sphere sourced from a shuttered paper mill has been repurposed by Seattle firm Mutuus Studio as an installation in a waterfront park in the Pacific Northwest. More about Mutuus Studio converts industrial artefact into Acid Ball installation in Washington park
New York City's Pratt Institute has named British architect and professor Harriet Harriss as the next dean of its school of architecture. More about Harriet Harriss named dean of Pratt Institute School of Architecture
McDonald's has opened a glass-fronted restaurant topped with a giant billboard on Times Square in New York City. More about Landini Associates creates "the ultimate McDonald's" on Times Square
Architect Jerome Engelking sought to avoid metaphors and "overt symbolism" while conceiving this glass-and-wood holiday home for a secluded site on New York's Long Island. More about Jerome Engelking designs Wuehrer House for forest clearing in the Hamptons
London hotelier Ennismore has opened an outpost of The Hoxton, including a co-working lobby space and rooftop pool, on the site of an old meatpacking facility in Chicago. More about The Hoxton hotel opens in Chicago's old meatpacking area
A reflective pond, a lap pool, and a jacuzzi intersperse and organise the spaces of this residence that Garret Cord Werner designed for an island in the middle of Seattle's Lake Washington. More about Garret Cord Werner includes three pools in Seattle house designed for avid swimmer
Hundreds of haute couture garments created by the House of Dior in the past 70 years are presented in a sweeping exhibition in Dallas designed by OMA partner Shohei Shigematsu. More about OMA uses array of colours and materials for Dior retrospective at Dallas art museum
With the passing of great modern architects like IM Pei and Kevin Roche, monumental architecture is becoming less relevant for today's society, says Aaron Betsky. More about "With IM Pei's death, the last of the modern monument makers has passed"
A sofa, dining table and bed furnish this shop for luxury sleepwear in Brooklyn, which was designed as a "celebration of the home" to reflect its cosy pieces. More about Lunya styles Williamsburg store like an apartment
Board-marked concrete, cement plaster and glass form the facades of two student dormitories that Skidmore, Owings & Merrill has created for an expansive housing development at the University of California, Santa Barbara. More about SOM completes Tenaya Towers in massive student housing project at California university