American architectural firm Solomon Cordwell Buenz took cues from the colours and textures of the Sonoran Desert while designing this giant residential facility in Phoenix, for engineering students at Arizona State University. More about Sandstone and metal louvres wrap massive student housing complex in Arizona
The process to bestow landmark status on Philip Johnson's postmodern Midtown Manhattan skyscraper is now underway, a move that could stop Snøhetta's planned renovation of the building from going ahead. More about New York commences plans to landmark Philip Johnson's AT&T building
Korean designer Wonmin Park has pieced together sheets of patinated aluminium to create this collection of furniture, featuring textures that resemble paintbrush strokes. More about Wonmin Park patterns patinated aluminium furniture "like painting on a canvas"
American studio CCY Architects has created a spacious residence for a rugged site in the Rocky Mountains, which consists of timber-clad boxes linked by glazed bridges. More about Aspen retreat by CCY Architects overlooks dramatic mountainous scenery
Architecture firm Michael Hennessey has refreshed a 1960s house in California built by Joseph Eichler, the father of America's modernist housing subdivisions. More about Michael Hennessey brings mid-century details back to Eichler house in San Francisco
Dezeen promotion: design company Luminaire is organising a retrospective of work by Shiro Kuramata, one of the 20th century's most important Japanese designers, at one of its space in Miami Design District. More about Luminaire to host Shiro Kuramata exhibition during Design Miami
Architecture firm Snøhetta has designed a residential skyscraper for Manhattan's Upper West Side, which will feature an angular terrace cut into its side. More about Snøhetta unveils "chiselled" New York tower with bronze details
Three black boxes stacked on a steep lot in Los Angeles form this residence by Aaron Neubert Architects, and create outdoor living spaces without needing to use any additional land. More about Stacked volumes form Los Angeles hilltop home by Aaron Neubert Architects
Californian studio Brooks + Scarpa has shaped the roof of this art museum in Utah to create deep valleys and a huge curved porch, as a reference to the sandstone formations of nearby canyons. More about "Canyon-like" roof tops Brooks + Scarpa's Southern Utah Museum of Art
This complex at the foot of a volcano in Hawaii was modelled on a summer camp, where Walker Warner Architects has spread out living spaces across a series of cabins on the site. More about Hawaiian summer camps influence tropical island estate by Walker Warner Architects
New construction photographs have emerged, revealing that OMA has made significant progress on its trio of towers for Miami's Coconut Grove. More about OMA's Park Grove towers take shape in Miami
The rooms of this family residence in Texas by local studio Matt Fajkus Architecture are punctured with windows of different sizes, to frame views of an old tree at the centre of the plot. More about Matt Fajkus organises Austin home around old oak tree
An iconic mid-century hotel in Scottsdale, Arizona, has been brought up-to-date while retaining its original modernist features by architect Edward L Varney. More about Hotel Valley Ho receives interior refresh to complement its modernist architecture
Trompe l'oeil illusions from the renaissance era influenced the design of this ceiling installation by American studio FreelandBuck, now on view in a Smithsonian museum in Washington DC. More about FreelandBuck combines historic ceiling designs for Smithsonian museum installation
Iridescent metal pipes form display railings at the New York flagship store of Paris-based fashion and music label Maison Kitsuné. More about Mathieu Lehanneur snakes metal rails through Maison Kitsuné boutique in New York
American firm Carney Logan Burke Architects has completed a spacious residence at the base of a forested butte, which consists of linked rectilinear volumes topped with overhanging roofs. More about Carney Logan Burke clads remote Montana home in stone and oxidised steel
Blue and red threads form a colourful canopy above the workspaces of a multidisciplinary design team in Oakland, California, overhauled by architecture practice Medium Plenty. More about Colourful strings weave through renovated offices of Californian design agency
New York's empty walls could be covered with honeycomb-like clusters of pods to house the city's growing homeless population, as part of this proposal by creative agency Framlab. More about Framlab proposes parasitic hexagonal pods to sleep New York's homeless
The visitor centre designed by Foster + Partners as part of Apple's new California headquarters has welcomed its first guests. More about Foster + Partners' Apple Park Visitor Center opens to the public
Dezeen promotion: a symposium covering the most important architecture and design projects from the past 12 months will take place 9 December 2017 at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art, with speakers including architects Wang Shu and David Adjaye. More about A Year of Architecture in a Day talks return to The Met in New York