Black and white surfaces, indoor trees and a rooftop workspace all feature at the new head office for website building service Squarespace in New York. More about A+I uses "yin-yang" palette for Squarespace headquarters in New York
US architect Peter Zellner has announced plans to open a post-graduate architecture school in Los Angeles that won't charge tuition fees. More about Peter Zellner to launch Free School of Architecture in California
A long cypress-clad volume that projects from a hillside in rural Massachusetts forms this home, designed by US studio O'Neill Rose Architects for a nature-loving couple. More about O'Neill Rose creates elongated wooden home in the Berkshires
Ponds fed by the Yellowstone River provide natural water features around this home by Hughesumbanhower Architects, located on a ranch in Big Timber, Montana (+ slideshow). More about Montana house by HUUM sits beside the Yellowstone River
American firm Ward + Blake Architects has completed a residence and guest house in western Wyoming, which features rustic materials and sweeping views of the surrounding mountains (+ slideshow). More about Ward + Blake uses salvaged wood and weathering steel to clad rustic Wyoming house
US set design studio Robert Storey has designed a plant-filled temporary retail space for online store Everlane in New York, influenced by the verdant conservatory at London's brutalist Barbican Estate. More about Robert Storey's pop-up Shoe Park for Everlane references Barbican conservatory
Drawings and furniture by legendary Mexican architect Luis Barragán are on display in Manhattan, alongside the works of prominent artists who have also used colour distinctively. More about Luis Barragán exhibition in New York examines his use of colour
Californian firm Rapt Studio designed this pared-back photography studio for a company that instantly sends the results of shoots to a customer's mobile device. More about Minimal interior by Rapt Studio provides "photo studio for the Instagram era"
Multiple residences are combined into single house-shaped volumes at this development by Bestor Architecture in the Echo Park neighbourhood of Los Angeles. More about Bestor Architecture uses "stealth density" at Blackbirds housing in Los Angeles
White display stands inside this Los Angeles boutique designed by Bureau Spectacular fit together like a puzzle, forming a set of steps for events and performances. More about Bureau Spectacular creates interlocking moveable displays for Frankie Los Angeles store
Next in our series of roundups presenting houses from different US states, it's New York's turn. The Empire State's top rural residences include a Hamptons home shaded with strips of canvas and a secluded writer's retreat (+ slideshow). More about Five of the best houses in New York State on Dezeen
The thin columns and wood cladding that front this educational facility in a Pittsburgh park are designed to help the building fit in with its woodland setting (+ slideshow). More about Bohlin Cywinski Jackson's nature centre in Pittsburgh "blends with the surrounding woods"
New York developer Macro Sea has turned a warehouse at Brooklyn's Navy Yard into a workspace for tech entrepreneurs, using the building's "cathedral-like" steel trusswork to inform new elements (+ slideshow). More about Macro Sea turns abandoned Brooklyn warehouse into New Lab co-working space
American architect Wesley Walls has created a home for his family in central Arkansas that is composed of stacked boxes clad in stone, metal and glass (+ slideshow). More about Wesley Walls embeds multi-level home into forested Arkansas hillside
US firm Modus Studio has extended a rustic studio and workshop building in Fayetteville, Arkansas, to add a shop, guesthouse and entertaining areas within a steel structure built by the owner (+ slideshow). More about Modus Studio turns old workshop into Manzeum guesthouse with steel extension
US firm Bohlin Cywinski Jackson has looked to Williamsburg's industrial past to inform its interior for the first Apple Store in Brooklyn. More about Apple Store Williamsburg by Bohlin Cywinski Jackson features exposed brick walls
This hillside dwelling in rural Connecticut by Allee Architecture features a copper roof and facades made of glass, cedar and teak (+ slideshow). More about Allee Architecture creates "humane and warm" modern house in Connecticut
Global firm Gensler has completed a university building in Kansas that consists of volumes clad in concrete, glass and weathering steel, and interior spaces intended to promote unexpected interactions (+ slideshow). More about Gensler creates opportunities for "chance encounters" inside Kansas business school
San Francisco studio New Deal Design has devised a small copper-coloured device that allows users to make purchases by swiping its textured surface, as "a modern replacement for cash". More about New Deal Design's Scrip device brings tactility to digital payments
American firms Rogers Partners and Nelson Byrd Waltz have conceived a raised, tree-lined park for Atlanta, Georgia, that would be built atop rail tracks and a busy roadway (+ slideshow). More about Elevated urban park in Atlanta would stretch over a rail line and highway