Opinion: Diller, Scofidio + Renfro's The Broad museum in Los Angeles is an elegant exercise in mundanity, says Mimi Zeiger. More about "An object lesson for designers caught on the hamster wheel of producing interestingness"
News: Foster + Partners has released photographs of its new Apple store in Hangzhou – one of five new shops that the company is opening in China ahead of Chinese New Year (+ slideshow). More about Foster + Partners completes Apple store in Hangzhou, China
News: Apple has been granted a patent for a wireless headset that mounts an iPhone in front of the eyes, hinting at the company's expansion into virtual reality. More about Apple wins patent approval for wireless virtual reality headset
News: technology giant Apple is designing an electric vehicle that could revolutionise automobiles and challenge electric car manufacturer Tesla, according to reports that emerged over the weekend. More about Apple rumoured to be working on an electric car
News: updated footage of construction work on the Foster + Partners-designed Apple Campus 2 in California has been published on YouTube by another amateur videographer using a drone-mounted GoPro video camera (+ movie). More about Drone movie shows progress on Apple Campus construction
News: musician Kanye West has partnered with Adidas to produce Yeezy Season 1 – a collection of clothing and footwear that he described as the world's "first solutions-based" clothing line (+ slideshow). More about Kanye West debuts first Adidas collection and Yeezy Boost trainer
Asked to design a New York home for chickens rather than people, Architecture Research Office has completed a metal-clad bunker featuring wooden nesting boxes and underfloor heating (+ slideshow). More about Sheffer Chicken Coop is a metal-clad New York home for eight hens
Business news: luxury brand B&B Italia could be sold to a major American furniture group, Dezeen understands. More about B&B Italia in takeover talks with American suitor
News: the jury tasked with selecting the design for a new hotel adjacent to Peter Zumthor's Therme Vals spa in Switzerland has "dissociated itself" with the client's decision to appoint Los Angeles firm Morphosis. More about Jury distances itself from Morphosis appointment for Vals hotel
News: architecture studio SO-IL's installation for the New York architecture gallery has been vandalised within weeks of opening – but the firm's co-founder says he "knew" it would be a target for graffiti. More about SO-IL's Storefront gallery installation vandalised with "poor quality" graffiti
Snøhetta has renovated a Brooklyn warehouse to create a studio for Cuban-American artist José Parlá, whose murals adorn the lobbies of One World Trade Center and the Barclays Center (+ slideshow). More about Brooklyn warehouse overhauled by Snøhetta to create art studio for painter José Parlá
News: the firm led by American architect Thom Mayne has been selected to design a new 100-suite hotel adjacent to Peter Zumthor's Therme Vals spa in Switzerland. Update: the competition jury has now "dissociated itself" from the decision. More about Morphosis chosen for hotel beside Peter Zumthor's Therme Vals spa
News: Spanish architect Andrés Jaque has won this year's MoMA PS1 Young Architects Program contest, with plans to turn the courtyard of the New York gallery into a water filtration plant. More about Andrés Jaque to create water-purifying pipe network for MoMA PS1 Young Architects Program
News: two pavilions – one made out of broken umbrellas and bicycle wheels, and one constructed from materials used in oyster cultivation – are due to be installed this summer on Governors Island in New York. More about Summer pavilions built from old rope and bicycle wheels to open in New York
This timber-clad beach house in Long Island was designed by New York studio Bates Masi with an angular form that funnels outwards to maximise living space on a restricted site (+ slideshow). More about Bates Masi completes timber-clad Hamptons retreat beside the beach
News: Frank Gehry's new teaching and research facility for Sydney's University of Technology has now opened, and has been described as "the most beautiful squashed brown paper bag" (+ slideshow). More about Frank Gehry's "paper bag" business school opens in Sydney
News: America has nominated 10 buildings by Frank Lloyd Wright for international listed status – including the influential architect's Guggenheim Museum in New York and his only free-standing skyscraper (+ slideshow). More about Frank Lloyd Wright buildings nominated for UNESCO World Heritage List
Photo essay: intrigued about the American county that is home to Robert Smithson's Spiral Jetty, photographer Anthony Gerace visited Box Elder in Utah, only to find a "total sense of abandonment" (+ slideshow). More about Anthony Gerace photographs Utah's "completely empty" Box Elder County
Feature: the office cubicle turns 50 years old this year. Andrew Shanahan investigates the history of the system that revolutionised office design and which, after falling out of favour, is now being re-evaluated. More about The office cubicle: from commercial flop to best-selling design classic
The arches of the Great Hall inside Washington DC's National Building Museum currently host 60 models of conceptual and completed buildings, for BIG's first ever exhibition in North America (+ slideshow). More about BIG's Hot to Cold exhibition opens at the National Building Museum