With New York's annual NYCxDesign showcase in full swing, here are a few trending materials and methods for furniture and objects to look out for. More about NYCxDesign 2025 material trends to look out for
Architecture studio Furman & Keil Architects has replaced a small dwelling with a lightweight, two-level pavilion for birdwatching alongside a waterway near Austin, Texas. More about Furman & Keil adds lightweight birdwatching pavilion to dockside near Austin
Photographer Tatsuya Tanaka used everyday objects like staplers and soap dispensers from Japanese design brand Muji to create a series of tiny artworks, on display as part of NYCxDesign 2025. More about Tatsuya Tanaka transforms Muji products into miniature dioramas
Art and design collective MSCHF has integrated auto parts from Mercedes-AMG vehicles into a furniture collection, including a couch with headlight armrests and a step-on trash can with car pedals during NYCxDesign. More about MSCHF creates furniture collection from "pile of car parts"
Design gallery Casa Valle has collaborated with furniture producer BD Barcelona on a limited edition version of Antoni Gaudí’s Battló Chair that is on show as part of NYCxDesign 2025. More about Casa Valle cloaks Gaudí's Battló Chair in dark ebony stain
Design brand Vitra has opened a showroom in a loft overlooking the Manhattan Bridge gateway in Chinatown to act as a retail and events space filled with new and classic products. More about Vitra unveils Manhattan showroom in industrial Chinatown loft
Texas studio Michael Hsu Office of Architecture has adapted a 130-year-old building in Austin into an all-day restaurant, bar and gathering space where "old world meets new world". More about Michael Hsu "breathes new life" into 1890s Austin building for Uptown Sports Club
American studio TenBerke has released designs for a proposed residential skyscraper in Downtown Brooklyn, which will integrate an "outdated" office structure and be the second-tallest building in the borough if completed. More about TenBerke designs 395 Flatbush Avenue skyscraper to integrate existing building
As the yearly festival NYCxDesign 2025 begins in New York, we have rounded up 12 restaurants, bars and cafes around New York City where festival-goers can rest, recharge and admire design during the busy week. More about Twelve design-oriented cafes and restaurants to visit during NYCxDesign
Brooklyn company Airco has teamed up with design studio Mythology to create a New York concept shop featuring a freeze-dried sandwich, space gear and a motorbike to showcase different aspects of carbon conversion technology. More about Airco creates pop-up store with futuristic pumping station to promote carbon conversion
After disasters like the Los Angeles wildfires one of the best ways for architects to help is by designing prototypes, write Dana Cuff, Emmanuel Proussaloglou and Ryan Conroy. More about "In post-disaster cities like Los Angeles, we need new model homes and we need them now"
Materials from Asia informed the co-founders of California studio OWIU Design while renovating a house for themselves in Los Angeles originally designed by architect and SCI-Arc co-founder Ray Kappe. More about OWIU remodels Ray Kappe's Glass Ridge House in LA
Design agency Koto has collaborated with online retailer Amazon's design team Amazon XCM in a rebrand of the company's distinct smile logo, while simplifying the identity of over 50 Amazon sub-brands. More about Amazon creates "more empathetic smile" for first logo update in 20 years
Modernist conservation group Docomomo US has said that it strongly disagrees with the Donald Trump administration's position on modern architecture, following news that the Marcel Breuer-designed Weaver building is set to be sold. More about Docomomo "fundamentally disagrees" with Trump administration's views on modernism
From exhibitions of historic design, such as designer Poul Kjærholm's furniture, to a collection of miniatures by Japanese retailer Muji and the much-talked-about freshman fair Shelter, here are 16 must-see events during this year's NYCxDesign. More about Sixteen key exhibitions to see during NYCxDesign 2025
Chiselled stone walls and vast stretches of glass define a coastal California home by US studio Field Architecture, which was designed to "bring the residents closer to nature with every turn". More about Field Architecture perches Big Sur House on bluff overlooking the ocean
Boston architecture studio Safdie Architects has designed a reimagined downtown "urban heart" for Portland, Maine, USA, centred around a 30-storey skyscraper designed to reference coastal architecture. More about Safdie Architects designs Maine's tallest building to resemble a lighthouse
A school in Arkansas, USA designed by studios Marlon Blackwell Architects, Eskew Dumez Ripple, and Andropogon Associates has won the fifth Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize for its "campus steeped in the rural culture of its place". More about Thaden School in Arkansas wins Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize
Design trade show Shelter has been organised to bring the "razzle dazzle" of Milan to New York during NYCxDesign, according to this exclusive interview with showrunners Deirdre Maloney and Minya Quirk. More about Shelter fair seeks to surprise even "jaded designers" during NYCxDesign
Texas-based wellness company Thermasol has designed Solaris, which it claims is the first solar-powered, off-grid sauna in the US. More about Thermasol unveils "first off-grid solar-powered sauna" in the US