Actor Brad Pitt has signed up thirteen architectural practices - including Adjaye Architects (above and below), Morphosis, MVRDV and Shigeru Ban Architects - for the Make It Right housing project in New Orleans. More about Housing for New Orleans by David Adjaye, Morphosis, MVRDV, Shigeru Ban and others
Architect Daniel Libeskind's extention to the Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco is nearing completion. More about Contemporary Jewish Museum Extension by Daniel Libeskind
Los Angeles architect François Perrin of Air Architecture has recently completed this guest house for a Buddhism expert in Brentwood, California. More about Guest House for an Anthropologist by Air Architecture
The Farm Project, a mobile working kitchen with live-in livestock, travelled to Florida for Design Miami last month. More about The Farm Project by Mike Meiré at Design Miami
Blue, a residential tower by architect Bernard Tschumi, has opened on New York's Lower East Side. More about Bernard Tschumi’s Blue tower opens
Tokyo Design Week: New York's Museum of Modern Art has opened a new design shop in Tokyo. More about MoMA Design Store in Tokyo
Steven Holl Architects have completed an interior project at the Department of Philosophy in the Arts & Sciences faculty at New York University. More about NYU Department of Philosophy by Steven Holl Architects
Artjail is a satirical proposal for the Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia that involves moving the famous art collection to a new building in the centre of the city and combining it with a youth prison and gambling facilities. More about Artjail in Philadelphia
Here is a set of renderings and plans of the new academic building for the Cooper Union college in New York, designed by Morphosis. More about Cooper Union by Morphosis
Design studio Commonwealth and digital artist Joshua Davis have come together for a new exhibition in New York that combines stereolithography, porcelain and graphic design. More about Tropism: Commonwealth vs. Joshua Davis
Work is about to start on the construction of 166 Perry Street, an apartment building in New York designed by Asymptote. More about 166 Perry Street by Asymptote
Architect Daniel Libeskind has unveiled Spirit House Chair, his first commercial furniture design.
The stainless steel chair has been created for the interior of his extension to the Royal Ontario Museum, which opens next month. More about Spirit House Chair by Daniel Libeskind
Live from Milan: architects Foster + Partners have designed new versions of their aluminium chair for Emeco, plus new tables and a stool. More about Foster + Partners for Emeco
Live from Milan: London creative agency Wieden + Kennedy have posted two videos on YouTube of them trying to destroy an Emeco Navy chair. More about Emeco Navy Chair catapult test
Here is a set of new images of the extension to the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City by architect Steven Holl. More about Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art by Steven Holl
We're a bit late with our coverage of the news that Richard Rogers has won the Pritzker Prize More about Richard Rogers wins Pritzker Prize
Santiago Calatrava has unveiled new designs for the Chicago Spire - a 150-storey condiminum tower proposed for Lake Shore Drive (via Archidose). More about Santiago Calatrava in Chicago
Los Angeles architects Ball-Nogues have won the Young Architects Program 2007 competition to design a temporary open-air installation at the P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center in Queens, New York. More about Ball-Nogues win P.S.1 summer competition
Somewhat belatedly, here are five images of OMA’s design for 111 First Street, a mixed-use tower for the waterfront in Jersey City, USA. More about OMA in Jersey City
New York architect Steven Holl has been given the go-ahead to build a controversial study centre dedicated to Norwegian writer Knut Hamsun, thirteen years after he was commissioned to design the building. More about Steven Holl to build in Norway
