US studio CCY Architects has clad a mountainside house in patinated copper panels and tilted the roof to adhere with the topography of its site in Colorado. More about CCY architects wraps Colorado house in patinated copper
California architecture studio Marmol Radziner has completed a black-clad, "modernist" skyscraper in downtown Los Angeles, which is now the tallest residential structure in California, according to the studio. More about Marmol Radziner completes California's tallest residential skyscraper
Interiors practice Sundholm Studio has refreshed the 30-year-old Nanas restaurant in Durham, North Carolina, with strong colours, bespoke timber joinery and metalwork. More about Sundholm Studio revamps Nanas restaurant to capture "spirit of grandmothers"
Vancouver studio Laura Killam Architecture has created a beachside cabin in British Columbia with a slanted roof that responds to the site's climate. More about Laura Killam Architecture tops beachside cabin with slanted roof in Canada
Micro homes are not a humane response to the homelessness crisis, writes Cynthia Griffith as part of our Social Housing Revival series. More about "Tiny homes are not the big solution to homelessness that we need"
Rectilinear volumes of timber and concrete form a residence in coastal Washington by MW Works that merges with the wooded landscape and is "designed to be overlooked". More about MW Works designs Longbranch house to blend with forest setting
Graffiti on the abandoned Oceanwide Plaza towers is a physical manifestation of increasing tensions over the wealth disparities that blight downtown Los Angeles, writes Shane Reiner-Roth. More about "The people of Los Angeles waited patiently for half a decade to make use of a useless site"
Los Angeles studio 22RE has used pale-green stucco informed by Miami's colours and golf courses for the interiors of a golf clothing boutique in the city. More about 22RE invokes "stillness" inside green Miami golfing boutique
Brooklyn-based Home Studios has remodelled a bar and restaurant in New York's East Village, using dark wood and velvet seating to retain a "worn-in and aged appearance". More about Home Studios refreshes The Wren pub on New York's Bowery
Delicate bamboo lighting and a collaboration between design studios Willon Perron and USM were among the collectible design projects shown at this year's Los Angeles art week. More about Nine collectible design exhibitions from Los Angeles art week
Architecture studio SO-IL has unveiled designs for the Williams College Museum of Art in the Berkshires, which will be topped with a tent-like cross-laminated timber roof. More about SO-IL designs Massachusetts museum with undulating CLT roof
US studio Boyd Architects has wrapped a house in standing seam metal and pine boards and articulated each form with a vernacular hip roof in Summerville, South Carolina. More about Boyd Architects creates monolithic-metal forms for South Carolina residence
The city of Chicago has announced plans to convert a collection of empty office buildings in the city's downtown into mixed-used and residential towers. More about Chicago plans to convert office buildings into affordable housing
Danish architecture studio BIG has designed a baseball stadium in Las Vegas with a massive metal shell and the "largest cable-net glass wall in the world". More about BIG designs "spherical armadillo" ballpark for Athletics in Las Vegas
In this week's comments update, commenters were left unimpressed by car brand Mercedes-Benz' plans for its first branded skyscraper in North America. More about "Why can't we have nice architecture in Miami?" asks commenter
Prefabricated steel modules were used to create Fire Station 67, which was designed by architecture studio Wittman Estes to be durable, adaptable and quick to construct and reconfigure. More about Wittman Estes creates "rapid assembly" fire station in southern California
A geometric residential skyscraper located on the perimeter of Central Park by architecture studio Snøhetta has topped out in New York, with the studio releasing new renderings of the project. More about Snøhetta skyscraper next to Central Park tops out
Collectible design gallery StudioTwentySeven has taken over a huge space in a Tribeca textile building, creating a warm and serene environment to present museum-sized, limited-edition pieces. More about StudioTwentySeven opens "monumental" flagship gallery in Tribeca
The team at global architecture firm Gensler's Los Angeles office has redesigned a floor of its workspace with a hospitality approach, as a pilot for the remaining spaces. More about Gensler redesigns its own LA office to have "warmth and comfort" of home
US studio Tall Architects has created a cabin that has two stacked gabled forms that are rotated into an X-shape and clad in corrugated metal near a river in southern Alabama. More about Tall Architects wraps X-shaped Alabama cabin in black metal