A flagship store and gallery for camera brand Leica has arrived in New York's Meatpacking District, designed by Format Architecture Office with a cream brick-screen facade. More about Brick lattice fronts Leica store in New York by Format Architecture Office
American architect David Rockwell has designed the sets for an outdoor theatre series in New York composed of short plays based on the seven deadly sins and performed in empty shop windows. More about David Rockwell displays the seven deadly sins in shop windows
Photographs show Little Island, the park designed by Thomas Heatherwick on the Hudson River in New York, ahead of its official opening tomorrow. More about Photos reveal Thomas Heatherwick's Little Island in New York ahead of opening
New York studio Snarkitecture has filled a Manhattan gallery with 168 white spherical orbs that light up in a blue hue when touched. More about Snarkitecture fills New York gallery with lights that resemble "large lollipops"
Starbucks has unveiled a sprawling outpost "inspired by the history of manufacturing" in Manhattan's Meatpacking District, with copper pipes overhead that move coffee beans around the site. More about Starbucks Reserve Roastery cafe opens in New York's Meatpacking
A fictional meeting between Finnish architect Alvar Aalto and American ceramicist Edith Heath formed the basis of a collaboration that combines their designs, displayed in an installation by LA studio The Archers. More about Artek and Heath present limited-edition tiled furniture in 1960s setting
British designer Es Devlin has rethought the typical residential sales gallery, using a trio of installations to promote a pair of twisting towers that architecture firm BIG has designed for New York. More about Es Devlin presents BIG's The XI towers in installation triptych
American designer Sam Stewart has created stick chairs dressed in plastic sheaths, a bed-dining table hybrid and a bench press for a "person or creature" that might inhabit a space at New York gallery Fort Gansevoort. More about Sam Stewart imagines furniture for fictional New York apartment occupant
US firm Studio Gang has unveiled plans for a glass tower that is "sculpted by the angles of the sun", adjacent to the High Line in New York's Meatpacking district. More about Studio Gang reveals High Line-hugging Solar Carve Tower for New York
Interior designer Sheena Murphy used plywood, blackened steel and felt to create the Scandinavian-influenced office for Dots, the New York company behind popular design-led games Two Dots and Dots & Co. More about Felt-lined booths and Scandinavian furniture feature in office for mobile game studio Dots
Italian architect Renzo Piano has completed his new home for the Whitney Museum of American Art – an asymmetric steel and concrete assembly in Manhattan's Meatpacking District (+ slideshow). More about Renzo Piano's new building for the Whitney set to open