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
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
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
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
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
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
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