Joichi Ito has stepped down as director of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Media Lab after The New Yorker magazine claimed he made efforts to hide donations from American businessman and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. More
American firm Supernormal has created a nursery and preschool in the Boston area that features sculptural volumes wrapped in vibrant wallpaper and open play areas illuminated by speckled daylight. More
US firm William Rawn Associates has created a series of buildings for a performing arts campus in western Massachusetts, where retractable glass walls allow music to spill outdoors. More
Large triangular windows bring daylight into this dome house in western Massachusetts, which has received an extensive makeover by local firm Jess Cooney Interiors. More
American artist Doug Aitken has created a mirrored hot air balloon to travel across rural landscapes of Massachusetts this summer. More
Architecture firm Barkow Leibinger has covered this experimental arts hub at Harvard University in polycarbonate panels to make it illuminate like a "lightbox at night". More
Pelli Clarke Pelli has revealed plans to build an office tower in Boston with a folded glass facade that resembles a "dramatic theatrical curtain". More
Bjarke Ingels' firm has completed an extension to the business school at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst with gradually sloping walls that resemble falling dominos. More
Designs by Vivienne Westwood, Jean Paul Gaultier and Rei Kawakubo feature in this fashion exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, which aims to explore and question assumptions about gender-specific clothing. More
This set of highly realistic renderings unveil a cabin that American studio WOJR has designed for a forest clearing in Massachusetts, featuring a large pyramidal metal roof set on concrete block walls. More
As the brutalist Boston City Hall celebrates its 50th birthday, Aaron Betsky reflects on the building's history as a monument to social democracy, and wonders if proposed updates will bring it a happily ever after. More
A logo resembling "stencil letterforms" is printed on the exterior of the Diller Scofidio + Renfro-designed art gallery on Boston's waterfront, as part of a major branding overhaul by graphic design studio Pentagram. More
Rooftop photovoltaics and windows that automatically open and close are among the sustainable features in a small Harvard building, which Snøhetta, Skanska and university researchers have retrofitted. More
Boston is moving ahead with plans to address rising sea levels predicted as a result of climate change, using designs by New York firm SCAPE. More
Massachusetts firm Maryann Thompson Architects has enlarged a shingle-style house by opening up its ground floor, and building two additions on the grassy coastal property. More
A magazine founder, a chef and a bassist are among the diverse team that has torn down an old motel in western Massachusetts to make way for this wood-clad inn, based on "the aesthetic of a classic American motor lodge". More
A new study of opioid-related overdose deaths in Massachusetts has found that the construction industry is the worst affected, while architecture and engineering are the only occupations to have a higher death rate among women than men. More
Architecture firms Herzog & de Meuron and Beyer Blinder Belle have been enlisted to renovate and expand the main building at Harvard's Graduate School of Design, in order to support "groundbreaking collaborations" between its programmes. More
The razing of notable brutalist buildings from the 1960s and 1970s, including work by architects Paul Rudolph and Alison and Peter Smithson, is the subject of a photography exhibition at a Boston art gallery. More
American architect Deborah Richards has designed a home for her extended family in Lakeville, Massachusetts, choosing wooden shingles to clad the exterior, and bright yellow accents for the windows and doors. More
