Architecture studio Hou de Sousa has built three volumes, constructed rebar and covered in bright cords, to form "gateways, apertures and seating" in front of New York City's Flatiron Building for this holiday season. More about Hou de Sousa wraps rebar in colourful string for installation outside New York's Flatiron Building
New York City has introduced a bill that will rank and grade large buildings according to energy efficiency. More about New York City buildings to receive "energy efficiency grade" in 2020
A 1930s soda factory in Williamsburg, Brooklyn has been transformed into bathhouse with a subterranean spa influenced by Scandinavian saunas, Russian banyas and Turkish hammams. More about Bathhouse spa with sensory deprivation tank opens in old Williamsburg soda factory
An embroidered floor lamp and eel-skin clad cabinet are among the objects in a collection by US lighting studio Apparatus that took direction from musical scores. More about Apparatus designs Interlude furniture for "imagined, modernist concert hall"
New York studio Dean Works has reorganised a former studio apartment in Brooklyn around a multi-functional plywood volume that forms arches, walls and cabinets. More about Plywood cabinetry makes the most of space in Brooklyn Loft for couple with two dogs
White quartz, Venetian plaster and various types of wood feature in this bright and airy tea shop, designed by architecture firm New Practice Studio. More about New Practice Studio infuses Manhattan tea house with natural materials and Asian motifs
Hunters Point Library in New York's Long Island City by Steven Holl Architects has been hit with a class action lawsuit for its "total disregard" of people with mobility disabilities. More about Hunters Point Library slapped with lawsuit for inaccessibility issues
Italian architect Renzo Piano has completed his 565 Broome Soho – a New York condominium development comprising two identical glass towers. More about 565 Broome Soho is Renzo Piano's first residential project in New York City
This exhibition at the Judd Foundation in New York pairs together furniture by architect Alvar Aalto and paintings by sculptor John Chamberlain from late American artist Donald Judd's archive. More about Donald Judd's collection of works by Alvar Aalto and John Chamberlain go on show in New York
Turkish artist Refik Anadol has used artificial intelligence to turn millions of photographs of New York into the Machine Hallucination film. More about Refik Anadol uses AI to create mesmerising film of New York City
Los Angeles clothing brand Lunya has created its New York store with vintage and contemporary finds to decorate zones as if they were a dining room, bedroom and living area. More about Lunya styles Manhattan store like a "glitzy, upscale New York apartment"
Steven Holl Architects has brushed off criticisms of its Hunters Point Library in Long Island City, which opened in September with a number of areas inaccessible to people with disabilities. More about Steven Holl dismisses concerns over new Long Island City library as "wrinkles"
US studio The New Design Project has decorated this West Village cookie shop with speckled terrazzo, beige tiles and creamy walls to reference the baked goods for sale. More about West Village cookie shop decorated with palette of "biscuit beiges and chocolate browns"
Skidmore Owings & Merrill has revealed plans to build a glass-and-ceramic office building for Disney's New York operations, called 4 Hudson Square. More about SOM to create Disney headquarters in New York City clad in green terracotta panels
Thomas Heatherwick's Pier 55 park within New York's Hudson River has been renamed Little Island, as visuals and a video detailing the project's construction are released. More about Heatherwick Studio's Pier 55 renamed Little Island
Fashion "flashbacks and fast-forwards" will be the theme of next year's major fashion exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, with exhibition design by Es Devlin. More about The Met's Costume Institute announces time-travelling theme for Spring 2020 exhibition
A jagged edged bookshelf and a series of modular armchairs are among the rare and limited-edition furniture designs by Italian architect and designer Gaetano Pesce on show at New York gallery Friedman Benda. More about New York exhibition displays rarely seen furniture by Italian architect Gaetano Pesce
Large blocks covered in LED screens show projections and form clothing displays in this New York City retail space designed by architecture firm Leong Leong. More about Leong Leong adds monolithic projection screens to R13's brickwork flagship store
Bear-shaped armchairs and cushions embroidered with red lips are among French designer Pierre Yovanovitch's latest collection of furnishings, which are on display at New York gallery R & Company. More about Pierre Yovanovitch exhibit explores "budding romance" between imaginary characters
British curator Beatrice Galilee has launched a new architecture forum that will kick-off as a conference in New York next year, with speakers including Elizabeth Diller and Shohei Shigematsu. More about The World Around architecture forum to launch in New York next year