Architect Annabelle Selldorf has completed a New York store for Steinway & Sons, featuring wooden design elements that reference the company's handcrafted pianos (+ slideshow). More about Annabelle Selldorf designs New York showroom for piano maker Steinway & Sons
WeWork has unveiled images of its first foray into the co-living trend – a residential block with shared living spaces in New York's financial district, run by new sister company WeLive (+ slideshow). More about Co-working company WeWork unveils its first co-living apartments in New York
Opinion: a proposal to surround New York's Central Park with a giant "sidescraper" epitomises architects' disregard for designed landscapes, says president of The Cultural Landscape Foundation, Charles A Birnbaum. More about "Disparity in the values assigned to architecture and landscape architecture continues"
US designers Yitan Sun and Jianshi Wu have proposed transforming Manhattan's Central Park into a sunken landscape encircled by a below-grade megastructure with office, housing, retail and cultural space. More about Sunken "sidescraper" bordering New York's Central Park wins skyscraper competition
US firm Barker Freeman Design Office has renovated a slender brick row house in Brooklyn and added a two-storey extension with a glass wall overlooking a garden (+ slideshow). More about Barker Freeman overhauls narrow Brooklyn row house for a family of four
American architect Nicholas Hunt has built a micro studio in the backyard of his Brooklyn home, intended to provide "solitude within the immense landscape of New York City". More about Architect Nicholas Hunt creates a tiny retreat in his Brooklyn garden
The Museum of Arts and Design in New York has opened an exhibition that shows how Belgian artists Studio Job "lost naivety and gained professionalism" (+ slideshow). More about Studio Job's MAD House retrospective opens in New York
Fungal flowers coated in metal and a sofa upholstered with fake grass are among the pieces in a solo show of work by Japanese botanical artist Makoto Azuma in New York (+ slideshow). More about Makoto Azuma's New York exhibition aims to make visitors "radically reconsider the power of flowers"
New York 2016: British designer Lee Broom is opening his first dedicated US retail outlet in New York, billed as a "Postmodernist theatre" to showcase and sell his furniture and lighting (+ slideshow). More about Lee Broom to open pop-up New York store off Soho's Broome Street
A new exhibition at the Pratt Manhattan Gallery in New York showcases a range of futuristic fashion concepts, including a shrug that reveals when the wearer is distressed and a dress with integrated lie detectors (+ slideshow). More about Coded Couture exhibition in New York presents garments that detect lies and read tweets
Cocoon9, an American designer and manufacturer of prefabricated dwellings, has created a collection of micro homes, with the smallest one starting at 15 square metres (+ slideshow). More about Prefabricated tiny homes by Cocoon9 designed to meet demand for "efficiency and luxury"
New York-based Leeser Architecture has inserted angular and brightly coloured stairwells into an ageing industrial building in Brooklyn to create a vibrant office for creative professionals and entrepreneurs (+ slideshow). More about Leeser Architecture transforms Brooklyn factory into colourful co-working space
Swiss studio Herzog & de Meuron has completed the restoration of a 19th-century room at the Park Avenue Armory, a cultural building in Manhattan with interiors by Tiffany & Co's first design director Louis C Tiffany (+ slideshow). More about Herzog & de Meuron restores a Park Avenue Armory room designed by Louis C Tiffany
A capsule Chamber gallery exhibition covering 10 years of work by designers Studio Job is on view at the Armory Show art fair in New York (+ slideshow). More about 10 Years of Studio Job on view at the Armory Show art fair in New York
Opinion: the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art's temporary move in to the Whitney's old unprotected Breuer building is the result of behind-the-scenes machinations of a major donor. Thank goodness, says Alan G Brake. More about "New York should give Breuer's building lasting protection"
The schematic design for a glass-clad Islamic cultural centre in New York by local architecture firm Buro Koray Duman aims to dispel fear-based attitudes towards the Islamic faith. More about Buro Koray Duman aims to dispel fears about Islam through design of New York cultural centre
New York-based Beyer Blinder Belle Architects & Planners sought to preserve the "authentic patina of aging materials" in its subtle refurbishment of the former Whitney Museum, which will reopen this month as The Met Breuer. More about Official photos revealed of The Met Breuer ahead of public opening this month
Dutch designer Maarten Baas will present his latest furniture collection, Carapace, at an exhibition opening this week at Carpenters Workshop Gallery in New York (+ slideshow). More about Maarten Baas exhibition in New York showcases furniture based on turtle and beetle shells
Via 57 West, the tetrahedron-shaped Manhattan apartment tower by BIG, is preparing to welcome its first group of tenants next month. More about New York "courtscraper" by Bjarke Ingels set to open in March
The World Trade Center Transportation Hub, designed by Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava, is scheduled to partially open next week in Lower Manhattan, more than a decade after work began. More about Santiago Calatrava's World Trade Center transit terminal to quietly open next week