Los Angeles studio Mini Inno added a Japanese-style tea room to a 1960s property in Joshua Tree National Park while turning it into a holiday home. More about Mini Inno renovates mid-century home Villa Kuro in Joshua Tree
Green tartan wall coverings and leather banquette seating are among the references to traditional public houses that The LADG has used in this Culver City bar. More about California bar Auld Fella is influenced by the pubs of Dublin and Belfast
Seattle architecture firm SHED has designed this compact home for a couple who wanted to live in a smaller dwelling on their own property. More about SHED creates Alley Cat dwelling for Seattle backyard
New York architect Maria Milans del Bosch has designed a house and studio for herself in the Catskills with interventions that are mindful of the natural setting. More about Camp O is an architect's retreat in Upstate New York
Velvet green seating is coupled with wood latticework in this Japanese restaurant located inside Brooklyn creative hub A/D/O. More about Studio Love is Enough designs Japanese restaurant inside MINI creative hub A/D/O
American architect Marc Thorpe has developed a conceptual installation near Marfa and the border of Mexico that resembles a large spaceship landing on earth. More about Marc Thorpe imagines Citizens of Earth installation at US-Mexico border
Multidisciplinary group Wevolve Labs modelled its pavilion for last year's Burning Man on a bird-like dinosaur, with large wings that lit up at night and shaded seats underneath. More about Large "sail-like canopy" topped Burning Man installation Archaeopteryx
Pale wood decorates this Blue Bottle Coffee cafe in Brooklyn designed by Bohlin Cywinski Jackson, which the American practice has updated to accommodate more people. More about Bohlin Cywinski Jackson touches up its design for Williamsburg's Blue Bottle Coffee
SOM's David Childs has updated his design for a pair of towers proposed for 400 Lake Shore Drive, the site of Santiago Calatrava's scrapped Chicago Spire. More about David Childs redesigns halted towers for Chicago Spire site
Retractable walls and numerous terraces feature in this expansive California home designed by US architecture firm Olson Kundig. More about Olson Kundig designs Los Angeles house "to feel like an adventure"
Large stretches of glass front this black house in San Francisco, which local firm Michael Hennessey Architecture designed to exhibit alternatives to "conventional building strategies". More about Michael Hennessey creates modern bay windows for San Francisco townhouse
US shoe company Rothy's has launched handbags that it claims are made from 100 per cent recycled materials. More about Rothy's creates handbag collection using ocean-bound plastics
The Countryside, The Future exhibition at the Guggenheim says more about the shortcomings of its curator Rem Koolhaas than it does about the countryside, argues architecture critic Inga Saffron. More about "The latest indulgence of the architect and self-proclaimed visionary"
NYCxDesign and Chicago's NeoCon furniture fair have been postponed due to the US outbreak of coronavirus. More about NYCxDesign and NeoCon 2020 postponed due to coronavirus
The American Institute of Architects' annual conference, which was set to feature Virgil Abloh as keynote speaker, has been postponed this year following US outbreaks of coronavirus. More about AIA postpones 2020 architecture conference due to coronavirus
Los Angeles studio Commune has used plaster walls, wood built-ins and terracotta tile floors to create a rustic feel inside this bakery in Santa Monica. More about Commune designs gluten-free BreadBlok bakery in California with creamy interiors
Aaron Betsky has resigned as president of Frank Lloyd Wright's School of Architecture at Taliesin and will become the director of Virginia Tech's School of Architecture + Design. More about Aaron Betsky named director of Virginia Tech School of Architecture and Design
New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art, MoMA and Guggenheim museums have closed indefinitely in a bid to contain the spread of coronavirus in the city. More about The Met, MoMA and Guggenheim close in response to spread of coronavirus in New York
An angular platform protruding from the 100th floor of Kohn Pedersen Fox's Hudson Yards skyscraper is the "highest outdoor sky deck" in the western hemisphere. More about Edge sky deck protrudes from supertall Hudson Yards skyscraper
First lady of the United States Melania Trump has revealed that a tennis pavilion, which takes cues from the neoclassical style of the White House, is being built on the grounds of the presidential residence. More about Melania Trump unveils classical Tennis Pavilion at the White House