US studio Atelier Cho Thompson has contrasted soft and bold finishes in this restaurant in New Haven, Connecticut. More about Pastel hues decorate New Haven's B-Natural Kitchen by Atelier Cho Thompson
Architecture studio Generate and developer Placetailor have unveiled plans to build a carbon-neutral apartment block in Boston using a cross-laminated timber "kit of parts". More about Generate and Placetailor to build carbon-neutral CLT apartment block in Boston
Design gallery The Future Perfect has created its third Casa Perfect showroom in Los Angeles to pay homage to its 1970s aesthetic of the Beverly Hills house it inhabits. More about The Future Perfect turns 1970s Beverly Hills house into Casa Perfect showroom
American toy designer Cas Holman advocates "open-ended play". She tells Dezeen that with children's lives becoming increasingly regimented, we need to let them play more freely. More about "We don't give children the freedom to play" says designer Cas Holman
Sidewalk Labs, the architecture and urbanism arm of Google parent company Alphabet, has unveiled a digital model for what would be the world's tallest mass-timber building, reaching 35 storeys. More about Sidewalk Labs tests possibilities for timber construction with 35-storey Proto-Model
American architect Eric J Smith has used stone, oak and glass in this poet's writing studio, to "reinforce its sense of belonging" in the Connecticut woods. More about Eric J Smith cantilevers Writer's Studio over forested hillside in Connecticut
New construction images of the Renzo Piano-designed Academy Museum of Motion Pictures have emerged, which actor Tom Hanks revealed at the Oscars will open this year. More about Renzo Piano's Academy Museum of Motion Pictures nears completion in Los Angeles
The "most radical" changes to civilisation come from the countryside rather than cities, according to architect Rem Koolhaas, who will explore the topic in a major exhibition opening at New York's Guggenheim Museum next week. More about Guggenheim New York releases teaser video ahead of Rem Koolhaas Countryside exhibition
A 1980s building designed by the late architect IM Pei to house Indiana University's art collection has received a sensitive update by Ennead Architects and architect Susan T Rodriguez that includes a new skybridge. More about IM Pei's Eskenazi Museum renovated with subtle additions in Indiana
A community of nuns have donated their convent in New Orleans to create the Mirabeau Water Garden wetlands and improve the city's system for flood prevention. More about Nuns offer up convent as wetlands to fight flooding in New Orleans
Projects by HOK, Arquitectonica and Morphosis have been singled out for criticism in president Trump's draft executive order for federal buildings, which would outlaw brutalist and deconstructivist styles if it becomes law. More about Trump's Making Federal Buildings Beautiful Again decries brutalist and deconstructivist architecture
Brooklyn creative agency An Aesthetic Pursuit has designed a bold rental house in Maine with furniture and products that guests can purchase. More about An Aesthetic Pursuit designs shoppable Airbnb in Maine
Caroline Baumann has stepped down from her position as director of the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, the New York Times has reported. More about Cooper Hewitt director Caroline Baumann resigns
New York firm O'Neill McVoy Architects has used a lightwell and clerestory window to illuminate the interiors of this studio in Connecticut for artist Gelah Penn. More about O'Neill McVoy Architects creates black Double Square Studio in Connecticut for a sculptor
American designer Marc Thorpe has created a simple, off-the-grid dwelling in Upstate New York that is meant to exist "in perfect balance with its environment". More about Edifice by Marc Thorpe is a black off-the-grid cabin in Upstate New York
Visitors are encouraged to touch, swing, stack and reconfigure colourful plush furniture staged throughout this installation, which Fort Makers designed to harness the "power of play" in its New York gallery. More about Painted canvas and padded furniture cover Fort Makers gallery for Puffy exhibit
Medieval castles and industrial buildings influenced the design of this multi-storey California home by Kristen Becker of architecture firm Mutuus Studio, which is intended to have "a modest footprint". More about Hollywood Hills House by Kristen Becker steps down a steep Los Angeles hillside
British artist Antony Gormley has created an installation in New York's Brooklyn Bridge Park comprising 18 kilometres of wound aluminium tubing. More about Antony Gormley installs "drawing in space" on Brooklyn pier
A draft order by Donald Trump to make all new federal buildings classical is the latest example of how traditional architecture is used to disguise racist agendas, says Phineas Harper. More about "Traditional architecture has frequently been leveraged to support violent political agendas"
The American Institute of Architects has called on members to sign an open letter to the Trump Administration after a plan to introduce an order that all federal buildings should be built in the "classical architectural style" was discovered. More about AIA opposes President Trump's draft rules for Making Federal Buildings Beautiful Again