While commonly known as a tech hub, Silicon Valley is home to a number of impressive residential designs. US reporter Bridget Cogley picks out six stand-out homes in the area. More about Six striking houses in California's Silicon Valley
Hand-painted murals and crown-like brass chandeliers feature in the Veronika restaurant in New York, which local studio Roman and Williams designed to reference a variety of artistic styles. More about Roman and Williams creates "romantic" Veronika restaurant inside New York's Fotografiska museum
Architects including Junya Ishigami, Elizabeth Diller and Shohei Shigematsu spoke at the inaugural The World Around architecture forum in New York. Watch the full conference on Dezeen. More about Watch The World Around architecture conference in New York
David Adjaye has used pink-tinted concrete to form a "tough and gentle" store in Los Angeles for fashion retailer The Webster, which marks the British-Ghanaian architect's first project in California. More about David Adjaye curves pink concrete around Los Angeles store The Webster
Los Angeles studio Lawson-Fenning has outfitted an apartment in RM Schindler's 1930s residential building Manola Court with furniture influenced by California modernism. More about California modernists RM Schindler and Richard Neutra influence Maker's Collection furniture
New York studio General Assembly has reconfigured a 1970s apartment in the city's Upper East Side into a sun-light space with a home office. More about General Assembly upgrades apartment inside brutalist Manhattan tower
OMA New York, led by Shohei Shigematsu, has revealed its design for galleries inside the Denver Art Museum designed by famed Italian architect Gio Ponti. More about OMA unveils design galleries in Gio Ponti's Denver Art Museum
American firm Mack Scogin Merrill Elam Architects has refurbished a round, mid-century dwelling that rotates 360 degrees and has created a pool house that doubles as guest quarters. More about Mack Scogin Merrill Elam renovates circular Connecticut home that spins
Sneaker brand APL has opened its first store — a dramatically narrow, runway-like space in Los Angeles with an interior designed by architect Bernard Dubois. More about APL plays with proportions in "dramatic but serene" LA flagship store
Zaha Hadid's recently completed Miami skyscraper One Thousand Museum – one of the late architect's last buildings – is revealed in a short movie and photography. More about Zaha Hadid's One Thousand Museum in Miami features private aquatic center and helipad
The developer of New York's World Trade Center site has nixed BIG's Two World Trade Center design in favour of an earlier proposal by Foster + Partners, following back-and-forth over the two projects. More about BIG's Two World Trade Center scrapped as Foster + Partners' design is revived
American studio MW Works has created an "intentionally modest" dwelling in the Pacific Northwest that serves as a nature retreat for a multi-generational family. More about MW Works designs quiet dwelling for family farm in Washington
A new sleeping mezzanine, a bookcase with a rolling ladder and a sprinkler main painted bright red are among the features in this airy New York apartment that has been updated by local architect Julian King. More about Sculptural white wall hides staircase in renovated 19th-century Soho warehouse
FreelandBuck has installed a pavilion in a Palo Alto plaza comprising triangular panels imprinted with images of the public enjoying the same site on a day last year. More about FreelandBuck pavilion in Palo Alto documents life "over the course of one day"
Architects Tyler Thomas and Gabbi Sun of Venn Studio have paired "masculine-feminine, hard-soft" details inside this cosmetics store for a unisex beauty brand in Los Angeles. More about Creamy whites and crushed gravel decorate Los Angeles' Noto Botanics store
Canadian studio Lateral Office has installed 12 oversized seesaws that light up and make sounds on the streets of New York City's Garment District. More about Lateral Office lights up New York City Garment District with "immersive urban instrument"
US firm Stonehill Taylor has turned a restored 1950s plane into a cocktail bar for the TWA Hotel at New York's JFK airport. More about Stonehill Taylor designs retro Connie bar inside a plane at JFK's TWA Hotel
New York studio Parts and Labor Design has taken cues from Washington DC's maritime past to create the interiors of a hotel in the city's Navy Yard neighbourhood. More about Thompson Washington DC hotel subtly draws on city's nautical past
This exhibition of works by architects and artists installed at Rudolph Schindler's house in West Hollywood, California takes the fraught relationship between the architect and his wife as its theme. More about Soft Schindler installation of works by architects and artists contrasts modernist The Schindler House
A chair made from loaves of bread and a toilet-cum-sink are among the objects on display in an exhibition at Friedman Benda that aims to find a "new form of pleasure" in furniture. More about Bright yellow Friedman Benda exhibition explores comfort in furniture