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"
Dezeen promotion: in our latest competition, we've partnered with architecture forum The World Around to give away two tickets to its conference taking place for the first time in January 2020. More about Competition: win two tickets to The World Around's inaugural conference in New York
Frank Gehry has completed work on the first stage in the major renovation of Philadelphia's Museum of Art, over a decade after he was first enlisted to design the project. More about Frank Gehry restores entrance and vaulted corridor at Philadelphia Museum of Art
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"
Italian designer Luca Nichetto has created furnishings, including tables, sofas and benches, to be used in workspaces, residences and museum galleries. More about Luca Nichetto designs modular furniture to work in public spaces and the home
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
Interior designer Jessica Helgerson has overhauled a home in Portland, Oregon to include decorative ceilings, floral wallpaper and shades of green and grey that evoke its rainy, cool climate. More about Jessica Helgerson uses "moody, green, lush" palette for Portland home renovation
American studio Heliotrope Architects has created a holiday home for art gallery owners that is wrapped in dark metal, white stucco and large stretches of glass. More about Heliotrope tucks Collector's Retreat into lush wooded site in coastal Washington
Burning Man has acknowledged the carbon emissions it causes and called on attendees to consider alternatives to burning, as part of a plan to become carbon negative by 2030. More about Setting fire to artworks in the desert "creates atmospheric pollution" says Burning Man festival
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
Prefabricated housing company Koto has designed a cabin-like ADU, or Accessory Dwelling Unit, that can be delivered to sites in San Jose, California in two weeks. More about Koto and Abodu launch tiny prefab ADUs for San Francisco Bay Area
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
Artist and architect Lauren Henkin has created a series of sculptures to fill "unintended" installation spaces in the Contemporary Arts Center in Cincinnati, Ohio designed by late architect Zaha Hadid. More about Props exhibit fills stairwells and bathrooms of Zaha Hadid's Contemporary Arts Center in Cincinnati
Online design retailer Radnor has opened a new studio and launched an updated furniture collection inside The Old American Can Factory in Gowanus, Brooklyn. More about Radnor opens studio in old Brooklyn factory
Two terraces will be carved into the swooping, ceramic-clad facade of this public library that architecture firm Snøhetta has designed for Charlotte, North Carolina. More about Snøhetta unveils North Carolina library with scooped front
Gabled volumes wrapped in wood and glass form this residence in northern California, which US studio Field Architecture designed to ensure that no trees had to be removed from the site. More about Field Architecture designs Pinon Ranch to embrace pastoral setting in California
The Chicago Architecture Biennial has defended its sponsorship deals with petroleum giant BP and energy company Exelon, amid a growing backlash over arts sponsorship from companies that contribute to climate change. More about BP sponsorship "allows us to present an exhibition that is free" says Chicago Architecture Biennial
The Designs for Different Futures exhibition at the Philadelphia Museum of Art collates projects to tackle some of today's biggest issues – including an arched pavilion for harvesting crickets, clothes that grow and a font illegible to computers. More about Today's innovations could be "redundant in five years" says curator of Designs for Different Futures