Brooklyn designer Michael Yarinsky has renovated a home on Long Island's eastern-most tip with crisp white interiors, several lights by Ladies & Gentleman and ethereal Calico wallpaper. More about Michael Yarinsky enlivens Long Island house with the help of Brooklyn design studios
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is to investigate Joichi Ito, the director of the school's Media Lab, after it was revealed he accepted donations from American businessman and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. More about MIT Media Lab faces investigation following revelations of ties to Jeffrey Epstein
Mexican architect Frida Escobedo has designed pink plinths and screens to showcase the work of Memphis group founder Ettore Sottsass in this retrospective exhibition at Miami's Institute of Contemporary Art. More about Frida Escobedo designs Ettore Sottsass exhibition at ICA Miami
A screwdriver, drawer knobs and a pipe are among the objects that Berkeley studio Envelope A+D has used as beer taps in this industrial-style restaurant in San Francisco. More about Huge salvaged trees form benches in San Francisco restaurant Radhaus by Envelope A+D
Researchers have developed an algorithm to match refugees arriving in the US with the city where they are most likely to find employment and a good quality of life. More about Annie MOORE algorithm matches refugees to best-suited US cities
Helsinki firm JKMM Architects is building a sauna in the depths of the Nevada desert so that visitors of this year's Burning Man can cleanse and relax. More about JKMM Architects to heat up Burning Man revellers with Finnish sauna
Major high-rise developments are razing the architectural past of Los Angeles at a rapid rate, says the production designer behind the 1960s sets of Quentin Tarantino's movie, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. More about Buildings in LA are torn down and rebuilt as fast as movie sets, says Tarantino's production designer
US firm William Rawn Associates has created a series of buildings for a performing arts campus in western Massachusetts, where retractable glass walls allow music to spill outdoors. More about William Rawn designs cedar-clad pavilions for Tanglewood campus in the Berkshires
Jagged tunnels edged with red trim, scooped walls and wave-like canopies are among the defining features of these vacant concrete skateparks in California, photographed by artist Amir Zaki. More about California's "elaborately designed" concrete skateparks captured by Amir Zaki
Stephen Kenn Studio has transformed an apartment within a century-old factory building into an Airbnb-style rental, where guests can try out furniture designed by the Los Angeles firm and its partner brands. More about Stephen Kenn Loft in downtown Los Angeles doubles as "micro hotel" and showroom
Charleston interiors firm Basic Projects has used design touches like rattan and textured green plaster to add "a warm, Southern element" to the Savannah outpost of New York eatery The Fat Radish. More about Basic Projects designs The Fat Radish Savannah eatery inside former pharmacy
Los Angeles studio Dan Brunn Architecture has designed this Las Vegas boutique with clothes hanging on blackened-steel frames and shoes displayed on glass shelves that light up. More about Delicate glass shelves illuminate Las Vegas boutique by Dan Brunn Architecture
Brooklyn architecture studio PRO has overhauled a townhouse in Williamsburg, adding a slanted glass volume on its top level to double the home's living space. More about Big slanted window tops renovated Brooklyn townhouse by PRO
Large triangular windows bring daylight into this dome house in western Massachusetts, which has received an extensive makeover by local firm Jess Cooney Interiors. More about Geodesic dome cabin in New England gets major overhaul by Jess Cooney
Researchers at Purdue University have designed a wearable device that can detect an opioid overdose and trigger the release of an antidote. More about Wearable Opioid Antidote Device automatically reverses overdoses
New York interior designer Magdalena Keck has outfitted a holiday home in a Catskill Mountains development to create a "harmony" between Japanese minimalism, mid-century design and American crafts. More about Magdalena Keck fuses Japanese and Danish design in Upstate New York home
Quebec City architecture studio Atelier Pierre Thibault has added a slatted wooden terrace to the rear of a house in Ottawa, as part of its transformation into two apartments. More about Atelier Pierre Thibault turns Ottawa residence into minimal apartments
Sparano + Mooney Architecture has created a distinctive chapel in the American West that features copper siding, wooden walls and a large skylight that ushers in natural light. More about Sparano + Mooney creates sculptural Catholic chapel for Utah mining town
Burning Man co-founder Will Roger has spent the last 14 years capturing the festival in aerial photographs. As a book of his images is released, he spoke to Dezeen about how they created a pop-up city in the desert. More about Black Rock City is designed to "sprout out of nothing", says Burning Man co-founder Will Roger
The outrage over New York's Hudson Yards is not really about ugly glass towers or bad urbanism – although it features both – but an unspoken disquiet that foreign ideas have overtaken a chunk of Manhattan, argues Aaron Betsky. More about "What bothers many people is the sense of an alien culture"