Verdant foliage, handmade tiles and wooden decor give rise to a Colombian-infused atmosphere in this urban cafe, created by LOT Office for Architecture for boutique coffee roaster Devoción. More about LOT creates tropical garden within Brooklyn coffee house Devoción
A dated hillside residence in Los Angeles has been overhauled with light-filled interiors and a new stairwell by local firm Ras-A Studio. More about Ras-A Studio overhauls mid-century House Under a Bridge in LA
New York studio Fogarty Finger has converted a defunct industrial building in New Jersey into a single-family home, adding a volume on the roof and converting the basement into liveable space. More about Fogarty Finger creates Paulus Hook Residence in New Jersey propeller factory
New York City's annual design festival officially kicks off this weekend, and we've put together a list of highlights to visit over the next two weeks. It includes an installation of mirrored columns, a pop-up restaurant that will produce as little waste as possible, and an exhibition of furniture by only female designers. More about Installations and exhibitions to check out during NYCxDesign 2018
New Zealand design brand Resident has created up a pop-up store in Manhattan to showcase its hanging hooped lights alongside other new furnishings. More about Resident debuts home furnishings at temporary New York City showroom
This year's graduates from the Pratt Institute department of fashion presented collections that included a structured wicker skirt and oversized soft rabbits in New York last week. More about The best collections from Pratt Institute's 2018 graduate fashion show
California studio Edmonds + Lee has refurbished and expanded a gabled-roof dwelling in San Francisco, transforming rooms into light-filled spaces with wood flooring and minimalist decor. More about Edmonds + Lee overhauls slender Victorian home in San Francisco
Designers from Norway and New York have worked together to create a collection of playful items, which will be shown during this month's NYCxDesign festival. More about Scandi and US designers team up for Sight Unseen's Norway x New York exhibition
Chilean collective GT2P has used a computer to delicately cut wavy forms based on the Andes mountains into the top of a wooden coffee table, currently on show at New York gallery Friedman Benda. More about GT2P's Manufactured Landscapes exhibition features rippled coffee table
Co-working company WeWork has announced Danish architect and BIG founder Bjarke Ingels will join the company in the role of chief architect. More about Bjarke Ingels joins WeWork as chief architect
Architecture firm Skidmore, Owings & Merrill has paired blackened steel with warm-toned wood at a new headquarters for hat maker Optimo, created inside a historic firehouse in Chicago. More about SOM converts century-old Chicago firehouse into Optimo hat factory
Ties between fashion and the Catholic church are examined in an exhibition split across two venues of New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art. More about The Met's Heavenly Bodies exhibition praises fashion influenced by Catholicism
Rapper Kanye West has revealed plans to extend his fashion label Yeezy with an architecture division "to make the world better". More about Kanye West to launch architecture arm of Yeezy fashion label
A glazed box containing a study cantilevers from the contemporary rural Jackson Residence by architecture firm Bohlin Cywinski Jackson, which overlooks a river valley in the American West. More about Glass study extends from hilltop home in Wyoming by Bohlin Cywinski Jackson
A range of influences, from 1970s Italian design to art deco details, informed designer Camilla Deterre's interiors for this bar and lounge in Tribeca. More about Camilla Deterre blends 20th-century design styles at Primo's bar in Tribeca
US studio Cutler Anderson Architects has wrapped this house in Connecticut around a large pond so its residents can watch birds, fish and insects at play. More about Connecticut Residence by Cutler Anderson straddles a woodland pond
Universal Design Studio has redesigned the venue for this week's Frieze art fair on New York's Randall's Island, comprising five giant tents oriented to bathe the interior with indirect light. More about Universal Design Studio erects "temporary town for art" for Frieze New York
Online design retailer Radnor has furnished a residence in David Chipperfield Architects' residential tower under construction on New York's Bryant Park. More about Radnor curates model apartment at Chipperfield's The Bryant in New York
Miami-based Oppenheim Architecture and Design has built offices in the city for an Italian construction company, with rectangular concrete volumes offset from one other and covered balconies extending from the units. More about Oppenheim Architecture completes concrete GLF Headquarters along Miami riverwalk
Images of a mixed-use development for Miami by Uruguayan architect Rafael Viñoly show a pair of perpendicular towers connected at the top by a wedge-shaped sky bridge. More about Rafael Viñoly plans angled residential towers for One River Point in Downtown Miami