Tokujin Yoshioka has suspended 17,700 acrylic rods in the lobby of a skyscraper in Downtown Houston, creating a huge sculpture designed to resemble a cloud. More about Tokujin Yoshioka creates cloud-like sculpture from thousands of acrylic rods
Belgian artist Carsten Höller has created one of his massive slide towers at a shopping mall north of Miami, where visitors can race each other down its pair of tunnels. More about Carsten Höller's first giant slides in the US open in Miami
Foster + Partners has designed 15 loft-style apartments suited to displaying expansive art collections inside its luxury residential tower, which is nearing completion in Midtown Manhattan. More about Foster unveils homes for art collectors inside skinny New York skyscraper
American firm The Miller Hull Partnership has completed a firehouse in the Pacific Northwest with large bi-fold glass doors that enable a quick exit for emergency trucks. More about Miller Hull clads Washington fire station in red cedar and black metal
Design studio Basic Projects and architect Heather Wilson have revamped a South Carolina house, pairing white walls and concrete floors with colourful vintage decor. More about Tropical decor features inside renovated house in South Carolina
American firm In Situ Studio has completed a compact, L-shaped family dwelling that makes the most of a challenging suburban site. More about Black stairwell cuts across front of North Carolina home by In Situ Studio
Brightly coloured hand and foot holds form climbing routes across turquoise walls at this bouldering centre, set inside an industrial building in Minneapolis. More about Faceted structures and colourful holds form climbing walls in Minneapolis bouldering gym
A slender marble kitchen worktop, and built-in beige and white cabinets are intended to be hardly noticeable in this San Francisco apartment designed by Californian studio Garcia Tamjidi. More about Garcia Tamjidi aims for barely-there finishes in banker's San Francisco bolthole
The first of a series of waterfront buildings that New York firm SHoP Architects is creating at the former Domino Sugar Factory in Williamsburg has opened. More about SHoP completes first building at Brooklyn's Domino Sugar Factory site
The all-white panel of architects gathered by Woods Bagot to discuss Los Angeles' future urban development last week was misrepresentative of the city's diversity and needs, argues Janelle Zara. More about "To speak of entire communities without giving them a seat at the table reeks of arrogance"
New York architecture studio DFA has imagined a series of latticed apartment towers for Manhattan's Pier 40, which would be able to remain above water in the event of rising sea levels. More about DFA proposes "floating" affordable housing for dilapidated Manhattan pier
A pavilion with colourful geometric windows by late American artist Ellsworth Kelly has been built at the University of Texas in Austin. More about Rainbow windows pattern Ellsworth Kelly's minimal Austin pavilion
Architecture practice Gensler and footwear giant Reebok have revealed a concept to convert American petrol stations into fitness centres that generate energy. More about Gensler and Reebok reimagine US gas stations as gyms
New York studio GRT Architects has uncovered and repaired the decorative facade of a tower in the city's Garment District, during the renovation of its entrance inside and out. More about GRT Architects restores facade and overhauls lobby of New York's Fashion Tower
New Orleans firm Trahan Architects has completed a visitor centre for an 18th-century plantation in Louisiana, using translucent glazing to blur views of occupants from the outside "like an impressionist painting". More about Staggered glass walls front visitor centre at Louisiana plantation house
Architecture studio Wernerfield has raised this dwelling in Texas several metres off the ground, to provide guests with a sensation of "floating in the forest". More about Wernerfield elevates Treebox guest house on wooded site in Texas
Canadian studio Michael Green Architecture has unveiled plans for a massive timber office complex on the waterfront of Newark, New Jersey, which is expected to be the largest of its kind in the USA. More about USA's largest timber office building proposed for New Jersey
A light-toned coffee and pastry shop in Manhattan's NoMad district provides a front for a secret subterranean bar behind, both with interiors by Carpenter + Mason. More about New York's Patent acts as cafe by day and speakeasy by night
New exterior cladding, a moss garden and a multipurpose room are among the updates to a 1950s residence in the American Midwest revamped by design studio Haus. More about Haus overhauls midcentury modern home in the Indiana woods
Kohn Pedersen Fox's 68-storey skyscraper in Downtown Brooklyn will include the "highest residential infinity pool in the western hemisphere" on its roof. More about KPF's Brooklyn skyscraper to feature record-breaking rooftop pool