Dezeen promotion: a symposium covering the most important architecture and design projects from the past 12 months will take place 9 December 2017 at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art, with speakers including architects Wang Shu and David Adjaye. More about A Year of Architecture in a Day talks return to The Met in New York
Architect Michael Viviano has worked with his mum and dad to create them this concrete and timber house with a gable roof in Houston, Texas. More about Michael Viviano designs gabled house for his parents in Houston
Albert C Ledner, an apprentice to Frank Lloyd Wright who helped proliferate modern architecture across the US, has died in New Hampshire aged 93. More about American modernist architect Albert C Ledner dies aged 93
British architecture firm McLean Quinlan has constructed a stone house in Jackson, Wyoming, modelled on a nearby 19th-century log cabin. More about Historic homestead informs McLean Quinlan's stone house in Wyoming
New York-based Narofsky Architecture has built this house on a hurricane-damaged site in Long Island, with wooden cladding and furniture made from trees knocked down during the storm. More about Long Island house for a tailor is built using trees felled in hurricane
Toronto designer Paolo Ferrari has crafted a series of furniture pieces, including a velvet sofa with large rolled cushions and a perforated pale wood cabinet, all made in Canada. More about Paolo Ferrari uses rolled velvet cushions and bleached wood for Editions furniture collection
Oregon-based architect Erin Moore has completed a tropical getaway in Hawaii that consists of two pavilions sited on either edge of a 300-year-old solidified lava formation. More about Hawaiian cabins by Erin Moore are designed for life outdoors
A show home in the One Thousand Museum tower designed by the late architect Zaha Hadid has been fitted out by Brazilian furniture brand Artefacto. More about First apartment in Zaha Hadid's Miami skyscraper revealed
Elon Musk's company Tesla has revealed its eagerly anticipated heavy goods vehicle and an unexpected sports car, both of which run on electric power. More about Tesla expands electric-vehicle portfolio with first truck and an updated roadster
Dutch architecture firm Mecanoo has unveiled its masterplan to overhaul the New York Public Library's main beaux-arts building on Fifth Avenue. More about Mecanoo reveals renovation plans for New York Public Library
The creators of adult game Cards Against Humanity have purchased a vacant plot along America's southern border, in the hopes of preventing the controversial wall the country's president Donald Trump is planning to build. More about Cards Against Humanity buys land on US-Mexico border to fight Trump's wall
Long, narrow shotgun homes influenced the design of this backyard structure in Boulder by Studio B, which features a concrete base and an upper level wrapped in grey metal and glass. More about Studio B creates skinny backyard dwelling for landscape architect in Colorado
Houston has launched a 20-year plan to overhaul its Downtown business district, after the Texas city's urban design was heavily criticised following catastrophic flooding caused by Hurricane Harvey. More about Masterplan unveiled for Downtown Houston in wake of Hurricane Harvey
Portland-based firm William Kaven Architecture has put forward a scheme to redevelop the soon-to-be demolished US postal building in the Oregon city, including a pair of towers built alongside a high-speed rail system. More about William Kaven proposes Portland's tallest skyscrapers at US Postal Office site
New York architect Peter Zuspan explains how his studio Bureau V's colourful additions to the MINI Living Urban Cabin in New York reflect the city's large immigrant population in our latest Dezeen x MINI Living video. More about Bureau V's MINI Living Urban Cabin aims to "start a conversation about immigration"
Designers from Mexico and Colombia have collaborated on a set of objects, created to facilitate coffee-drinking customs from the two countries. More about Coffee-drinking customs influence Samaná furniture and homeware range
British architect David Adjaye's plans to create a "micro village" of red cultural buildings in Florida's Winter Park have been granted planning permission. More about David Adjaye's red library and events complex in Florida wins approval
Serbian artist Marina Abramovic has abandoned plans for OMA to turn a former theatre in Upstate New York into an arts institute in her name, after failing to raise enough funding. More about Marina Abramovic cancels OMA's theatre conversion in Upstate New York
New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art will draw connections between religious art and contemporary couture for its next major fashion exhibition, to be designed by architecture firm Diller Scofidio + Renfro. More about Costume Institute's Spring 2018 exhibition to explore fashion and Catholicism
CO Architects and Ayers Saint Gross have completed a copper-clad laboratory complex in downtown Phoenix that evokes jagged and striated rock formations found in the American Southwest. More about Sculptural Arizona research building takes cues from desert topography