US architecture firm SO-IL has continued its exploration of material skins that filter the air with a set of costumes for a musical performance during the Chicago Architecture Biennial, which opens to the public today. More about SO-IL and Ana Prvački create air-filtering costumes for Chicago Biennial musical performance
Barack Obama has urged top architecture studios and tech firms like Amazon, Google and Microsoft to take on paid apprentices from Chicago's South Side at a public consultation event for the Obama Presidential Library. More about Obama calls on architecture and tech firms to support Chicago presidential library with apprenticeship schemes
A row of intricately detailed architectural models take centre stage at this pop-up exhibition celebrating the beauty of engineering by Skidmore Owings & Merrill, which coincides with the Chicago Architecture Biennial. More about SOM exhibits architecture models with stripped-away skins to reveal engineering beneath
Fifteen alternative visions for the famous 1920s Tribune Tower competition are presented as giant models at the Chicago Architecture Biennial. More about Architects reimagine Chicago's Tribune Tower with abstract skyscraper models
Only a month after the Garden Bridge was scrapped, Thomas Heatherwick's plans for a park on New York's Hudson River have been abandoned – and the designer has described the decision as "really, really sad". More about Thomas Heatherwick saddened after plans for New York "treasure island" are scrapped
Panoramic views of Seattle's harbour are afforded from the overhanging rear of this house, completed by American firm Robert Hutchison Architecture. More about Robert Hutchison's Cantilever House projects towards Seattle harbour
Brooklyn-based Office of Architecture has completely gutted and expanded a local row house for an architect, jewellery designer and their two children. More about Office of Architecture includes rooftop bedroom suite in Brooklyn row house overhaul
New York studio DFA has envisioned a prefabricated timber tower for New York's Central Park that would both filter a contaminated reservoir and provide views over the city. More about DFA proposes tallest timber observation tower to clean Central Park reservoir
Tennessee studio Archimania paired modern wooden elements with "gritty concrete and textured brick" at this higher-education facility, which is housed within a former industrial building that sat abandoned for years. More about Archimania transforms part of historic Memphis warehouse into teacher training centre
Apple CEO Tim Cook has officially opened the auditorium and events venue at the company's Foster + Partners-designed campus, where today's Apple Event took place. More about Apple Park's Steve Jobs Theater opens to host 2017 keynote
White walls and naturally lit rooms define this family house in the Seattle area, which was revamped by American studio SkB Architects. More about SkB Architects imbues Washington residence with art gallery aesthetic
Artist JR has erected a huge billboard-style image of a child peering over the border fence dividing the US and Mexico, in response to American president Donald Trump's proposed repeal of the DACA programme that protects children of undocumented immigrants. More about Artist responds to Dreamers repeal with giant US-Mexico border installation
Architects and designers were out in force at this year's Burning Man festival, and are posting photo diaries of the event now that they've returned from the Nevada desert. More about Bjarke Ingels, Yves Behar and more share Burning Man 2017 memories
American firm Flansburgh Architects has created a studio building for a performing arts campus in rural Massachusetts that is wrapped in warm-coloured wood and bands of glass. More about Flansburgh Architects takes cues from wooden barns for dance studio in the Berkshires
American firm Interface Studio Architects has built an all-white townhouse in a gentrifying part of Philadelphia, with a plywood core running up its middle. More about Plywood staircase extends up through centre of Philadelphia townhouse by ISA
The Chicago Architecture Center will take over a space inside a riverfront building by modernist architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, which will be designed by US firm Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill and is set to open summer 2018. More about Chicago Architecture Foundation plans move to Mies van der Rohe-designed tower
This year's Chicago Architecture Biennial will ask architects to consider history in order to shape a direction for future architectural practice, say artistic directors Johnston Marklee. More about Second Chicago Architecture Biennial will "look back to look forward" say artistic directors
Construction photos, released along with new renderings, show that French architect Jean Nouvel's supertall skinny skyscraper in Manhattan has reached the 58th floor. More about Jean Nouvel's 53W53 "MoMA tower" progress shown in photographs
Miami residents in the shadow of heavyweight construction cranes have been told to evacuate, as the structures could be toppled by the high winds anticipated to arrive with Hurricane Irma. More about Construction sites and cranes pose threat to Miami residents in Hurricane Irma's path
The leaves of an artificial tree at this year's Burning Man festival illuminated with "light flocks" in response to visitors' movements, heart beats and brain activity. More about Tree of Ténéré responds to Burning Man attendees with light patterns