USA
SOM creates a rounded library wrapped in aluminium fins for Chicago’s Chinatown
Patricia Urquiola’s Miami store design for Panerai references watch mechanisms
HCWD launches white-concrete version of portable LED Brick lamp
SHoP proposes New York’s tallest timber-framed building
Four finalists announced for revamp of Pershing Square in downtown LA
David Adjaye, Renzo Piano and Snøhetta among seven-strong shortlist for Obama Library
Commune converts 1960s Space Age-style bank into a hotel in North Carolina
Yves Béhar designs slanted Surf Shack for Design Miami
Thomas Heatherwick to redesign home of New York Philharmonic orchestra
Perkins Eastman proposes turning New York’s Broadway into one long park
Seattle running store by goCstudio has hanging racks that can be raised toward the ceiling
LA’s Petersen Automotive Museum reopens with KPF-designed metal-ribbon facade
Four designs aim to improve sidewalk sheds around New York construction sites
Lever Architecture proposes timber-framed tower for Portland
ODO unveils cotton jeans and T-shirts that clean themselves
SOM designs first net-zero energy school in New York City on Staten Island
SOM recasts old San Francisco movie house for new role as a nonprofit theatre
Gluckman Tang designs museums for art and model trains in western Massachusetts
Mark Foster Gage proposes elaborate gargoyle-covered skyscraper for New York
Oregon fire station by Hennebery Eddy features a burnt wood facade
Patricia Urquiola overhauls Cassina’s New York showroom
Sight Unseen’s LA exhibition showcases work from “focal point of the American design scene”
Mountaineer Prototype by James Capper walks on hydraulic legs
