Children can crawl into the rear end of a wooden pig when visiting this playground installation by Spanish designer Jaime Hayón at the High Museum of Art in Atlanta. More about Jaime Hayón installs Tiovivo animal-shaped play equipment at Atlanta museum
Ramsey Jones Architects has completed a vacation home in Wisconsin that consists of a slender rectangular bar with a square opening that frames views of one of the USA's Great Lakes (+ slideshow). More about Ramsey Jones creates slim beach cottage on the shore of Lake Michigan
Milwaukee-based Johnsen Schmaling Architects has completed a family retreat in rural Wisconsin featuring blackened pine cladding, concrete floors and wide-span glass doors (+ slideshow). More about Johnsen Schmaling clads cabin in a Wisconsin forest with blackened pine
The City of Los Angeles has chosen a design by OMA and landscape architects Mia Lehrer + Associates to transform a site in the Downtown area into a public park (+ slideshow). More about OMA's team wins FAB Park competition for Downtown LA
New York's Museum of Modern Art has announced a major exhibition of work by famed American architect Frank Lloyd Wright to coincide with what would have been his 150th birthday. More about MoMA to stage major Frank Lloyd Wright exhibition in 2017
Business news: a lawsuit has uncovered details that suggest the 2014 merger between US furniture brand Herman Miller and retailer Design Within Reach may not have technically happened. More about Herman Miller's merger with Design Within Reach called into question
US firm NBBJ has created the largest office in North America for tech company Samsung, incorporating features intended to show how a "legacy brand can play on par with the most-nimble tech startups" (+ slideshow). More about Samsung's Silicon Valley office by NBBJ features nap pods and music listening rooms
A team of architects in Chicago has proposed a house made of 3D-printed plastic and carbon-fibre panels wrapped around glazed walls (+ slideshow). More about WATG wins competition to design freeform 3D-printed house
Global firm Gensler has proposed an alternative skyscraper concept for the waterfront site in Chicago where a spiralling, supertall condominium tower by Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava was slated to rise. More about Gensler unveils skyscraper design for site of Calatrava's ill-fated Chicago Spire
Graduate shows 2016: Rhode Island School of Design graduate Jacqueline Lung has bent, welded and sanded strips of stainless steel to form frames for a pair of sunglasses. More about Jacqueline Lung's steel Archytas sunglasses feature screw-fixed lenses
New York 2016: in the wake of last month's New York design week, Dezeen's US editor Dan Howarth highlights five designers and studios that are set to become an important part of the city's design scene (+ slideshow). More about Five New York designers and studios to watch
UK studio Foster + Partners has unveiled the design for its first project in Brooklyn: a development of offices and creative workspaces on the Red Hook waterfront. More about Foster + Partners' first Brooklyn project is a waterfront office development
The first completed tower in the massive Hudson Yards development in New York has opened its doors, giving fashion brand Coach a new global headquarters (+ slideshow). More about KPF's 10 Hudson Yards skyscraper in New York welcomes first tenant Coach
Texas firm Matt Fajkus Architecture has completed a family home in Austin that features rooms with sliding glass walls, enabling the spaces to be fully opened to the outdoors (+ slideshow). More about Matt Fajkus completes urban Austin home with retractable glass walls
The Jenga-like form of Swiss firm Herzog & de Meuron's residential skyscraper in Tribeca, New York, has been captured by Instagram users ahead of its imminent completion. More about Herzog & de Meuron's 56 Leonard "Jenga tower" nears completion in New York
New York's Skyscraper Museum has released an online tool that tracks the growing number of skinny skscrapers in the city. More about Skyscraper Museum chronicles explosion of "super-slender" towers in New York
Los Angeles firm Yazdani Studio has completed a curving glass facility for cancer patients in southern California, featuring radiation treatment rooms that overlook Zen gardens (+ slideshow). More about Cancer treatment centre in California designed by Yazdani Studio to feel like a spa
New York 2016: Moscow architecture firm Crosby Studios' debut furniture collection includes sculptural chairs with bent metal supports designed to recall city buildings (+ slideshow). More about Crosby Studios designs furniture collection with architectural arches
Prehistoric tools, sci-fi memorabilia and a chandelier designed to look like the International Space Station feature in a New York exhibition that explores man's progress through designed objects (+ slideshow). More about Progressland exhibition presents objects of exploration at New York's Chamber gallery
San Francisco studio Turnbull Griffin Haesloop Architects took cues from traditional barns to create this contemporary dwelling in a northern California farming valley (+ slideshow). More about Turnbull Griffin Haesloop creates white barn-like house on a California ranch