US-based architecture studio SOM has completed a restoration of the Lever House seventy years after the studio originally designed the historic New York City office building. More about SOM completes restoration of New York's historic Lever House
New York design studio Stickbulb has launched Treeline, a series of lighting created using wood sourced from trees that had been removed from New York City's "urban forest". More about Stickbulb creates light fixtures using wood from salvaged New York trees
Climate technology company Heirloom has opened the first commercial Direct Air Capture plant in the US, which will sequester atmospheric carbon for permanent storage using energy-efficient kilns. More about Heirloom opens first large-scale carbon capture plant in US
Local studio Michael Hsu Office of Architecture has completed a house clad in limestone bricks and hemlock siding overlooking a nature preserve in Austin. More about Michael Hsu Office of Architecture rounds the corners of limestone Austin residence
Climate change is making it harder to prioritise retrofitting buildings to withstand earthquakes, architect John Lesak tells Dezeen in this interview for our Designing for Disaster series. More about Wildfires diverting resources from earthquake-proofing buildings in California warns John Lesak
The 2023 Chicago Architecture Biennial has opened with installations focusing on monumentality, race and material innovations on show at sites throughout Chicago. More about Nine installations to see at the 2023 Chicago Architecture Biennial
PLY+ and MPR Arquitectos have transformed a building at a former Catholic college into the School at Marygrove Elementary, filling it with colours and shapes that help spark "experimentation and exploration" among children. More about PLY+ and MPR Arquitectos convert historic Detroit building into colourful school
Production designer Ruth De Jong has installed a house modelled on her set design for Jordan Peele's film Nope at the Chicago Architecture Biennial as part of a series of installations exploring horror and architecture. More about Ruth De Jong draws upon Nope set design for Chicago Architecture Biennial
US architecture studio Schaum/Shieh has embedded a Virginia house with irregularly shaped volumes into the contours of a steep site. More about Schaum/Shieh "gently" conforms house to contours of steep Virginia site
Norman Teague Design Studios has erected a plywood structure as a full-scale model of the future monument to American abolitionists Frederick and Anna Douglass, for the Chicago Architecture Biennial. More about Norman Teague displays prototype of Douglass monument in Chicago
Local design studio Tian & Teague has created a series of furniture and homeware based on the everyday struggles of living in New York City, including a tufted rug made to resemble a run-over rat. More about Tian & Teague creates home decor informed by the "discomforts" of New York
US studio CookFox Architects has designed a museum dedicated to American musician Bruce Springsteen, which will be located in New Jersey. More about CookFox Architects designs mass-timber Bruce Springsteen museum
New York-based studios Ennead Architects and Rockwell Group have completed the renovation of an academic building for Johns Hopkins University in Washington, DC with "floating" classrooms at its core. More about Ennead Architects and Rockwell Group create "floating" classrooms for Johns Hopkins University
Sweden-born architect Fredrik Nilsson has completed a wood-clad residence for his family that incorporates Scandinavian modernism and the "bohemian experimentalism of the LA Eastside". More about Fredrik Nilsson clads his Los Angeles house in oiled cedar
A wooden pavilion shaped by dehydration and banners made from found urban objects are on show at Chicago's James R Thompson Center for the Chicago Architecture Biennial. More about Chicago Architecture Biennial fills postmodern Thompson Center with installations
US architecture studio Dash Marshall has completed an adaptive reuse project, transforming a historic garage into a performing arts theatre in Detroit, Michigan. More about Dash Marshall converts historic Detroit garage into black box theatre
This sprawling white concrete house in California is laid out like a "village" of open and enclosed spaces, with architecture by Masastudio and interiors by Kelly Wearstler. More about Kelly Wearstler and Masastudio design California home as a "modern ruin"
Danish architecture practice 3XN has been selected to create a stepped retail building located along Baltimore's Inner Harbor informed by sailboats. More about 3XN to create stepped building for Baltimore's Inner Harbor
Embassies designed for the United States by Walter Gropius and Eero Saarinen feature in this roundup based on David B Peterson's book US Embassies of the Cold War: The Architecture of Democracy, Diplomacy and Defense. More about Ten Cold War US embassies that embody America's 20th-century "victorious exuberance"
Architecture studio Perkins&Will has placed a series of greenhouses on top of a concrete structure to create this agricultural research centre in California. More about Perkins&Will crowns Californian research centre with series of greenhouses