The latest edition of our weekly Dezeen Agenda newsletter features Foster + Partners' designs for a high-speed rail line in California. Subscribe to Dezeen Agenda now. More about Dezeen Agenda features Foster + Partners' designs for America's first high-speed rail line
BIG, Gehry Partners and Perkins&Will are among the five studios that have been selected as finalists in a contest to design the future National Museum of the US Navy. More about BIG and Frank Gehry among studios with "singular visions" for US Navy Museum
Brooklyn-based studio Worrell Yeung has updated a historic property in New York with a series of gabled buildings clad in various timber finishes and details. More about Worrell Yeung renovates New York farm with collection of "cousin" wood-clad buildings
Brooklyn-based Ringo Studio designed a store for kitchenware brand Our Place that features colourful tile displays and expressive drapery that hangs from the ceiling. More about Ringo Studio completes colourful cookware store for Our Place in Los Angeles
Architecture studio Sheft Farrace has renovated a loft apartment in Los Angeles' iconic Eastern Columbia building, subtly incorporating colours from the art deco exterior into the minimalist interiors. More about Sheft Farrace renovates loft in Los Angeles' art deco Eastern Columbia building
Aron Himmelfarb, founder of design studio Auver, has created a tasting room with a glulam structure wrapped in Corten steel, which adjoins a craft brewery in Hudson Valley, New York. More about Aron Himmelfarb extends Hudson Valley brewery with Corten-steel tasting room
Shanghai-based architect Rossana Hu has been named as a tenured faculty member and chair of the Department of Architecture at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. More about University of Pennsylvania names Rossana Hu architecture department chair
North Arrow Studio has completed a compact, corrugated metal accessory dwelling unit in East Austin's Chestnut neighbourhood featuring a custom, circular pivot window that is reminiscent of the round opening in a birdhouse. More about North Arrow Studio creates metal ADU in Austin to resemble a birdhouse
UK architecture studio Foster + Partners and engineering firm Arup have released designs for a series of stations in California that will serve its high-speed rail line. More about Foster + Partners and Arup design stations for "America's first high-speed rail segment"
Architecture studio Worrell Yeung has renovated a historic cast-iron building in Soho for an arts organisation called Canal Projects, which hosts exhibitions "in an unmistakably New York City space". More about Worrell Yeung renovates cast-iron New York building for arts organisation
Architecture studio BoND has designed the New York headquarters for Brazilian fashion brand PatBo, which features pink scaffolding and rugs based on drawings by Roberto Burle Marx. More about BoND uses pink scaffolding at New York "embassy" for fashion brand PatBo
New York studio Ennead Architects has renovated the Cathedral Church of St John the Divine in Manhattan by adding a batten-seam copper dome that "could last another 100 years". More about Ennead Architects places copper dome on New York cathedral in time for Easter
Canadian design studio Yabu Pushelberg has created the Moxy and AC Hotel in Downtown Los Angeles to encapsulate a variety of references to the surrounding city. More about Yabu Pushelberg references multi-faceted LA culture in conjoined hotels
American agency Siegel+Gale has updated the logo and branding of the United States Army for the first time in more than 20 years. More about Siegel+Gale creates "authentic" branding for US Army
Promotion: glass fibre-reinforced concrete panels by Austrian cladding brand Rieder animate the facade of the 277 Fifth Avenue skyscraper in Manhattan, New York City. More about Rieder concrete panels adorn Fifth Avenue skyscraper by Rafael Viñoly
Design studio Pentagram has created branding that references the injustice of America's war on drugs for Ben's Best Blnz cannabis company, which was launched by Ben & Jerry's co-founder Ben Cohen. More about Pentagram designs cannabis branding to advocate for "communities deeply harmed by the war on drugs"
Coalition building, advocacy and technological solutions must be applied to ensure forced and under-paid labour is not used in creating materials for architecture and design projects said speakers at the second Design For Freedom summit in Connecticut. More about "We can no longer accept the slavery discount" says Design For Freedom founder Sharon Prince
The final case study in our Timber Revolution series is Ascent in Milwaukee, Wisconsin by Korb + Associates Architects, which has been certified as the world's tallest mass-timber building. More about World's tallest timber tower replaced by forest growth "in less than 25 minutes"
Local studio Best Practice Architecture has used punchy colours, glass bricks and dichroic glass inside an optometry store in Seattle's Leschi neighbourhood. More about Glass blocks divide Eye Eye optical store by Best Practice Architecture
US architect Morris Adjmi took cues from tenements that once housed Italian immigrants to create a new mixed-use building with a decorative brickwork facade. More about Morris Adjmi uses domed brick on facade to evoke historic New York