The Eisenhower family has withdrawn its rejections to the Frank Gehry-designed memorial, proposed for Washington DC to honour the 34th president of the United States (+ slideshow). More
Work has completed on the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture by British architect David Adjaye, which is poised to open next month (+ slideshow). More
The final touches are being added to David Adjaye's museum of African American history, a project that "felt like a bloodbath at times" according to the British architect. More
New York firm Hou de Sousa has created an interactive installation in a Washington DC subway station, using over half a million plastic spheres glued together to form building blocks (+ slideshow). More
The hotel in Washington DC made famous by the Watergate scandal has reopened with interiors by London studio Ron Arad Architects (+ slideshow). More
US studio James Corner Field Operations has created an installation for the National Building Museum in Washington DC that evokes a glacial landscape, with giant shard-like forms that jut upward and downward (+ slideshow). More
Nearly 1,400 people have signed a petition in opposition to Bjarke Ingels Group's proposal to demolish a portion of the Smithsonian Institution campus in Washington DC. More
BIG has now released a full set of images of its design for the new Washington Redskins American football stadium, revealing more activities that the venue could facilitate (+ slideshow). More
Bjarke Ingels has unveiled his firm's new stadium design for American football team the Washington Redskins, set to feature a moat offering an assortment of sporting activities. More
Selldorf Architects has been selected to design a major mixed-use project in Washington DC on the site of the Elizabeth Taylor Medical Center, an HIV treatment centre named after the late actress. More
The next big US project for Bjarke Ingels' firm could be an American football stadium for the Washington Redskins. More
American artist Jennifer Angus has used an intricate pattern of insects to decorate a vivid pink room at the Renwick Gallery in Washington DC, set to reopen next month following renovation work (+ slideshow). More
Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners has released new images of its design for a six-storey building that will house the International Spy Museum in Washington DC. More
Dutch architecture firm Mecanoo has revised its competition-winning design for the renovation of Mies van der Rohe's Martin Luther King Jr Memorial Library in Washington DC. More
Brooklyn studio Snarkitecture has transformed the grand hall of the National Building Museum in Washington DC into a "beach" featuring a sea of translucent balls and a shoreline dotted with lounge chairs and umbrellas (+ slideshow). More
Opinion: a reactionary government policy from 1899 has turned Washington DC into a city of low buildings, expensive floor space and rampant inequality. A few skyscrapers could change all that, says Matthew Yglesias, executive editor of Vox. More
The arches of the Great Hall inside Washington DC's National Building Museum currently host 60 models of conceptual and completed buildings, for BIG's first ever exhibition in North America (+ slideshow). More
News: Bjarke Ingels' firm has unveiled its plans for a "radical reinterpretation" of the Smithsonian Institution campus in Washington DC, creating new entrances and underground extensions (+ slideshow). More
News: Rem Koolhaas' firm OMA has teamed up with American landscape architecture studio Olin to create the winning design for the 11th Street Bridge Park – a raised garden spanning Washington DC's Anacostia River (+ slideshow). More
News: visitors to the National Building Museum in Washington DC can now get lost inside a concave wooden maze installed by Danish architecture firm BIG (+ slideshow). More