Swiss studio Herzog & de Meuron has utilised the existing concrete foundation of an older structure for the Student Center & Dining Commons at Amherst College, adding mass-timber levels on top. More about Herzog & de Meuron reuses foundations for mass-timber Massachusetts school building
New York architecture studio Diller Scofidio + Renfro has spliced an 1894 brick warehouse building with several glazed volumes to create a home for MIT's School of Architecture and Planning. More about Diller Scofidio + Renfro renovates Boston storage warehouse for MIT architecture school
Architectural designer Isabel Strauss has designed a public bathroom for the grounds of German-American architect Walter Gropius's self-designed home in Massachusetts, USA, chosen from hundreds of submissions. More about Isabel Strauss wins competition for public bathroom at Gropius House
US studio Payette has completed a pro-bono project called Land's Sake Farmstand in Massachusetts, USA, designed as a "functional and poetic" timber pavilion that emulates early agrarian buildings. More about Payette creates timber farm stand "rooted in the rhythms of New England"
Researchers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology have unveiled the Heirloom House project, a series of nine structural-concrete components that can be manually rearranged and that are intended to last for 1,000 years. More about MIT researchers design Heirloom House concrete components to last "1,000 years"
A team of local builders and designers oriented 49 prefabricated cedar cabins around a lake in Massachusetts, USA, and renovated a historic building to serve as the restaurant. More about Prospect Berkshires "landscape hotel" features cedar-clad cabins in Massachusetts
An exposed mass-timber structure designed to resemble a tree gives a "distinct architectural identity" to this Harvard University student centre, designed by American architecture firm Studio Gang. More about Studio Gang exposes mass-timber structure of Rubenstein Treehouse at Harvard
US architecture studio Pelli Clarke & Partners has completed a skyscraper clad in glass on top of a restored 1899 train station in Boston, USA, the "busiest transit hub in New England". More about Pelli Clarke & Partners "reshapes the skyline" with Boston South Station skyscraper
Following a fire at dance centre Jacob's Pillow in 2020, Dutch architecture studio Mecanoo has completed the Doris Duke Theatre on the Massachusetts, USA campus, with a design guided by Indigenous principles. More about Mecanoo completes "magic wooden box" theatre at Jacob's Pillow in Massachusetts
Sweden-based group Architectural Uprising has released an announcement naming Steven Holl Architect's Simmons Hall at MIT the winner of its International Aesthetic Atrocity Awards. More about Anti-modernist architecture group declares Simmons Hall "America's ugliest building"
A doughnut-shaped terrace and green roofs covered with sedum are among the standout features of a V-shaped research facility in Cambridge, Massachusetts, designed by local architecture studio Payette. More about Payette creates sculptural Ragon Institute on triangular site in Massachusetts
RIBA Royal Gold Medal-winning studio SANAA has placed a concert hall and rehearsal space into three cuboids for the Edward and Joyce Linde Music Building at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. More about SANAA assembles trio of red-brick cuboids for MIT music building
Boston architecture studio Studio 3.0 has added a wedge-shaped extension and a screened-in porch to an octagon-shaped house in Cape Cod originally built in the 1970s, keeping the addition distinct from the original core. More about Studio 3.0 adds dual extensions to 1970s Octagon house in Cape Cod
Dutch architecture firm Mecanoo has designed the Doris Duke Theater at Massachusetts dance venue Jacob's Pillow to replace the previous theatre lost to a fire in 2020. More about Mecanoo to create "world's most technologically advanced dance venue" in the Berkshires
American architecture studio SOM has completed the Schwarzman College of Computing, an eight-storey, glass-wrapped building designed to be a "collaborative nexus" on the Massachusetts Institute of Technology campus in Cambridge. More about SOM covers computing college at MIT in large glass shingles
New York studio Parts and Labor Design and Brad Guidi of Boston real estate company Blue Flag Capital have renovated the Beachside Hotel on Nantucket to reflect the local craft and design scene of the 1960s. More about Parts and Labor Design and Blue Flag Capital create "nostalgic" Nantucket hotel
Architecture studio Payette has completed an urban building at Northeastern University called EXP, which features a rooftop garden and facades wrapped in a "solar veil" made of metal strips. More about Payette wraps Boston academic building in ribbons of stainless steel
Madrid architecture studio Ecosistema Urbano has created a modular tower with inflatable awnings and stacks of native plants to mitigate the effects of climate change in urban areas. More about Ecosistema Urbano creates modular plant tower to "mitigate urban climate change"
As part of its ongoing Icons series, Airbnb has created a life-size rental version of a Polly Pocket compact toy, which includes mock-up versions of clothing and oversized furniture. More about Airbnb creates life-size Polly Pocket house in Massachusetts
Architecture studio SO-IL has unveiled designs for the Williams College Museum of Art in the Berkshires, which will be topped with a tent-like cross-laminated timber roof. More about SO-IL designs Massachusetts museum with undulating CLT roof