Designers Shashwath Santosh and Nithin Eluvathingal have created a small remote device called a "knocker" that attaches to a tree and knocks on wood from afar to explore well-known superstitions. More about Knocker device remotely "knocks on wood" using smartphone app
Local architecture studio INC has designed each guest room at this hotel overlooking New York's Rockefeller Plaza to emulate "a stateroom on an ocean liner". More about Luxury ocean liners inform New York's Kimpton Era hotel by INC
US studio Desai Chia Architecture has referenced the form of "native oak leaves" in shaping the metal roof on Chatham Residence, a rural house in New York designed for retirement. More about Desai Chia shapes New York house to "cast shadows that mimic nature"
Local designer Rafael Prieto has created a collection of furniture using cast-offs of a Tribeca facade for his latest exhibition at Emma Scully Gallery in New York City. More about Rafael Prieto creates furniture from fragments of New York buildings
Florida-based Nothing has created hot and cold paper takeaway cups with built-in lids that are designed to be compostable. More about Nothing wants to revolutionise the takeaway paper cup
Promotion: Danish eyewear brand Lindberg has presented a site-specific installation for the Armory Show in New York City, created with Italian artist Fabrizio Corneli. More about Fabrizio Corneli creates dramatic installation for glasses brand Lindberg
A structure made of bio-based thermoplastic and recycled broom heads is among the works featured in a mid-career retrospective of design studio Rael San Fratello at San Francisco's Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. More about San Francisco exhibition explores the "radical imagination" of Rael San Fratello
New York's Museum of Modern Art has exhibited Full Disclosure: The Edge of Information Design, curated by Paola Antonelli, which features information design from classic infographics to a project with missing memories created using AI. More about Synthetic memories feature in MoMA information design exhibition
North American football league Major League Soccer has moved its New York headquarters to the Penn 2 skyscraper and commissioned US studio TPG Architecture to have it mirror the dynamics of a soccer pitch. More about TPG Architecture creates an "office as stadium" for Major League Soccer headquarters
With AI driving demand, vast data centres are increasingly in the news as people question the impact on local environments. Can architects help to make these buildings look and function better? More about Can data centres ever be well-designed?
US studio Coughlin Scheel Architects has completed the cedar-clad Surf Road House, lifting it 10 feet above the ground because of environmental concerns. More about Coughlin Scheel lifts Fire Island house high above the beach
Architecture studio GRT Architects has modernised and updated New York architecture gallery Storefront for Art and Architecture, installing custom, removable shelving units and placing a doorknob on its facade for the first time. More about GRT Architects adds modular shelving in Storefront for Art and Architecture revamp
Here's a closer look inside the newly opened Lucas Museum of Narrative Art, where design studio Rockwell Group has outfitted a restaurant and bar that "responds to the museum's distinctive biomorphic architecture". More about Rockwell Group eschews 90-degree angles for Skywalker Grill at Lucas Museum
Architect Gjergji Shkurti has collaborated with concept shop Million Goods for its second Brooklyn location, using marble, custom millwork and curated furniture to create a transition from hospitality to retail. More about Gjergji Shkurti integrates bar, retail and hi-fi at Million Goods in Brooklyn
Brooklyn creative studio MSCHF has created two twisted and bent versions of Lexus electric cars for New York City's fall art week, which the studio said is a play on the automotive industry's concept car prototypes. More about MSCHF twists Lexus electric cars into absurd shapes in New York
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
Washington DC nonprofit The National Trust for Historic Preservation, which sued the government last year over the White House ballroom extension, has announced a $10 million fundraising campaign for legal defence in support of US landmark preservation. More about National Trust for Historic Preservation creates defense fund in light of "urgent threats"
Alaska-based artist Nicholas Galanin has created a metal sculpture resembling a stretched animal hide in front of the St Louis Gateway Arch to challenge "narratives of westward expansion" for art festival Counterpublic. More about Nicholas Galanin "interrupts sightline" of Gateway Arch with animal-hide sculpture
Photographer Gurpreet Chawla has captured this year's architectural installations at the annual Burning Man festival in Nevada, from a broken Eiffel Tower to a chapel made from nylon panels. More about The quirky architecture of Burning Man 2026
Researchers at Parsons School of Design's Healthy Material Lab have released a study that raises concerns about the "many substances harmful to human health" in a typical prefabricated American home. More about Parsons researchers warn of plastic toxicity in American manufactured homes