This week on Dezeen, the long-awaited Obama Presidential Center, designed by US studio Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects, was unveiled in Chicago. More about This week the Obama Presidential Center was revealed
Architecture studio Snøhetta has moved its New York City headquarters to Dumbo, Brooklyn, converting an old cardboard production facility floor into an open-plan office. More about Snøhetta converts former Dumbo factory space into New York headquarters
US furniture company MillerKnoll has announced leadership changes, including the resignation of CEO Andi Owen and the appointment of Kim Colin and Sam Hecht of London studio Industrial Facility as Herman Miller creative directors. More about MillerKnoll CEO Andi Owen resigns and Herman Miller appoints new creative directors
A monumental granite-clad tower surrounded by artificial hills has been completed by US studio Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects to honour US president Barack Obama. More about Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects completes "intentionally sculptural" Obama Presidential Center
The completed Obama Presidential Center represents a concerning shift in the image ex-presidents want to convey, writes Anthony Paletta. More about "The Obama Presidential Center unquestionably breaks free of tired precedent"
Ahead of the opening of the Obama Presidential Center in Chicago next week, we take a look at 13 of the completed presidential libraries in the US. More about The architecture of 13 presidential libraries from Hoover to Bush
Brooklyn-based studio Out of Line has completed an attached accessory dwelling unit that extends a New Jersey suburban home by extending its colours and creating a gable form in the negative for the entryway. More about Out of Line adds playful ADU with "absent gable" to New Jersey house
Promotion: to commit to craft under contemporary constraints, makers have to embrace community and find unique audiences, according to a panel hosted at British design brand Toast at its West Village store during NYCxDesign. More about Finding community essential for craft say panellists at Toast talk in New York
Artist Theaster Gates and landscape designer Sara Zewde have designed a pavilion from recovered building materials that will be a community centre in a historic Black neighbourhood in Houston, Texas. More about Theaster Gates and Studio Zewde to create performance space for Houston's Freedmen's Town
Boston-based studio Safdie Architects has completed an expansion for the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville, Arkansas, with structures that both maintain and depart from the original style. More about Safdie Architects completes major Crystal Bridges Museum expansion in Arkansas
Brooklyn studio GRT Architects has completed a second location for maximalist restaurant Bad Roman, creating an "evolution" of the New York original in Beverly Hills. More about "Exuberant" tiled facade fronts Bad Roman Beverly Hills by GRT Architects
US architecture studios Gehry Partners, WHY Architecture and landscape studio Olin have been announced as the project leads for renovations to the visitor sequence at the Getty Center in California, USA. More about Gehry Partners, WHY Architecture and Olin to revamp Getty Center tram station in Los Angeles
Texas lighting company Lucifer Lighting has integrated ocean plastic into its Atomos downlighting, melting down millions of feet of fishing lines and nets into its injection moulding processes. More about Lucifer Lighting puts recycled ocean-plastic lights into mass production
From shows featuring dozens of nightlights to conceptual furniture and innovative student work, NYCxDesign 2026 was a dazzling mix. Dezeen US editor Ben Dreith and US reporter Ellen Eberhardt pick out objects that show the scope of the busy week. More about Eighteen weird, wonderful and well-made objects from NYCxDesign 2026
American space agency NASA has updated plans for a permanent moon base, with a multi-phased plan culminating in "semi-permanent habitation models". More about NASA says "living and working on the moon will become reality" after 2032
US architecture studio OPAL has created a farming research and education centre made with mass timber and modelled after the local barns on its site in Maine, weaving together "tradition and modern sensibility". More about OPAL "superinsulates" mass-timber farming education center in Maine
California studio EYRC Architects has expanded the Cocopah Museum in Arizona with a standalone building constructed from weathering steel and pigmented cast concrete. More about Weathering steel wraps Indigenous museum in Arizona by EYRC
US studio Trahan Architects has placed a round chapel with a brick facade and cross-laminated timber structure at a university in New Orleans, Louisiana. More about Trahan Architects integrates "sense of mystery" into circular university chapel in New Orleans
A monumental triumphal arch with a neoclassical structure devised by Atlanta-based studio Harrison Design has been approved for Washington DC, USA, by the Commission of Fine Arts. More about "Arc de Trump" design approved for Washington DC
In this week's comments update, readers are discussing the Stratos Hyperscale Data Center in Utah, designed by Gensler. More about "Welcome to our brave new world, I suppose" says commenter