Modu clads Houston building with "self-cooling" exterior
Brooklyn-based studio Modu has employed a series of techniques that lower ambient air temperature in order to help cool the interior and exterior of this Houston building. More
Brooklyn-based studio Modu has employed a series of techniques that lower ambient air temperature in order to help cool the interior and exterior of this Houston building. More
New York City-based Gachot Studios has revamped a NoHo townhouse to host a snug cocktail bar, in which exposed stone walls and dark wood contrast a creamy colour palette. More
US studio The Miller Hull Partnership has completed the Health Sciences Education Building in Seattle, which features corrugated metal cladding and a warm interior that departs from the "hospital-like environments found in most university medical buildings". More
Ross Barney Architects has created a pavilion dedicated to Haitian entrepreneur Jean Baptiste Pointe DuSable, the first non-Indigenous settler of Chicago, for the city's architecture biennial. More
US-based architecture studio SOM has completed a restoration of the Lever House seventy years after the studio originally designed the historic New York City office building. More
New York design studio Stickbulb has launched Treeline, a series of lighting created using wood sourced from trees that had been removed from New York City's "urban forest". More
Climate technology company Heirloom has opened the first commercial Direct Air Capture plant in the US, which will sequester atmospheric carbon for permanent storage using energy-efficient kilns. More
Local studio Michael Hsu Office of Architecture has completed a house clad in limestone bricks and hemlock siding overlooking a nature preserve in Austin. More
Climate change is making it harder to prioritise retrofitting buildings to withstand earthquakes, architect John Lesak tells Dezeen in this interview for our Designing for Disaster series. More
PLY+ and MPR Arquitectos have transformed a building at a former Catholic college into the School at Marygrove Elementary, filling it with colours and shapes that help spark "experimentation and exploration" among children. More
Production designer Ruth De Jong has installed a house modelled on her set design for Jordan Peele's film Nope at the Chicago Architecture Biennial as part of a series of installations exploring horror and architecture. More
US architecture studio Schaum/Shieh has embedded a Virginia house with irregularly shaped volumes into the contours of a steep site. More
Norman Teague Design Studios has erected a plywood structure as a full-scale model of the future monument to American abolitionists Frederick and Anna Douglass, for the Chicago Architecture Biennial. More
Local design studio Tian & Teague has created a series of furniture and homeware based on the everyday struggles of living in New York City, including a tufted rug made to resemble a run-over rat. More
US studio CookFox Architects has designed a museum dedicated to American musician Bruce Springsteen, which will be located in New Jersey. More
New York-based studios Ennead Architects and Rockwell Group have completed the renovation of an academic building for Johns Hopkins University in Washington, DC with "floating" classrooms at its core. More
Sweden-born architect Fredrik Nilsson has completed a wood-clad residence for his family that incorporates Scandinavian modernism and the "bohemian experimentalism of the LA Eastside". More
A wooden pavilion shaped by dehydration and banners made from found urban objects are on show at Chicago's James R Thompson Center for the Chicago Architecture Biennial. More
US architecture studio Dash Marshall has completed an adaptive reuse project, transforming a historic garage into a performing arts theatre in Detroit, Michigan. More
This sprawling white concrete house in California is laid out like a "village" of open and enclosed spaces, with architecture by Masastudio and interiors by Kelly Wearstler. More