Bill Gates plans smart city in Arizona desert
Tech billionaire Bill Gates has invested in a huge patch of land west of Phoenix, Arizona, with the intention of building a new smart city. More
Tech billionaire Bill Gates has invested in a huge patch of land west of Phoenix, Arizona, with the intention of building a new smart city. More
British architect Norman Foster has criticised postmodern architecture for not being serious enough, but believes important examples like Philip Johnson's AT&T Building in New York should still be preserved. More
American design firm Studio O+A has created an office in San Francisco that communicates "new ways of thinking and working" for a major financial services company. More
Minimal fashion brand The Arrivals has opened pop-up stores in New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco, where designers Bower and Lotte Van Velzen have used metallic and russet surfaces to match the colour palette of this season's collection. More
Utah firm Imbue Design has designed various outdoor living spaces, including a protected courtyard and a wrap-around deck, for a family home in Park City. More
Red and grey tones run through the rammed earth walls that US firm Feldman Architecture has used to build this retreat on a farm in California's Central Valley. More
Removing interior walls and expanding the roofline of this bungalow in Austin, Texas, allowed Murray Legge Architecture to create a light-filled living space for a local newspaper editor and her family. More
Mexican architecture studio Productora has attached a two-storey steel unit onto the back of a bungalow in California to add more living space. More
The Calvin Klein flagship on New York's Madison Avenue has gone from "minimal to maximal", with a bright yellow makeover forming the backdrop for artworks celebrating Americana. More
WeWork is continuing its expansion beyond coworking with a kindergarten called WeGrow, which will be designed by Danish architecture firm BIG in New York City. More
Filmmaker Nathan Eddy has released a movie showcasing architect Helmut Jahn's James R Thompson Center in Chicago, in a bid to protect the postmodern government building from demolition. More
Uber has partnered with NASA to develop an on-demand electric aircraft taxi service, which is scheduled to begin flights in Los Angeles in three years time. More
A glazed stairwell brings light from a roof window down through this narrow townhouse in Brooklyn, renovated by New York studio GRT Architects with splashes of colour. More
Indigo walls and furniture form dining areas for this Japanese restaurant in Midtown Manhattan, while geometric-patterned wall surfaces match the menus and tableware. More
Concrete walls that once enclosed horse stalls are now used as room dividers in this modern guest house by The Construction Zone, a design-build firm in Phoenix. More
New York jewellers Tiffany & Co has created a line of everyday items re-imagined in expensive materials, including a gold and silver tin can and a ball of yarn recreated in handspun silver for £6,840. More
Brooklyn studio DJDS has redesigned the interior of a loft apartment in Lower Manhattan, using white, black, brass and wood surfaces throughout. More
A steel-framed building in Fayetteville, Arkansas, has been transformed into an educational facility with the addition of white cladding, tall linear windows and a second floor. More
David Zwirner Gallery is showing concurrent exhibitions of work by Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama, including her iconic fully-mirrored rooms and spotty spaces, in New York's Chelsea. More
A pouf packed with plants, a faceted flat-packed hideaway and a big ball of twine are among the shelters that Los Angeles-based architects and designers have created for the city's stray cats. More