USA
David Adjaye, Renzo Piano and Snøhetta among seven-strong shortlist for Obama Library
SOM recasts old San Francisco movie house for new role as a nonprofit theatre
Yves Béhar designs slanted Surf Shack for Design Miami
Mark Foster Gage proposes elaborate gargoyle-covered skyscraper for New York
Perkins Eastman proposes turning New York’s Broadway into one long park
Patricia Urquiola overhauls Cassina’s New York showroom
LA’s Petersen Automotive Museum reopens with KPF-designed metal-ribbon facade
Mountaineer Prototype by James Capper walks on hydraulic legs
Taylor and Miller creates sculptural weekend home beside a Massachusetts lake
US designers create Christmas decorations to raise funds for Detroit museum
Harvard Students create pink pavilion of 200 elevated models outside Design Miami
Venturi and Scott Brown to receive the 2016 AIA Gold Medal
Gluckman Tang designs museums for art and model trains in western Massachusetts
Commune converts 1960s Space Age-style bank into a hotel in North Carolina
Oregon fire station by Hennebery Eddy features a burnt wood facade
Thomas Heatherwick to redesign home of New York Philharmonic orchestra
Sight Unseen’s LA exhibition showcases work from “focal point of the American design scene”
Seattle running store by goCstudio has hanging racks that can be raised toward the ceiling
Tobias Rehberger installs pixelated porn at Art Basel Miami Beach
OMA’s Frank Lloyd Wright-inspired Faena Forum takes shape in Miami Beach
Seattle eyewear store by Best Practice Architecture is designed to “toy with perception”
Fernando Romero’s El Sol resembles a glowing red sun made from thousands of bespoke crystals
Snarkitecture customises private jet with blue ombre finish
