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It's been another weird few weeks in the United States.
To start, the expectedly odd – Burning Man completed its 40th anniversary festival in the Nevada salt flats.
Photographer Gurpreet Chawla hit the desert to capture some of the quirky architectural installations in the dust of the iconic festival.
In DC, the saga of the "Arc de Trump" continued with the President suggesting the controversial structure might host drones, justifying the design with national defence, similar to the bunker under the White House ballroom.
Meanwhile, US reporter Ellen Eberhardt dove into the design of New York's upcoming borough-based jails and asked whether architects should be working on these projects in the first place.
In the delightful category, experimental architecture studio MOS revealed an aluminium pavilion at Art Omi in Upstate New York.
In the world of conceptual design, a plush toy addressed the uncanny hum of data centres, while a perspectival installation poked at the symbolism of another arch, Saarinen's Gateway Arch in St Louis.
Read all the stories from the last two weeks in the US.
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