This week, Dezeen reported on the world's blackest black material engineered by MIT, and the record-breaking Central Park Tower topped out in New York.

MIT researchers have accidentally engineered the blackest black material while experimenting with ways to grow carbon nanotubes (CNT) on aluminium.
The material can absorb 99.995 percent of visible light, and is said to be "10 times blacker than anything that's ever been reported" including Vantablack for which Anish Kapoor has exclusive rights.
Central Park Tower becomes world's tallest residential skyscraper
Another record was broken this week as Central Park Tower topped out in New York at 472.4 metres, becoming the world's tallest residential skyscraper.
Designed by Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill, the supertall glass-steel skyscraper has stolen the title from Rafael Viñoly's 432 Park Avenue that rises 426 metres. BIG teams up with Robert De Niro for Wildflower Film Studio in New York
Elsewhere in New York, Japanese architect Sou Fujimoto revealed visuals of a 10-storey co-living complex for an historic Brooklyn site, which will be his first project in the city.
BIG also announced plans to build the Wildflower Film Studio ? an angular building in Queens dubbed as a hub for film and television that is being developed with a team including actor and producer Robert De Niro.
Foster + Partners' latest Apple Store opened in central Tokyo, which is fronted by seven large windows with cast aluminium frames designed to e...