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From Stefan Sagmeister’s attempts to create a happy life to MASS Design Group’s efforts to engineer away an epidemic, the New York Architecture & Design Film Festival covers plenty of creative territory.

Author Ruth Slavid looks at the design ingenuity of an Antarctic research station, plus a film that imagines a post-apocalyptic residential tower, and a podcast created by and for graphic designers.

Rotterdam city planner Marc Verheijen digs deep into infrastructure, plus Simon Fraser University’s dutchDesign films and a catalogue David Adjaye’s collaborations.

A documentary that leads us through the living tour-de-force that is BIG’s 8 House, a book on design inventions that keep us connected, yet untethered from the office, and a field guide to the creation of the High Line.

A documentary revisiting the 1964 New York State Pavilion, a compendium by Thomas Heatherwick and a collection of pop-up installations that explore the “flexibilisation” of urban environments.

Furniture and product designer Sebastian Herkner, who created the Das Haus installation at this week’s IMM Cologne, on where he finds inspiration.

The hotel, the suburb, the spaceship, the flat and the cabin – in our Halloween guide to the movies, we look at five more architectural memes that get major play in horrors and thrillers.

It all comes down to atmosphere: a scary movie can succeed or fail based on how well it conveys a sense of place. In time for Halloween, we’ve rounded up 10 architectural typologies – archi-types, if you will – that pop up repeatedly in spine-tingling films, and consider what they reveal about the things we fear most.

This week, the annual film extravaganza explores A&D’s big personalities – like David Adjaye and Bjarke Ingels – and bigger issues, like disaster-proof architecture and urban displacement.

A catalogue of the best in Behance.net, an assessment of the modern skyscraper and a documentary on everything – from design scheme to local politics – that went into relaunching the Rijksmuseum.