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Presented in London during October’s Mayfair Design District programme, Act V brings Gabriel Hendifar’s family references, botanical forms and sensory interests into a collection conceived across several scales of an interior.
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BriefLaunched in Paris this October, Ressource’s edition of Le Corbusier’s 63 colours brings a historical system into contemporary interiors, exploring the relationships between surface, proportion and light.
BriefPresented in London during October’s Mayfair Design District programme, Act V brings Gabriel Hendifar’s family references, botanical forms and sensory interests into a collection conceived across several scales of an interior.
BriefOctober’s RIBA Stirling Prize turns attention to Mary Duggan Architects and RUFF Architects’ housing in Coulsdon, where the arrangement of buildings gives shared landscape a central role in everyday residential life.
BriefReopened on 3 October, Design Museum Gent brings its historic buildings into a continuous architectural sequence, with a new wing whose material development extends the project into the city around it.
BriefA new AIA report announced in October examines how project financing can support regenerative architecture, connecting environmental and social ambitions with the practical demands of construction.
BriefIncluded in the October programme of World of Modular Europe, a mixed-use timber project in Bavaria offers a focused way to examine the relationship between architectural variety, factory production and cross-border delivery.
BriefThe debut of InfrastructureNow at October’s EXPO REAL widens the conversation around real estate, bringing energy, digital networks and social infrastructure into the assessment of how a place can function over time.
BriefKnight Frank’s Alpine Report, published this October, describes a premium property market shaped by service, access and changing patterns of use, conditions with direct implications for the design of a mountain home.
BriefAt the Petit Palais, Visionnaires brings overlooked sculptors into the museum through portraits, changes of scale and a material dialogue with its collection. The October exhibition makes historical recognition a spatial question.
BriefPresented at the Palais d’Iéna during Art Basel Paris, Geste de Consolation moves between images, books, performances and sculpture, giving the filmmaker’s examination of representation an architectural dimension this October.
BriefAn October honour and exhibition in Wetzlar return attention to Graciela Iturbide’s sustained encounters with people and places, where a photograph’s immediate force can carry years of observation and return.
BriefThe first US presentation of I’m So Happy You Are Here opens at ICP this October, connecting photographic images, books and installations across generations of Japanese women and their distinct practices.
BriefAhead of its planned reopening on 31 October, Hiroshi Sugimoto’s redesign of the Hirshhorn Sculpture Garden brings circulation, gathering and the encounter with art into Washington’s public landscape.
BriefConstruction began this October on Niagara Parks’ new Children’s Garden, where interactive landscapes and a botanical setting are intended to give young visitors several ways to encounter the natural world.
BriefAIA’s October release of its Architecture Billings Index shows weakening business conditions at US firms, giving studio leaders a reason to examine how inquiries translate into contracts, workload and dependable forward planning.
BriefLaunched in October by the Design Council and University of the Arts London, Skills for Planet Learning Lab connects environmental knowledge with the conversations, methods and decisions that shape professional design work.
BriefAwarded Best Contemporary Work at Design Miami Paris this October, Membrane Chair places stainless steel, digital experimentation and the familiar scale of a seat within the same sculptural enquiry.
BriefByredo and Iittala’s October release brings glassmaking into contact with scent and flame, proposing a family of objects whose presence changes through use and the passing hours of a room.
BriefOpened in London this October, The Webster Covent Garden uses a redesigned existing hotel, a terrace facing Lincoln’s Inn Fields and spaces for reading to establish its first hospitality address.
BriefSilversea’s October preview of The Cormorant at 55 South introduces a hotel in Puerto Williams, connecting the Antarctic journey with regional materials, shared spaces and expedition expertise.
BriefAnnounced on September 16, the 2026 shortlist connects a university, a factory, an adapted office landmark and a house for art across Bangladesh and Belgium.
BriefThe Devon studio’s new lighting collection gives fine bone china another domestic role, with translucent pendants and table lamps made alongside hand-stitched linen shades.
BriefThe Art of Sound programme concluded on September 15, pairing an industrial London landmark with spatial works by Chris Watson, Max Cooper and fellow composers.
BriefReported on September 17, Grima’s appointment places climate and landscape at the centre of the Uzbekistan school’s 2027 programme, with applications open until October 25.
BriefA September 16 report brings the Michigan residence back into view, offering a timely look at the relationship between a historic house, its landscape and the next chapter of ownership.
BriefNewly opened beside Jinji Lake, BIG’s interconnected pavilions make movement through a landscape the museum’s central architectural idea.
BriefA September exhibition at the Sagrada Família reframes architectural legacy through the generations who have carried a shared project forward.
BriefAs September 11 marks twenty-five years since the attacks, the memorial’s water, trees and names offer a careful way to examine public remembrance.
BriefThe Philadelphia institution’s first September anniversary brings a useful question into focus: how should a garden change the way we return to art?
BriefA 1931 church becomes a small Los Angeles hotel, with its inherited rooms helping determine where hospitality belongs.
BriefA September anniversary makes London’s residential landmark a timely case for thinking about value at the scale of an entire place.
BriefSeptember acoustic testing for the Vltava Philharmonic brings physical evidence into the space between an architectural proposal and its construction.
BriefThe September 7–11 campaign places resilience and efficiency inside the everyday decisions of owners, designers and construction teams.
Feature / Special StoryIn Los Angeles, Ma Yansong’s museum and Mia Lehrer’s park replace a field of asphalt with a new public landscape for visual storytelling.
Feature / Special StoryFather Country I Do Love You follows one unnamed federal agent through 42 works—and asks what a life becomes when every trace can be classified.
Feature / Special StoryThe nonprofit publisher’s Upper West Side home makes the work behind books, exhibitions and photographic culture visible from the street.
Profile / VisitDear Valentine’s growing collection of New Orleans guesthouses treats preservation, local craft and residential ease as one hospitality model.
BriefAcross nine September days, installations, districts and debate turn London’s institutions and streets into one distributed design venue.
Feature / Special StoryOMA and Y.A. Studio turn a long-contested San Francisco site into 160 deeply affordable homes—and make the ground floor answer to the neighborhood.
Profile / VisitOttawa’s renewed promontory shifts attention from a dominant colonial statue toward the river, Indigenous knowledge and a landscape designed for return.
BriefThe 2026 New York show house opens in Greenwich Village with 22 designers—and makes collecting art part of the interior conversation from the stairs onward.
Profile / VisitAt Maison&Objet, Emily Wheeler, Tola Ojuolape and Reem Al-Sultan connect interiors to care, cultural memory and more inclusive creative systems.
Profile / VisitA Bordeaux retrospective gathers 180 objects to reveal the rigor, restraint and productive collaborations behind Pauline Deltour’s apparent simplicity.
At NGV Australia, fungi leather, hemp fibreboard and date-palm waste are placed inside a much longer history of making with plants.
Feature / Special StoryAt the Herschel Museum in Bath, a contemporary artist places astronomy inside the domestic rooms where observation became discovery.
Feature / Special StoryCompleted by the team she selected, the 2026 Venice Biennale carries Koyo Kouoh’s relational curatorial method across 110 participants and many geographies.
Profile / VisitThe 2026 Women in Architecture honorees connect place-based design, biogenic materials, landscape performance, firm leadership and public advocacy.
Feature / Special StoryAs search and social platforms prioritize primary, useful material, a design studio’s project archive is becoming both its evidence and its route to discovery.
Feature / Special StorySnøhetta’s new Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library begins with a radical premise: the landscape is not the setting for the architecture. It is the architecture.
Feature / Special StoryA four-day exhibition in Munich followed tea from West Java to German tables, revealing the plantations, ports, warehouses and images concealed inside an everyday ritual.
BriefFor four days in Brussels, Hiro Sugiyama’s Neo-Hokusai translates one of the world’s most familiar images into 1,680 square metres of flowers—and lets time complete the work.
Feature / Special StoryA major Paris retrospective brings Lee Miller back into view as the author of her own images: a surrealist experimenter, fashion photographer and war correspondent whose work refused a single identity.
Feature / Special StorySix Senses London transforms the former Whiteleys emporium into a hotel, spa and social club where preservation, wellness and urban hospitality are designed as one continuous experience.
Feature / Special StoryThe Source on South Temple combines a preserved midcentury IBM building with new housing, testing how adaptive reuse can turn architectural memory into everyday value.
Feature / Special StoryAt Haus der Kunst, air, spiders, water and Indigenous knowledge reorganize the museum as a network of human and more-than-human relationships.
Feature / Special StoryA reworked hotel beside Haneda Airport replaces the anonymous stopover with local movement, music and a deliberate invitation to begin exploring.
Feature / Special StoryKimpton El Castelar converts a historic Mexico City apartment building into a 34-room hotel where preservation is measured in atmosphere, not imitation.
BriefA redesigned garden at Windsor Castle turns an eight-year planetary path into planting, movement and a new public landscape.
BriefBas Smets turns rainwater, excavated soil and climate-resilient planting into a working landscape at the Vitra Campus.
Profile / VisitThe young Athens studio restores a nineteenth-century home in Plaka through pale surfaces, terrazzo and a disciplined attention to context.
Profile / VisitA young Accra studio uses pavilions, Ghanaian craft and lower-carbon concrete to build with a forested site above the Akwapim Ridge.
Feature / Special StoryThe festival’s 57th edition turns archives, data streams and contested histories into a city-wide argument about what images do now.
Feature / Special StoryA state-owned site beside the Intrepid Museum is selected for two connected towers, affordable housing and a new piece of public waterfront infrastructure.
Profile / VisitFurniture, sculpture, fashion and interiors meet in a practice shaped by material instinct, editorial intelligence and the freedom to remain uncategorized.
Profile / VisitResin, glass, stone and reflection become active experiences in the Rotterdam designer’s precise experiments with color and perception.
Profile / VisitStudio Ashby’s layered rooms begin with identity, craftsmanship and collecting—allowing homes to feel accumulated rather than installed.
Profile / VisitAt atelier masōmī, local materials, climate and collective memory become the foundation for contemporary civic architecture.
Profile / VisitFrom homes to the Harriet Tubman monument in Newark, Studio Cooke John works at the scale where bodies, streets and shared history meet.
Profile / VisitResidential, civic and humanitarian work reveal a practice in which cultural identity and social responsibility are forms of design intelligence.
Profile / VisitReddymade brings neuroaesthetics into architecture, public art and retail through a human-centered philosophy: form follows feeling.
Profile / VisitD.I.R.T. studio treats mines, factories and industrial remains as evidence—transforming degradation without erasing the stories held by a site.
Profile / VisitPattern, craft and historical reference meet in richly layered rooms whose exuberance is controlled by classical architectural discipline.
Profile / VisitThe Milan-based architect and designer moves between interiors, products and art direction through research, memory and precise visual invention.
Profile / VisitStudio-Lani brings craft, cultural memory and inclusive function together across furniture, lighting, sculpture and assistance devices.
Profile / VisitThe Nigerian-American designer combines advanced making, spiritual narrative and cross-cultural experience in objects that feel both functional and otherworldly.
Profile / VisitFrom VIA 57 West to CopenHill, BIG’s best-known projects make infrastructure, density and public life part of the same architectural idea.
Profile / VisitPolka dots, mirrored rooms and nearly nine decades of work reveal how sustained artistic language can become a global cultural force.
Profile / VisitFrom Juicy Salif to the transparent Louis Ghost chair, Starck shows how an everyday object can become instantly legible—and unforgettable.
Profile / VisitThe self-taught architect’s spaces show how restraint can heighten our awareness of wind, geometry, silence and changing daylight.
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Twenty stories across ten fields, following October’s openings, exhibitions, new objects and developments in design practice.
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