Issue 04 · October 2026 · Published October 26
The October Edit
Twenty stories across ten editorial fields. October’s openings, exhibitions and new objects bring material choices, spatial decisions and the work of design into focus.
Interior Design
Ressource Brings Le Corbusier Colour to Contemporary Interiors
Launched 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.
By Coral Gayoso
APPARATUS Builds Act V Around a Persian Fable
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.
By Coral GayosoArchitecture
Lion Green Road and the Space Between Homes
October’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.
By Coral Gayoso
Design Museum Gent Reconnects Its Historic Buildings
Reopened 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.
By Coral GayosoConstruction & Development
The Capital Behind Regenerative Design
A 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.
By Coral Gayoso
How ALIA Brings a Modular Neighbourhood Together
Included 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.
By Coral GayosoReal Estate
EXPO REAL Puts Infrastructure Inside the Property Plan
The 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.
By Coral Gayoso
What the New Alpine Report Means for Home Design
Knight 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.
By Coral GayosoArt & Culture
Prune Nourry Places Eighteen Sculptors Back in View
At 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.
By Coral Gayoso
Alice Diop Builds a Sequence of Rooms for Looking
Presented 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.
By Coral GayosoPhotography
Graciela Iturbide and the Time Inside a Photograph
An 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.
By Coral Gayoso
Japanese Women Photographers Expand the Frame at ICP
The 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.
By Coral GayosoLandscape
The Hirshhorn Garden Prepares to Rejoin the City
Ahead 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.
By Coral Gayoso
A Garden Built for Discovery at Niagara
Construction 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.
By Coral GayosoPractice
Architecture Studios Face a Gap Between Inquiries and Contracts
AIA’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.
By Coral Gayoso
Design Council Brings Environmental Skills Into Studio Practice
Launched 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.
By Coral GayosoObjects
Mathias Bengtsson Gives the Chair a Sculptural Presence
Awarded 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.
By Coral Gayoso
LJUS and the Shape of an Evening
Byredo 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.
By Coral GayosoHospitality
The Webster Creates Rooms for Reading and Company
Opened 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.
By Coral Gayoso
The Cormorant Begins the Antarctic Journey on Land
Silversea’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.
By Coral Gayoso