Issue 03 · September 2026 · Updated September 17
The September Season
28 stories across ten editorial fields. This week’s architecture, design and cultural news joins new openings, exhibition previews and considered perspectives.
Architecture
Four Finalists Bring Everyday Life Into the RIBA International Prize
Announced on September 16, the 2026 shortlist connects a university, a factory, an adapted office landmark and a house for art across Bangladesh and Belgium.
3 min read · By Coral Gayoso
Suzhou MoCA Lets the Garden Organize the Museum
Newly opened beside Jinji Lake, BIG’s interconnected pavilions make movement through a landscape the museum’s central architectural idea.
2 min read · By Coral Gayoso
Gaudí’s Centenary Turns Toward the People Behind the Basilica
A September exhibition at the Sagrada Família reframes architectural legacy through the generations who have carried a shared project forward.
2 min read · By Noel Lenzi
The Lucas Museum Turns an Asphalt Lot Into a Civic Landscape
In Los Angeles, Ma Yansong’s museum and Mia Lehrer’s park replace a field of asphalt with a new public landscape for visual storytelling.
7 min read · By Coral GayosoInterior Design
Kips Bay Brings Fine Art Into the Show House
The 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.
3 min read · By Noel Lenzi
Three Women Expanding What Design Leadership Can Do
At Maison&Objet, Emily Wheeler, Tola Ojuolape and Reem Al-Sultan connect interiors to care, cultural memory and more inclusive creative systems.
4 min read · By Martina S.Landscape
Fifteen Years of a Landscape That Holds an Absence
As September 11 marks twenty-five years since the attacks, the memorial’s water, trees and names offer a careful way to examine public remembrance.
3 min read · By Coral Gayoso
Calder Gardens Approaches Its First Full Turn of the Seasons
The Philadelphia institution’s first September anniversary brings a useful question into focus: how should a garden change the way we return to art?
3 min read · By Noel Lenzi
Kìwekì Point Rewrites the Monument Through Landscape
Ottawa’s renewed promontory shifts attention from a dominant colonial statue toward the river, Indigenous knowledge and a landscape designed for return.
4 min read · By Martina S.Objects
Feldspar Moves From the Table to the Light Above It
The 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.
3 min read · By Coral Gayoso
Pauline Deltour Made Precision Feel Effortless
A Bordeaux retrospective gathers 180 objects to reveal the rigor, restraint and productive collaborations behind Pauline Deltour’s apparent simplicity.
4 min read · By Coral GayosoPlant Life Returns Design to Its Oldest Material Partner
At NGV Australia, fungi leather, hemp fibreboard and date-palm waste are placed inside a much longer history of making with plants.
4 min read · By Martina S.Hospitality
Hotel Lucile Finds a New Use for a Silver Lake Landmark
A 1931 church becomes a small Los Angeles hotel, with its inherited rooms helping determine where hospitality belongs.
3 min read · By Noel Lenzi
Melissa Shelton Builds Hospitality From Houses With Memory
Dear Valentine’s growing collection of New Orleans guesthouses treats preservation, local craft and residential ease as one hospitality model.
4 min read · By Noel LenziReal Estate
Frank Lloyd Wright’s Eppstein House Returns to the Market
A 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.
2 min read · By Coral Gayoso
The Barbican at Twenty-Five Years of Listed Status
A September anniversary makes London’s residential landmark a timely case for thinking about value at the scale of an entire place.
3 min read · By Coral Gayoso
730 Stanyan Makes Affordable Housing Hold the Corner
OMA 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.
7 min read · By Noel LenziPhotography
Taryn Simon Turns the Guggenheim Into a Chain of Evidence
Father 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.
7 min read · By Noel Lenzi
Aperture Gives Photography a Permanent Room in New York
The nonprofit publisher’s Upper West Side home makes the work behind books, exhibitions and photographic culture visible from the street.
7 min read · By Martina S.Art & Culture
Sound Brings Wapping’s Hydraulic Power Station Back Into Public View
The Art of Sound programme concluded on September 15, pairing an industrial London landmark with spatial works by Chris Watson, Max Cooper and fellow composers.
3 min read · By Coral Gayoso
London Design Festival 2026 Makes the City the Exhibition
Across nine September days, installations, districts and debate turn London’s institutions and streets into one distributed design venue.
3 min read · By Coral Gayoso
Grace Weir Brings the Cosmos Back to the Dining Table
At the Herschel Museum in Bath, a contemporary artist places astronomy inside the domestic rooms where observation became discovery.
7 min read · By Coral Gayoso
Koyo Kouoh’s In Minor Keys Teaches the Biennale to Listen
Completed by the team she selected, the 2026 Venice Biennale carries Koyo Kouoh’s relational curatorial method across 110 participants and many geographies.
7 min read · By Martina S.Practice
Joseph Grima Takes Aral School Into Its Next Chapter
Reported 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.
2 min read · By Coral Gayoso
Five Women Show How Architectural Practice Is Changing
The 2026 Women in Architecture honorees connect place-based design, biogenic materials, landscape performance, firm leadership and public advocacy.
4 min read · By Coral Gayoso
Originality Is Becoming Distribution Infrastructure
As search and social platforms prioritize primary, useful material, a design studio’s project archive is becoming both its evidence and its route to discovery.
7 min read · By Coral GayosoConstruction & Development
Prague’s Next Concert Hall Is Being Tested at One-Tenth Scale
September acoustic testing for the Vltava Philharmonic brings physical evidence into the space between an architectural proposal and its construction.
3 min read · By Coral Gayoso
World Green Building Week Asks Whether Buildings Are Ready
The September 7–11 campaign places resilience and efficiency inside the everyday decisions of owners, designers and construction teams.
3 min read · By Noel Lenzi