BriefSuzhou 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.
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Field Notes
Briefs on exhibitions, openings, releases and moments worth knowing now.
13 stories in the seriesField Notes is the Journal’s concise record of exhibitions, openings, releases and cultural moments. Short in form and specific in focus, each note explains why the event matters now.
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BriefGaudí’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.
BriefFifteen 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.
BriefCalder 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?
BriefHotel 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.
BriefThe 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.
BriefPrague’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.
BriefWorld 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.
BriefLondon 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.
BriefKips 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.
BriefHokusai’s Great Wave, Rebuilt to Disappear
For 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.
BriefWindsor’s New Garden Follows the Orbit of Venus
A redesigned garden at Windsor Castle turns an eight-year planetary path into planting, movement and a new public landscape.
BriefVitra’s Water Garden Starts With a Factory Roof
Bas Smets turns rainwater, excavated soil and climate-resilient planting into a working landscape at the Vitra Campus.
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