Context interpretation drives the entire project by Santiago Bertotti: a villa immersed in nature, defined by warm tones and carefully calibrated openings toward the outdoors.
Designed in the early 2000s, Foster + Partners’ City Hall formed part of a cluster of culturally iconographic buildings. Today, it is being redeveloped to a new design by Gensler, widening its base and its usefulness.
For the Japanese architect, building means creating a harmonious ecosystem in which the artificial and the natural intertwine — as he told Domus.
Designed by Stanaćev Granados, this pavilion on the Chilean coast revisits local tradition through an architecture that blends into the landscape without disappearing into it.
Designed by 3XN and BVN Architecture, the Sydney Fish Market reveals the harbour’s daily choreography, where working infrastructure and public routes intertwine. Domus spoke with the architects behind the project.
Ingenious in its interior layout, installable almost anywhere, light even in concept: the Refuge Tonneau, designed together with Pierre Jeanneret and engineer André Tournon in 1938, was never built until recent years. Her daughter Pernette tells the story to Domus.
For twenty years, from 1987 to 2007, Gabriele Basilico photographed the buildings of the Milanese architect. A new volume published by Humboldt Books recounts the relationship between the photographer and the architect, which began with an assignment for Domus.
As Bangladesh prepares for crucial national elections, Louis Kahn’s Jatiyo Sangsad Bhaban stands as a monumental fusion of brutalism, light, and post-independence identity.
Widely criticized as nostalgic and out of scale, 270 Park is in fact a radical reinvention of the skyscraper: a mega-structure that condenses Manhattan’s history while declaring a new era of density.
Designed for a couple and their large family, this home brings together the West Coast and the East Coast, blending the solidity of rural architecture with Pacific light and a strong vocation for convivial living.
A boldly contemporary new layer joins the natural process of historical stratification in a woodland building in the Czech Republic, introducing new living spaces while establishing an unprecedented relationship with the surrounding landscape.
Art sets the pace and architecture follows
Frederic Migayrou, curator of the exhibition “Aerodream” at the Centre Pompidou-Metz, tells us the aesthetic and social evolution of these majestic inflatable structures, from Second World War until today.
We rediscovered a monumental feat of engineering, built during the First World War in the countryside near Syracuse. After decades of neglect, the structure is now closed to the public for safety reasons.
In 1975, Emilio Ambasz envisioned an almost unreal villa—roofless and nearly wall-less—already anticipating sustainability. Fifty years later, the Casa de Retiro Espiritual shows how a functional dwelling can also be spiritual.
