Best of #April

Among April’s most read articles an Italy’s portrait, public architectures and interactive design.

Silvia Camporesi, Atlas Italie
Interactive objects, spectacular architectures and photographic reality interpretations are among the most read articles of April on Domusweb.


– In the breathtaking lansdcape along the Paiva river in Portugal, engineering studio Trimétrica designed a walkway in dialogue with nature, morphology and panoramic views.

– In this multifunctional building for sports and events in Basel, Manuelle Gautrand links to each other distinct volumes and their functions, under a scenographic metallic shell.


– David Chipperflield’s pavilion for Arch and Art – a project by Assolombarda Confindustria Milano Monza e Brianza realized by Domus – is a room with a room: the one of Michelangelo Pistoletto.

–  During one and a half year Silvia Camporesi explored all the twenty Italian regions, looking for forgotten and abandoned villages and buildings. Atlas Italiae is an atlas of the disappearance.


– Carlo Ratti Associati, with the support of Swiss furniture manufacturer Vitra, has developed Lift-Bit, the world’s first Internet-of-Things sofa, on show at Triennale.

– The pavilion, designed by Aurélie Kasisi and Anouk Dandrieu, reflects Charlie Hebdo’s spirit: it challenges convention by opposing itself to the traditional exhibition format.


– A collective exhibition curated by PS and Secondome revives a long-abandoned historic Milan mansion, with room after room displaying new Italian craftworks.

– Attending Milan Design Week for the first time, Studio Nito wins third prize at the SaloneSatellite Award with handwoven pieces.

– With the show at the Fabbrica del Vapore, Stefano Micelli recounts a revolution in technology that has transformed our way of producing, consuming and, above all, of designing.

– With her images, Noémie Goudal constructs enigmatic work capable of introducing intimate and introspective questioning of our presence in cosmic space.


Top image: Silvia Camporesi, Atlas Italie

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