From Lisbon to Shanghai, Domus has selected twenty bookstores to discover, ranging from projects by major architects to extraordinary experiments.
As protests postpone the opening of Nigeria’s Museum of West African Art in Benin City, David Adjaye’s architecture already articulates a powerful vision for West African modernism, rooted in history, material culture and sustainable construction.
Designed by Carolina Jaimes, Juan Esteban López and Alejandro Puentes, the Brutalist-inspired building was conceived as a “sonic break” in the urban fabric of the Colombian capital.
An electric drive-in emerging from the fog of the Po Valley: this is the Power Hub Monza, designed by Park for A2A, generating what a service station usually consumes.
One of the rarest architectural works by the master of Italian design: the Olabuenaga House in Maui is a total work of art that merges architecture, interiors, and objects into a habitable manifesto of Sottsass’s thinking.
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.
Not far from the villa completed in 1964 by the founder of Domus, literature professor Azar Nafisi gathers veiled female students in her living room to read banned books. It is the 1990s, and her story goes around the world.
In Mariupol, the battle between Russia and Ukraine is over, but another war is still being fought: an ideological one, waged through architecture as well.
Titled a serpentine, the 2026 Serpentine Pavilion in London reinterprets the brick-wall traditions of English architecture through the vision of the Mexican studio Lanza Atelier.
Just outside Padua in northern Italy, the architecture studio AACM – Atelier Architettura Chinello Morandi has reinterpreted a traditional rural building type to create a new kindergarten: a small village of archetypal volumes nestled among the trees.
The world’s leading sports-architecture practice has designed the Prince Moulay Abdellah Stadium, a project meant to pave the way for Morocco’s bid to host the 2030 World Cup. We discussed it with François Clément, Senior Principal at Populous EMEA.
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.
Since WWII, the opera house has increasingly evolved into an autonomous urban sculpture—one able to redraw skylines and shape social dynamics far beyond the performance itself. From Paris to Sydney, New York to China, we explore a remarkable transformation.
To reinterpret a modern architectural legacy, this restoration and extension project draws on the material textures and color palette of its surroundings, while simultaneously dissolving them through a play of transparency and softened, layered views.
