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.
After more than a decade since the initial competition, Stockholm is set to welcome the new headquarters of the Nobel Foundation, a striking building designed as a tribute to the cultural identity of the Swedish capital.
The Paris-based practice tells Domus about its expansion project for the ESSEC Business School campus, where bioclimatic façades and new pedagogical models come together in a design that ultimately aims to project long-term vision.
Between green ceramic surfaces and the earthy tones of Oaxaca, Omar Vergara Taller expanded an apartment with a hybrid rooftop where social and private spaces intertwine, embracing the surrounding city as a landscape.
From Lisbon to Shanghai, Domus has selected twenty bookstores to discover, ranging from projects by major architects to extraordinary experiments.
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.
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.
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 island that Donald Trump wants to become part of the United States is home to remarkable contemporary architecture, designed to adapt to a climate unlike any other in the world.
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.
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.
