Current Issue: Domus 882

Cover

A ruin of the future? The 330-metre-tall skeleton of an unfinished hotel towers like a concrete pyramid over North Korea’s capital, Pyongyang. Domus is launching a call for proposals to transform the Ryugyong Hotel into a worldwide antenna for ideas. .. Photograph by Armin Linke

Calendar

Edited by Elena Sommariva, Luigi Spinelli

A Letter from Biella. “Waiting for water”

A Letter from Basle. Superflex, Supershow

Ettore Sottsass. Pictures from a window

Photoshop Urbanism

Domus reports from Pyongyang, the capital of North Korea. Texts by Andrea Petrecca. Photographs by Armin Linke, Andrea Petrecca. Edited by Armin Linke, Andrea Petrecca, Elena Sommariva

Armin Linke Pyongyang Set

The capital of North Korea revealed by the images of Armin Linke

Vezzoli’s Caligula

Can power express itself ethically? This is the dilemma at the heart of Trailer for a Remake of Gore Vidal’s Caligula, a preview for a film that does not exist, screened at the 2005 Venice Art Biennale. Text by Caroline Corbetta. Edited by Loredana Mascheroni

Giancarlo De Carlo. The visibility of contemporary architecture

Taking an emblematic design for a tower-lift in Ancona as his cue, De Carlo argues contemporary architecture’s right to be as visible as the architecture of previous eras. Edited by Mario Piazza, Maria Cristina Tommasini

Ábalos & Herreros. With a tilted head

The project by Ábalos & Herreros for a large multifunctional building in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. Text by Iñaki Ábalos. Photography by Paolo Rosselli. Edited by Rita Capezzuto

Mauthausen Facetti Belgiojoso

The joy of a desperate encounter. Germano Facetti remembers Lodovico Barbiano di Belgiojoso. Texts by Benedetto Besio. Photography by Guido Grugnola. Edited by Loredana Mascheroni, Mario Piazza

Milan furniture set: Sejima + Nishizawa SANAA, Grcic, Bouroullec, Sottsass

Four pieces of furniture seen in Milan during the Furniture Fair. Edited by Francesca Picchi. Photography by Ramak Fazel

Interview: Annette Messager

Hans Ulrich Obrist interviews Annette Messager, a French artist who has sperimented with a wide variety of media. Edited by Thomas Boutoux, Loredana Mascheroni

Art Graft Luisa Lambri

Five unpublished photographs

Post-it: Books

Edited by Gianmario Andreani

Theory and design in Grassi

Levi Montalcini and Turin’s rationalism

Italian railways

Rassegna: Lights

Edited by Maria Cristina Tommasini. With a text by Bruce Sterling

Panorama

El Topo: Paloma Varga Weisz

Edited by Maurizio Cattelan, Massimiliano Gioni and Ali Subotnick (Wrong Gallery)