The last surviving building of the historic Innocenti plant in Milan’s Rubattino district, the Crystal Palace—long a favorite destination for urban explorers—is being transformed into a vast urban greenhouse dedicated to the propagation of plant species.
In Ponte Lambro, one of Milan’s most notorious unfinished developments is finally set to be completed and converted into a student housing complex with around 200 beds. The project traces its origins back to the Neighborhood Laboratory envisioned by Renzo Piano in the early 2000s.
From 24 October 2026, the Museo Civico in Bassano del Grappa will display 160 photographs from the Maison Européenne de la Photographie collection in Paris, tracing the career of the renowned Brazilian photographer. The exhibition will showcase his work from the mines of Serra Pelada to the migrations of Exodus, and the landscapes of Genesis.
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With a new collection, BorromeodeSilva has explored the identity of both a brand and one of the core spaces of domestic life, drawing on a distinctly Italian vocation for a practice-based dialogue. A story of interdisciplinary design and creative cross-pollination.
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From Gruppo A12 to Boeri Studio and later Barreca & La Varra, the Genoese architect helped reshape the relationship between nature, architecture and the city through projects such as the Bosco Verticale, Villa Méditerranée and 5Square.
From Buddhist monks and Dubai police officers to domestic androidi from Tesla, Unitree, and 1X: robotics seems obsessed with the human form. Yet, often the most useful robots have no face, legs, or arms: they are just boxes on wheels.
At the Schoelkopf Gallery in New York, 'Richard Estes: My Camera is My Sketchbook” is the first exhibition to display the photographs that Richard Estes used as working material. It reveals the method behind the paintings that defined American photorealism.
Standing 101 meters tall and funded by billionaire Gagik Tsarukyan, the gigantic statue of Jesus under construction near Yerevan aims to transform Armenia into a new religious tourism destination. However, the project is already at the center of several controversies.
At the Beyeler Foundation, one of the most famous museums designed by Renzo Piano, Peter Zumthor has designed a new complex set within the park. This extension doubles the site’s floor area and establishes a dialogue between two different architectural concepts: light and landscape.
The new Scribe Colorsoft is not an iPad, nor a ReMarkable, nor a true digital notebook. It is something more precise: a Kindle pushed to its most interesting limit, designed for reading, highlighting, annotating, and studying books in a deeper way.
The architects organised House H7 around parallel concrete walls that evoke Mies van der Rohe's floor plans, combining fluid interior spaces with an openness towards the landscape.
At MASSIMO DE CARLO, “Dimora Dislocata” brings the Polish-German artist’s sculptures into dialogue with Piero Portaluppi’s architecture. Chairs, televisions, cobblestones, and everyday household objects become tools for challenging our perception of reality.
The Swiss architecture firm Herzog & de Meuron has unveiled plans to redevelop the Palace of Congresses, one of the most iconic landmarks of communist-era Tirana. Alongside the 1980s building, a new mixed-use tower will rise, adding a striking new element to the Albanian capital’s evolving skyline.
From Coach to BookTok, passing through Dior, Valentino, and bookshelves displayed on Zoom: in the era of screens, the printed book has not disappeared, but has acquired a new symbolic, aesthetic, and social value.
At the Fondation Martell in Cognac, “Le singe et l’argile” explores the possibilities of co-creation between the human and non-human, transforming art and design into a laboratory for coexistence among species, matter, and the living.
From California swimming pools to iPad drawings, David Hockney transformed colour, space and technology into a new way of seeing. Dead at 88, he remains one of the artists who most profoundly shaped contemporary visual culture.
From fake bread bags to pop album covers, from theatrical portraits to Ufos: Canadian artist Chloe Wise has built an imagery in which consumption, desire, irony and unease become a seductive form of critique.
Nominated World Design Capital 2026, the Frankfurt RheinMain metropolitan region has built its program around an unusual conviction: design can help strengthen democracy, making civic participation more open, inclusive, and accessible.
Nippon Over Loreto reimagines Via Padova and Piazzale Loreto as improbable yet surprisingly convincing corners of Tokyo. What started as a playful Instagram project has become a reflection on urban imagination, place branding, and neighborhood identity.
In his restless and vulnerable nudes, Egon Schiele transformed the body into an unfiltered confession, portraying desire, solitude, and human fragility with a sincerity that remains disarming to this day.
We know everything about everything, yet we have seen almost nothing. We spend our days immersed in clips, excerpts, and fragments that we will never experience in full. This is not a distraction: it is the way we come to know the world today.
For more than a decade, augmented reality in museums has often remained a limited add-on. At Adi Design Museum, however, Musa is a new interactive digital avatar that accompanies visitors through the Compasso d’Oro Collection, answers questions, and suggests personalized routes.
Cap_able’s textiles use adversarial patterns to confuse facial recognition systems. A form of resistance design that turns fashion into a political tool against biometric surveillance.
Designed in 1956, Spalter turned a simple household appliance into an extension of the body. Nearly seventy years later, its vision of the relationship between people and technology feels remarkably contemporary.
From Berlin’s Mäusebunker to Toronto’s Ontario Science Centre, via London and Boston: amid decay, social stigma, environmental costs, and adaptive reuse, the fate of Brutalism is redefining the very meaning of architectural preservation.
It is not just a virtual object that appeared in “007 First Light”: the new Seamaster Diver 300M Chronograph 007 First Light actually exists and can be purchased for 9,200 euros.
OMA’s first completed project in Turkey transforms the historic spaces of the former imperial arsenal on the Golden Horn into a luxury department store as part of one of Istanbul’s most ambitious urban regeneration programmes.
Recycled paper, demolished villages, post-earthquake rubble and disused shipping containers: five projects show how waste can be transformed into a creative, economic and cultural resource.
From Diane Keaton to David Lynch and Martin Margiela: auctions, archives, and personal objects show how an artist’s cultural legacy today increasingly passes through the spaces they inhabited, collected, and preserved.
The Milanese fashion house and Axiom Space have developed the new system that regulates astronauts’ temperature, breathing, and comfort during future Artemis missions. It will be worn beneath the NASA spacesuit for the next lunar landing, scheduled for 2028.
Dancing in a neogothic Ohio prison, in a two-thousand-year-old Roman quarry, or inside a socialist Hungarian power plant: ten summer festivals where the location matters just as much as the line-up.
