Every year is made up of stories—our own and those of the world. Domus tells the latter, and at the end of the year we invite you to revisit them more slowly, with a selection of articles to reread (or savor for the first time) over the holidays.
Accompanied by microphones and recorders, artist Yuval Avital is travelling through Valtellina, transforming the region's voices and sounds into three sound sculptures for Milano Cortina 2026.
Between completed restorations, unrealized projects, and evolving heritage, renovations reveal better than anything else where global architecture is heading today.
Between divine law and earthly power, art has shaped Justice for centuries as a moral, political, and cosmic principle. From Giotto to the Baroque era, an iconographic journey into the heart of the West.
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The year 2026 is shaping up to be one of new museums, major global events, and urban transformations. In this evolving landscape, Domus has selected ten architectural works that are nearing completion.
A team led by the Dutch studio has won the two-stage international design competition for the museum’s redevelopment, combining its modern identity with new functional requirements and a renewed dialogue with the city.
AI-generated animated selfies could become the next big trend: short, spectacular, and instantly readable, they are perfectly designed to stop the scroll.
Between the hype of collectible design, medieval revivals, modern and postmodern legacies, Montelupo Fiorentino becomes a case study for understanding where ceramics are truly heading today.
This year, you could have lived in Zaha Hadid’s final skyscraper in Miami, in a bubble house in New York, or in Le Corbusier’s Unité d’Habitation in Marseille. Just kidding—but at least you can admire them in this selection of architectural masterpieces on the market in 2025.
The renovation project by Startup Architettura transforms the formal and rigid existing space into a dynamic and lively apartment, where the furnishings are arranged like display cases in a museum exhibition.
Until December 24, the British artist’s anti-ornamental Christmas tree takes center stage, alongside other works, in Apple’s “Your Tree on Battersea” projections.
The winning images have been picked among 2 million submissions coming from 87 different countries. All pictures were shot on Oppo or OnePlus devices.
Line C enters the heart of the Capital with two new “archaeo-stations,” Colosseo–Fori Imperiali and Porta Metronia, which bring together contemporary infrastructure, historical heritage, and underground museum routes.
The face is no longer merely the site of identity, but a designed interface: between filters, “AI-inspired” surgery, parametric aesthetics and body modification, contemporary culture radically reformulates the relationship between image, technology and subjectivity.
Oak wood and terrazzo with colored glass inlays run across all surfaces: material variation is reduced to a minimum, becoming the very richness of this urban domestic space.
With the polycarbonate greenhouse that extended the domestic space of Maison Latapie in Bordeaux, Pritzker Prize laureates Anne Lacaton and Jean-Philippe Vassal wrote a new chapter in contemporary architecture in 1993: now there is an unprecedented opportunity to live in it.
Hito Steyerl’s “The Island” explores how images, technology, and power intertwine across parallel worlds. We trace the artist behind the exhibition currently on view at Fondazione Prada.
From curatorship to cultural strategy, Simone LeAmon launches a new ambition for the Design Institute of Australia: to make design an engine of identity and a horizon for the country’s future.
The new year is approaching, along with our guide to the exhibitions that will shape the international cultural landscape
In the southern area of Milan, the Parco Amphitheatrum Naturae (Pan) will transform the remains of a hidden Roman amphitheater into a large public space open to everyone. Architect Attilio Stocchi, who curated the project, told Domus about it.
Bacteria that invent architecture, ordinary beauty, radical archives, explosive magazines, and anti-machines: a selection of books to navigate contemporary design, slow down our gaze, and understand what endures.
Set within the coastal landscape of southern France, Le Corbusier designed this holiday villa for his friend and patron Hélène de Mandrot, blending the Modern Movement with vernacular architecture, rigorous geometries with traditional materials.
A viewing tower among the mangroves acts as a telescope for observing and understanding the forest and the sky, creating a dialogue between science and poetry, architecture and nature.
Residences, stadiums, theaters, and research centers: an itinerary among five buildings completed or announced in 2025 shows how wood is redefining contemporary architecture.
Tiny, sold out, and deliberately imperfect, the Kodak Charmera is a toy camera that works like an accessory — turning lo-fi photography into an everyday gesture.
During the end-of-year festivities, southern Italy offers a busy cultural schedule. From Naples to Catania, passing through Molise and Basilicata, Domus has selected the exhibitions not to be missed during the Christmas holidays.
The London-based firm reveals details of the design that won the international competition for the new medical campus, a state-of-the-art macro-structure with a focus on people and the environment.
An Emily Brontë novel reinterpreted by the director of Saltburn, Spielberg’s new alien film, Tom Cruise in Iñárritu’s dark comedy, and Nolan finally tackling The Odyssey after years: these are just some of the things we will see this year.
Decades before the advent of Instagram, Sottsass lived life with his Leica camera always at the ready. The intimate photos he took with Barbara Radice have resurfaced in an exhibition recounting the pair's thirty-year journey together.
From prefabricated capsules that can be shipped anywhere in the world to tiny apartments in big cities and igloo-shaped residences, this year's selection has it all.
Rirkrit Tiravanija, Janet Cardiff & George Bures Miller as well as Luciano Fabro and Cecilia Vicuña: the 2026-2027 program at the Milanese institution will feature eight exhibitions exploring the “living relationship” between artistic practice and architectural practice.
The December issue of Domus is a story of architecture as a political, cultural, and strategic gesture to preserve Italy’s heritage: from the “tailored restoration” of a Gio Ponti house in Milan to the regeneration of a Roman basilica.
