From Kinder eggs to blind Boxes: how surprise became the product
From the disappearance of toys in snack packages to queues outside Pop Mart stores, the desire to collect has changed shape without disappearing.
At London’s V&A East Museum, architecture learns from Balenciaga
Designed by Irish practice O’Donnell + Tuomey, London’s V&A East Museum opens in April 2026 with an aim to celebrate the identity of East London.
5 unconventional projects still sparking debate
From brutalist supermarkets to churches moved on wheels, 2025 has also been marked by unconventional architecture — places that generated debate while reminding us that experimentation can still exist.
A villa designed by Herzog & de Meuron is for sale on Lake Lugano
It is one of eight residences designed by the renowned Swiss studio to immerse itself in the coastal landscape, offering a perceptual experience shaped by volumetric erosions, visual trajectories, and chiaroscuro effects.
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The most anticipated buildings of 2026, from the new Guggenheim to the Sagrada Família
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.
How cinema rebuilt the Shakers’ world, the spiritual roots of modern design
Samuel Bader, production designer of The Testament of Ann Lee, recounts how the Shakers’ universe was constructed for the film—the religious sect that became a design myth, now arriving in cinemas.
90 years of Artek: Alvar Aalto’s Stool 60 and the origins of Nordic design
Founded in 1935 in Helsinki by Alvar and Aino Aalto, Maire Gullichsen, and Nils-Gustav Hahl, Artek was born from an insight: to unite art and technology in the service of good living.
BIG explains what Bhutan’s new city will be like: modular, open, for one million people
In the Himalayan kingdom, an ambitious master plan and a new airport test the idea of development based on Gross National Happiness. Domus spoke about it with Giulia Frittoli and Frederik Lyng, partners at BIG.
World’s first Mercedes-Benz branded city to be built in Dubai
Following the success of Mercedes-Benz Places Dubai, the German brand signs its first master-planned development with Binghatti Developers.
This is the most beautiful museum in the world
The Kunstsilo in Kristiansand, located on Norway’s southern coast, has won the “World Title” for museums at the prestigious 2025 Prix Versailles.
Against the usual photos: three new unconventional cameras
In an era dominated by smartphones and AI, between digital half-frame cameras, analog comebacks, and unusual formats, three cameras that rethink the very idea of taking photographs.
IKEA’s new smartphone charger looks like a doughnut
In addition to wireless charging, it also works as a handy grip designed to protect your phone from accidental drops.
Architecture and design exhibitions you need to see in 2026
From London to Hong Kong, from Milan to Paris, all the way to New York: group exhibitions, retrospectives, and events not to be missed in 2026 to understand what is going on in the international architecture and design scene.
What the museum conceived by George Lucas and designed by MAD will look like
Designed by the studio of Domus Guest Editor Ma Yansong and founded by George Lucas and Mellody Hobson, the museum dedicated to visual and literary storytelling is entering the final phase of construction at Exposition Park
From the Pritzker Prize to the Venice Biennale: 5 projects to understand Wang Shu and Lu Wenyu
Wang Shu and Lu Wenyu have been chosen to lead the next biennial in 2027. Together, they founded the Amateur Architecture studio: here is a selection of their most interesting projects.
The 2025 articles you should read if you haven’t already
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.
One of the most fascinating artworks around is created by recording mountain sounds
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.
Madame Justice
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.
MVRDV will redesign the GAM, one of Turin’s most important museums
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.
Beyond the “small vase”: ceramics today, Middle Ages to 3D printing via Sottsass
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.
The most astonishing architect-designed homes for sale in 2025
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.
Designed by Startup Architettura, this Ligurian apartment resembles an art gallery that you can live in
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.
When Braque’s Cubism becomes an audio speaker
The Swedish design studio Nocs presents a new series of active audio speakers that turn the visual language of Cubism into three-dimensional objects, with technical specifications designed for audiophiles.
In London, you can see David Shrigley’s Christmas tree projected onto Battersea
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.
These smartphone photos won Oppo’s 2025 Photography Award
The winning images have been picked among 2 million submissions coming from 87 different countries. All pictures were shot on Oppo or OnePlus devices.
Rome’s new metro stations have opened—and they are unique in the world
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 best renovations of 2025
Between completed restorations, unrealized projects, and evolving heritage, renovations reveal better than anything else where global architecture is heading today.
Designing the face in the age of computational imagery and Botox Bars
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.
Barri Studio’s apartment in Barcelona reinterprets the Venetian terrazzo, indoors
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.
The manifesto house by Lacaton & Vassal is for sale
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.
Meet Hito Steyerl, the artist behind one of the most powerful exhibitions around
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.
An entire continent is shaping its future around design
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.