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Dilna Hammer, Insect Hotels, 2017

Insect Hotel

The Insect Hotels by Dilna Hammer have been specifically designed to contrast the alarming disappearance of primal impollinators such as solitary bees.  

Cesare Leonardi, 2012, foto di Joseph Nemeth

The architecture of life

The Galleria Civica di Modena presents is the first comprehensive retrospective dedicated to Cesare Leonardi, an eclectic figure in the architectural and contemporary art world.

Cauleen Smith, <i>Remote Viewing (lm still)</i>, 2009 Digital video, 14:00 minutes

Singing Stones

Exhibited in one of the Chicago’s architectural mastepieces, the exhibition promoted by Palais de Tokyo explores the relationship between art and architecture.

Puck Dieben, Dressed cabinet for Vij5, 2017

Dressed Cabinets

The new cabinet series by Puck Dieben was inspired by the designer’s childhood memories, when she used to build huts by hanging linen and towels from the bed’s structure.

Bertesina courtyard

The use of innovative building methods and adaptive reuse allowed traverso-vighy architetti in Vicenza, Italy, to realise a sustainable, socially engaged and energy efficient project.

Laurel Hwang, Plier wall, 2017

Plier wall

Taiwanese young designer Laurel Hwang conceived a flexible piece of furniture for open spaces and offices that transforms itself from a translucent wall to a stand up table.

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AREP, Lorient-Bretagne Sud Railway Station, Lorient, France, 2017

Lorient Railway Station

A fibre-reinforced concrete double skin covers the main facade of the new Lorient-Bretagne Sud Railway Station, which have been designed by French studio AREP.

Blackhorse Workshop and Ehk!, Sideshow, London, 2017

Sideshow

The marble run conceived by Blackhorse Workshop and Ehk! incorporates over two hundred steel ball bearings, weaving its way around the site through disused bus parts.

Jo Nagasaka, Flat Table, 2017

Flat table

Jo Nagasaka continues his ongoing research and excercise on epoxy shades and old tables: hues are less saturated and strong allowing the natural shades to emerge.

Bornstein Lyckefors arkitekter, House for a drummer, Kärna, Sweden, 2016

House for a drummer

Inspired by Swedish warehouses, the house designed by Bornstein Lyckefors arkitekter is painted in traditional Swedish Falu-Red colour and features plywood built-in furniture.

Pablo López Luz, San Diego County – Tijuana IX, USA-Mexico border, 2015

US-Mexico border

The Los Angeles CAFAM museum will host the work of over 40 contemporary artists and designers who have lived the border’s culture, long before Trump.

Diébédo Francis Kéré, Serpentine Pavilion 2017, Kensington Gardens. Photo Iwan Baan

What home for man?

The paradigm of the reflections, research and projects put forward in the latest issue of Domus Green is representative of the extraordinary transformations currently taking place and the many open questions regarding our short-term future.

Dominique Perrault Architectes, Groundscape fictions - Seoul image © DPA

Groundscape eXPerience

The installation by EPFL and Ewha students at the Seoul Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism shows 28 experiments that disclose the possibilities of underground design.

"Lynn Davis: On Ice", veduta della mostra, The Glass House, New Canaan, 2017

On Ice

On show at The Glass House, in New Canaan, “Lynn Davis: On Ice” presents a selection of photographs from the artist’s longstanding engagement with the icebergs.

Studio Drift, Tree of Ténéré, Burning Man 2017

Tree of Ténéré

Studio Drift celebrated its tenth year participating to a collective installation conceived by Zachary Smith at the Burning Man 2017: like the Tree of Ténéré, also this one ‘bloomed’ in the desert.

Nishizawa Architects, House in Chau Doc, Vietnam, 2017

House in Chau Doc

Preserving regional customs, life-style and spirit, Vietnamese studio Nishizawa Architect designed an half-outdoor and contemporary residence in Chau Doc, Vietnam.

Ray Eames posing with a cat photograph, December 1970. © Eames Office LLC

Play Parade

The first exhibition by the Vitra Design Museum especially conceived for children and families, “Play Parade” demonstrates how seriously Charles and Ray Eames regarded their work with toys.

EVA architecten, De drukkerij, Nijmegen, the Netherlands, 2016

De drukkerij

In Nijmegen, the Netherlands, EVA architecten has renovated a printing works from the 1930’s, with a new part around it, clearly showing what is old and what is new.

50 museums to visit in a lifetime

A global journey in search of the museums that made history, through nearly a century of the Domus archive.

Topotek1 + BIG + Superflex, Superkilen, urban planning, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2012. Photo Iwan Baan

Infidélités créatives

The arc en rêve centre d’architecture in Bordeaux presents an exhibition about the landscape design studio Topotek1, whose work blends architecture, urban design, art, and design.

A61architects & YYdesign, Landform house, Tyumen region, Russia, 2016

Landform house

Designed by A61architects & YYdesign, a residential building in Russia was intended as dialogue between architecture and landscape, emphasizing the cascading space inside the house.

Ola Giertz Designstudio, NeverEnding table, 2017

NeverEnding Table

During Dutch Design Week 2017 Swedish design studio Ola Giertz will showcase a small side table made with molded ash veneers that represent an infinite circle.

Denis Esakov, the Fifth Facade. Natalya Sats Musical Theatre, architect A.A. Velikanov et al, 1975–1979

Spying on Moscow

Shoot with a drone, the series by Russian photographer Denis Esakov recounts Moscow’s buildings with the view that only architects have with their models: the Fifth Facade.

"Scenographies of power: from the state of exception to the spaces of exception", exhibition view, La Casa Encendida, Madrid, 2017

Scenographies of Power

“Scenographies of Power”, on show at La Casa Encendida, Madrid, reveals how in the spatial materializations of the exception, the aesthetic becomes political.