IKEA opens Italy's first XS Store in Fiumicino, near Rome
On the occasion of the new opening, IKEA will provide the furnishings to the halfway house “Santa Maria degli Angeli” for the homeless people present on the territory.
“Catching desire by the tail”: the Palladium club in New York
Arata Isozaki, Jean Michel Basquiat, Francesco Clemente and Keith Haring: an art-architecture dream team put their names on the New York club heir to Studio 54, presented on Domus in 1985.
According to Skytrax, these are the best airports in the world
Singapore’s Changi Airport leads the top 10. Doha International Airport, Tokyo’s Haneda Airport and several European airports, including Paris, Madrid and Zurich, are also in the top 10.
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Swiss cities by train, between nature and culture
Urban life and nature lovers can easily reach the main Swiss cities by train from Italy. Thanks to a joint promotion by Trenitalia and the Swiss Federal Railways, if you travel as a couple you only pay for one of the two 1st or 2nd class tickets. The offer, valid from 9 March to 16 April, connects the main cities of Northern Italy with various Swiss centres.
Tadao Ando to design this year’s MPavilion: his first project in Australia
The pavilion is still top secret, but Ando promises that it will leave an indelible memory in people’s hearts.
A Japanese house designed as a vertical progression towards the sky
Made up of apparently autonomous parts, this architecture encloses interconnected spaces and generating a multiplicity of different relationships with the context.
Twenty-five towers to combat sandstorms in Dubai
In the desert climate of the United Arab Emirates, sculptural skyscrapers could provide a sustainable structural solution to sandstorms, while clearing the air.
Social networks are going paywall
Twitter, Meta and others are fighting the mid-life crisis by asking users for money. Even TikTok – the best-performing social network right now – has launched a paid subscription. Here's why.
In Portugal, a monolithic house dematerialising towards the interior
A home in a traffic-congested context closes outwards to protect domestic intimacy while opening up in an uninterrupted dialogue with the inner garden.
Peter Zumthor’s thermal baths in Vals, “a monument of European architectural history”
Stone, light and water: the elements of a project that would soon become a reference for entire generations of architectural designers, presented on Domus in 1997.
Mecanoo’s villa as a design object in the Dutch landscape
The tile cladding of villa BW reinterprets the colors and reflections of the surrounding polders, opening to a dialogue between artifacts and nature.
Steven Holl and Toshiko Mori, Guest Editors 2023
A “couple-not-couple” of extremely different architects, will lead the magazine next year.
A hotel in Verona entirely dedicated to street art
To create the Muraless Art Hotel, which mixes hôtellerie with street art, more than 50 internationally renowned artists were involved, who have brought the former Hotel Cristallo back to life.
The suitcase that turns into a refugee shelter
Designed by Maawa X, it can expand 16 times creating a volume of more than 3.5 cubic meters.
The first green museum in Greece, where Plato's Academy was located
Athenian firm Tsolakis Architects will design a new archaeological museum, largely underground, in the park that once housed the famous philosophical school.
The new Net Lounge by Nardi: an experience of total relaxation
Designed by Raffaello Galiotto, art director of Nardi, the chair adapts to various outdoor spaces: from the pool to the terrace. It will be the protagonist at the next Fuorisalone.
11 Italian motels, from petrol fill-ups to forbidden adventures
Let’s briefly review the history of a famous accommodation type imported from the United States that, from the 1950s to the present, has connoted road landscapes and socio-cultural habits of the Belpaese.