Mario Botta’s monumental villa is for sale North of Milan
Built at the turn of the millennium, the villa has all the unmistakable characteristics of projects designed by the Ticino-born architect.
The fate of the Tree of Life, icon of Expo 2015 in Milan
The strange story of how Milan lost sight of (and then forgot) the 37-meter-tall giant that had enchanted 14 million visitors at Expo 2015 with its light, water, and music shows.
If you’re into architecture, don’t miss these 3 things at Terraforma Exo 2025
The festival returns this June to the heart of Milan, in Parco Sempione and at Triennale, confirming itself as an open observatory on the relationship between architecture, sound, and music.
Concrete, tiles, and industrial design transform a house in Santander into a contemporary open space
Restored by Bian Office, the apartment overlooks the Spanish city’s bay and features a new organization of spaces and an eccentric choice of finishes and colors that bring a contemporary lifestyle to the interior.
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Teenage Engineering’s first electric scooter: from synth legends to city streets
The Swedish brand, renowned for its musical instruments, has launched an electric moped in collaboration with Vässla. EPA-1 is sleek and stylish, and costs less than some of the company’s synthesizers.
The island of San Giorgio, where Jeff Bezos will (perhaps) get married in Venice
The island of San Giorgio Maggiore is at the center of the international scene: with its Renaissance masterpieces and contemporary architecture, it is now one of the symbols of Venetian excellence, and is rumored to be the setting for the wedding of Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sanchez.
An old farm in Austria was transformed into a home, bridging historical memory and contemporary design
Moser und Hager Architects' project inserts a new wood and glass volume between the historic walls of a rural building, rethinking its life and connection to the landscape.
Desert Rock is a resort carved into a Saudi mountain
As part of the Red Sea Project — Saudi Arabia's plan to repopulate the territory overlooking the Red Sea — Desert Rock is a resort nestled among the rocks that aims to promote environmental enhancement and sustainability.
Yves Saint Laurent’s Morocco: tracing the places of a lasting love
In 1966, Yves Saint Laurent and his partner Pierre Bergé discovered Morocco and fell in love with the country. Marrakech became a creative refuge and source of inspiration, marking the beginning of a bond that would forever shape his life and artistic vision.
Dubai to host a $19 billion replica of Milan
With Azizi Milan, Dubai takes another step toward becoming a city increasingly fragmented into thematic and hybrid micro-worlds, blending global aesthetics, luxury, and functional experimentation.
The new Yashica digital camera is so “analog” it simulates film winding
The legendary Japanese brand, now based in Hong Kong, is launching the FX-D series, a model inspired in its design by a Yashica from the 1980s and equipped with a curious manual lever that must be operated before every shot.
Cars banned: Zurich’s new tunnel marks “a historic moment for urban cycling”
Zurich’s new Stadttunnel, half a kilometer long and costing just over 40 million euros, offers an underground connection exclusively for bicycles and light electric vehicles.
12 Space-Age cars that took design to another planet
The wave of excitement sparked by the space race in the 1950s had a profound impact on car design and engineering. Here are some concept cars that foresaw the future.
Severance: the design of the workplace as a masterpiece of alienation
The American series, now in its second season, transforms office work into a dark parallel world—one that design has the power to make as seductive as it is dehumanizing.
In China, a train station has been taken over by nature and turned into a park
In Yancheng, a former railway station becomes part of an urban park and wetland museum, between infrastructural memory and new public uses.
Living in 53 square metres: Studio KIWI’s response to Milan’s housing challenge
Studio KIWI has reinterpreted the layout of a small Milanese apartment, eliminating the fragmentation of previous interventions and focusing on the efficiency of a central block containing all the services.
5 office furnishings (and one object) we’d like to see in our homes
Home and office don’t have much in common — or at least, they shouldn’t. But some designs, from Mies van der Rohe to Sapper and Enzo Mari, show us how the two worlds can communicate positively.
The highest 3D printed tower in the world rises in the Swiss Alps
In a tiny alpine village, computational technology and digital fabrication deliver a “record-breaking” architecture that marks a pioneering step in global construction practice.
The Cannero castles on the islands of Lake Maggiore were ruins — now they are being reborn as a museum
We spoke with Simonetti Architettura, the firm that transformed the ancient Borromeo fortresses into an open-air museum, in collaboration with Dotdotdot. This project rejects sensationalism and instead listens to the passage of time.
The world's largest archaeological museum will open this year: opening date revealed
In preparation for almost a decade, the Grand Egyptian Museum has already opened 12 rooms on a trial basis. Finally, the official opening date has been revealed: 3 July 2025.
Vitra and Rimowa have designed a trolley that is also a stool
The Aluminium Stoolexpected to be launched in Art Basel, will be available in 1,000 pieces.
Overtourism: are we traveling just to recreate Instagram photos?
Mass tourism is a problem that does not arise solely from numbers, but from a shared imagination: this is how social media and viral content have redrawn the maps of tourist desire.
In Paris, an attic space is reinvented in a two-storey apartment
By eliminating a central staircase and doubling it to provide separate access to two bedrooms, studio Abaco has created an enhanced and unprecedented livability inside a historic interior.
VanMoof is back from the dead with two new electric bikes
The Dutch electric bike manufacturer, which was bought out of bankruptcy in 2024, is now launching the S6 and S6 Open. They look just like all the other VanMoof bikes from the past, but the brand's major issues regard consumer trust.
You can now visit a landmark Richard Neutra house in Hollywood
The experimental house-gallery that the modernist maestro designed in Los Angeles for Galka Scheyer – collector of Kandinsky and Klee – will become a space for artist residencies and public events.
Serpentine x Lego: Peter Cook designs a pavilion made entirely of lego bricks
The immersive pavilion designed by the Archigram architect was inaugurated by the Serpentine Gallery in Kensington Gardens, in conjunction with World Play Game.
Office design according to Park Associati: retrofitting, deconstruction, and environment
As work habits evolve and social transformations unfold, we asked Michele Rossi and Filippo Pagliani, the founders of Park Associati, about the direction of office design today, starting from Milan.
How did Adidas pet collection become a success?
The brand’s new capsule collection, which reimagines some of its classics in pet-friendly versions, taps into the unique bond between Gen Z and their pets, rewriting the rules of streetwear.
The first robot vacuum cleaner from DJI, the best-known drone brand
The Chinese manufacturer of camera drones and video equipment will introduce its first home appliance, in a surprising shift from the skies to the floor.
A villa designed by BBPR on Varese Lake is for sale
Designed by the Torre Velasca studio in 1961, this villa by Belgiojoso, Peressutti and Rogers is little known, but is a testament to their work in residential design.
A case that rethinks the iPad, thanks to its detachable magnetic keyboard
Logitech’s new Flip Folio was designed to be versatile, without entirely losing sight of productivity.
Massimo Osti: how the founder of Stone Island reshaped fashion
The visionary world of Osti, who passed away in 2005 and also launched C.P. Company, comes back to life in an exhibition tracing his career — twenty years after his passing — through punk cutouts, sartorial experiments, electric cars… and Lucio Dalla.