Designed in 1956, Spalter turned a simple household appliance into an extension of the body. Nearly seventy years later, its vision of the relationship between people and technology feels remarkably contemporary.
It is not just a virtual object that appeared in “007 First Light”: the new Seamaster Diver 300M Chronograph 007 First Light actually exists and can be purchased for 9,200 euros.
From Berlin’s Mäusebunker to Toronto’s Ontario Science Centre, via London and Boston: amid decay, social stigma, environmental costs, and adaptive reuse, the fate of Brutalism is redefining the very meaning of architectural preservation.
Materials, processes and products for responsible design
OMA’s first completed project in Turkey transforms the historic spaces of the former imperial arsenal on the Golden Horn into a luxury department store as part of one of Istanbul’s most ambitious urban regeneration programmes.
You can share your work through the function by Domus where you can upload your architecture, design, interior, graphics, illustration, photography and art projects.
Recycled paper, demolished villages, post-earthquake rubble and disused shipping containers: five projects show how waste can be transformed into a creative, economic and cultural resource.
From Diane Keaton to David Lynch and Martin Margiela: auctions, archives, and personal objects show how an artist’s cultural legacy today increasingly passes through the spaces they inhabited, collected, and preserved.
For more than a decade, augmented reality in museums has often remained a limited add-on. At Adi Design Museum, however, Musa is a new interactive digital avatar that accompanies visitors through the Compasso d’Oro Collection, answers questions, and suggests personalized routes.
The Milanese fashion house and Axiom Space have developed the new system that regulates astronauts’ temperature, breathing, and comfort during future Artemis missions. It will be worn beneath the NASA spacesuit for the next lunar landing, scheduled for 2028.
Dancing in a neogothic Ohio prison, in a two-thousand-year-old Roman quarry, or inside a socialist Hungarian power plant: ten summer festivals where the location matters just as much as the line-up.
At the Conciergerie Contemporary Art Center, the exhibition “Double Double” reinterprets NBA imagery through 17 large-format works, connecting sports worship, collective memory, and sacred iconography.
Created by a Danish entrepreneur tired of tearing out tiled surfaces every time he moved, Click’n Tile turns wall tiles into a modular system that can be installed, removed, and reused.
From the projects of Oma, Snøhetta and Mvrdv to Heneghan Peng's Giza, in the June issue of Domus architecture is not an aesthetic decoration, but a moral infrastructure that has “the courage to show up”
More than a presidential library, a civic campus on Chicago’s South Side. Interweaving a museum, auditorium, sports facilities, gardens and public spaces, the Obama Presidential Center aims to transform political memory into a place of participation and encounter.
In Bordeaux, La Vallée Verte turns the inner courtyard of a housing block into a planted crater: an artificial valley that brings light, biodiversity and spectacle into collective living.
With a top speed of 350 km/h and 1,001 hp, the limited-edition model serves as a manifesto for Audi’s next generation of cars, introducing a design language that is more futuristic, restrained and technology-driven.
In the Gerusalemme neighbourhood, an apartment has been transformed by removing unnecessary partitions and creating a more fluid and functional layout, with colour, graphic design and bespoke furnishings playing a key role.
Created for the exhibition “Clair-obscur”, Fujiko Nakaya’s new fog sculpture envelops the rotunda of the Bourse de Commerce – Pinault Collection, redefining the boundaries of architecture through an artificial cloud of water vapour.
From robotics to sustainability, with a focus on durability: how stone has returned to the forefront of contemporary design, amidst new opportunities and unresolved issues.
Smartphone cases, travel gear, and a special edition Tamagotchi are part of a capsule that revives the 90s digital aesthetic, marketed at nostalgic millennials and gen-zers alike.
Designed by Lombardini22 within the Mi.Co Nord district of FieramilanoCity, the new Rai Production Centre will bring together offices, television and radio studios in an infrastructure conceived to open a historically enclosed area back up to the city.
Just installed in the garden of the Serpentine Gallery, the new Pavilion is explained by its designers Isabel Abascal and Alessandro Arienzo: a device for observing the site, understanding how things are built, and rediscovering architecture as an elemental experience.
The architect behind Habitat 67 and Singapore’s Marina Bay Sands returns to the Arkansas museum he designed in 2011, adding more than 10,000 square metres of galleries and public spaces while preserving its original relationship with the Ozark landscape.
With the renovation and extension of a facility that accommodates children undergoing cancer therapy, ALA.rquitectos explores the most vulnerable aspects of living, transforming a care setting into a place of comfort and belonging.
In the editorial of the June issue of Domus, Ma Yansong questions the bias against viral architecture: online dissemination and photographic filters do not compromise the truth of the built environment, but celebrate its aesthetic diversity by bringing it closer to everydaylife.
After Stefano Boeri’s eight-year presidency, Triennale Milano opens a new phase with Vincenzo Trione at the helm, Maria Porro as vice president, and a renewed CDA. Carla Morogallo is confirmed as Director General.
Before the Bosco Verticale became the global icon of green architecture, Luciano Pia was designing 25 Verde in Torino – a condominium where trees, soil, terraces, and microclimate are not mere decoration, but an integral part of the building itself. It now opens for Open House Torino 2026.
Reon Pocket Pro is a wearable personal air conditioner that sits behind the neck and uses sensors and AI to adjust cooling to environmental conditions.
In 2022, the great thinker of complexity, who has left us at the age of 104, shared with Domus his vision of the interdependent relationship between city and countryside, one that could regain balance through solidarity and responsibility.
With Prism, its first completed project in the Chinese city, OMA brings together hotel, residential lofts, offices and public spaces in a pyramidal volume conceived as a vertical village for Hangzhou’s emerging tech economy.
A trip to the coast can also be an opportunity to explore the world of contemporary art. Here are ten unmissable exhibitions along the Mediterranean coast, from Gibellina and Stromboli to the Balearic Islands, Provence and the EMST in Athens.
Pratic’s headquarters in Fagagna, designed by Geza, uses shadow, landscape and the unfinished to transform an industrial complex into an architecture that engages in dialogue with its surroundings.
What happens when the spaces that are meant to orient, protect and shelter us stop doing so? In contemporary art, architecture has become a privileged site for giving shape to anxiety, transforming houses, interiors and built environments into mirrors of the vulnerabilities of the present.
